Alliance to Save Energy Provides Consumer, Media Resources For Earth Day, Tax Day and Beyond; Challenges Americans to Take '6° Challenge'

Washington, DC, March 29, 2007–As thoughts turn to April tax filing deadlines, Earth Day April 22, and spring home improvements – while consumers also cope with high home and vehicle energy prices – the Alliance to Save Energy offers extensive print and Web resources to help consumers reduce their energy bills, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions, AND get a federal tax credit, too.

To help consumers become more "Energy $avvy," the Alliance offers helpful money- and energy-saving tips, information, and resources for consumers, kids, and educators for Earth Day 2007 and beyond:

• Alliance consumer website. Best selection of Tips to Lower Your Energy Bills and resources, from no-cost/low-cost tips and summer tips to operating your home office more energy efficiently and making energy-efficient home improvements.
• Home and vehicle energy-efficiency federal tax credit information in English and Spanish. The Department of Energy/Alliance to Save Energy consumer tax credit website provides detailed information in both English and Spanish. Unless extended by Congress, the tax credits expire December 31, 2007.
• Test your 'Energy IQ,' take the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge, and encourage your friends to do the same at www.sixdegreechallenge.org.
• Fun and learning for kids. Become an "Energy Hog Buster" at www.energyhog.org, which offers its fun games and learning experiences.
• Energy lesson plans for K-12 teachers. 

The unique "6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge" website www.sixdegreechallenge.org, created by the Alliance and 30+ diverse profit and nonprofit Power is in Your Hands campaign partners, demonstrates how our energy waste affects six key aspects of our lives – the energy prices we pay at the pumps and in our homes, our home comfort, the air we breathe and our respiratory health, our energy security, our economic well-being, and the world we leave behind.

It encourages increased energy-efficiency actions through the multiplier affect – because even small actions by large numbers of people add up to significant benefits for all of us.