It doesn't matter how young or old you are - if you can read this, you can help your parents reduce home energy use and therefore reduce their energy bills. Why should you care? It leaves more money to buy things that you and your family need. And it reduces pollution and helps the environment.
Check out stories written for kids by kids participating in the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools program — Green Schools Gazette.
Help your parents reduce their energy bills (so they can have more money to spend on other things!) by conducting a home energy audit or a home energy scavenger hunt, or take a family home energy quiz.
Imagine you are a Super Hero or Super Heroine with energy-saving Super Powers. Who would you be? And what would your energy-saving Super Powers be? Provide your thoughts after entering a "top-secret" web site where scientists are conducting experiments on Super Heroes to test their energy-saving Super Powers. You can help them by clicking help at www.projectsuperpowers.com
Check out what other kids are doing to save energy through the Alliance to Save Energy's Green Schools Program in California, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, and even Serbia! See what kids have already done in schools which have "graduated" — in California, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, Ghana, and India — 75 schools in a dozen programs.
You'll enjoy the animated features below, starting with "Did You Know?"
You'll be surprised by what you didn't know about energy when you view these short, animated videos or stills to music. They can also be used on TV as TV bumpers.
ENERGY STAR refrigerators, clothes washers, and compact fluorescent torchieres take on the competition.
Help Frank get rid of pollution surrounding his house by upgrading to ENERGY STAR appliances, windows.
