JN| LEARN MORE AT
energystar.gov
ENERGY STAR®, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
program, helps us all save money and protect our environment
through energy efficient products and practices. For more
information, visit www.energystar.gov.
Join the ENERGY STAR® Change a Light, Change the World Campaign
Opportunities for the Hospitality Industry
Campaign Overview
The ENERGY STAR Change a Light, Change the World Campaign is a national call-to-action to
encourage every individual to help change the world, one light — one energy-saving step — at a time,
October 3, 2007 is National ENERGY STAR Change a Light Day and serves to rally Americans around
this call-to-action and launch activities nationwide. Organizations across the country help mark this day
with events, local leader proclamations, and store promotions around energy-efficient lighting - and do
educational outreach throughout the year.
At the campaign's heart is the ENERGY STAR Change a Light Pledge found at
www.enerqvstar.aov/chanaealight. The online pledge is a simple step anyone can take to join a
growing community committed to save energy and help fight global climate change. Americans in
every U.S. state and territory have already pledged to replace more than 1 million lights collectively
with ones that have earned the government's ENERGY STAR for energy efficiency!
Join the Movement!
Companies and organizations wishing to participate in this campaign can access information and free
materials from www.energystar.gov/ioinCAL. Organizations can go further by becoming pledge
drivers, setting a pledge goal and promoting planned activities to make their commitment known
publicly by others. While many materials are already available on-
line, organizations joining as pledge drivers get a customized page
to track their progress on reaching their pledge goal.
Hospitality partners can:
•	Use this ready-made platform to inspire employees and guests
to save energy and help fight global warming
•	Use the pledge to track your community's energy and
environmental savings and promote the impact
•	Access free templates, artwork, and ready-to-go event
materials to promote the campaign and your involvement
•	Send in a snapshot of a campaign event or activity and
potentially have it featured on the main campaign Web pages
Suggested Activities for Hospitality Companies
•	Use the campaign to inspire employees to save energy and improve the environment and to
highlight how your company is already making strides to save energy
•	Inspire pledges via posters, email, bulletin, newsletter, events & outreach (see the
numerous resources available via the ENERGY STAR Web site)
o Add a link to the pledge from your Web site
•	Consider incorporating a message and/or activity into your other environmental efforts (like
saving water)
PLEDGE COMPETITION:
Interested in leading a pledge
competition or simply tracking the
pledge progress among your hotel
facilities, corporate divisions, or
other subset of your company?
Sign up as an 'umbrella' pledge
driver and invite groups to sign up
as 'members' of your pledge
driver group. To learn more and
sign up, use the contact
information below!

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JN LEARN MORE AT
energystar.gov
ENERGY STAR®, a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
program, helps us all save money and protect our environment
through energy efficient products and practices. For more
information, visit www.energystar.gov.
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o Include the information on your Web site, on in-room tent cards, brochures at the
reception desk, etc.
•	Allow free use of the business office computer for guests to take the pledge
o Make it the "home page" on a designated computer throughout your campaign or
on October 3, 2007
•	Sign up as a pledge driver and get credit and recognition for motivating your employees and
guests to take the pledge
o Pledge drivers set a goal of 100 or more pledges
•	Report back to employees, guests, and shareholders, if applicable, on how many
greenhouse gas emissions were prevented through your participation as a pledge driver
ENERGY STAR Qualified Lighting and Our Environment
•	Most of the electricity in our country is still generated by burning fossil fuels, which releases
greenhouse gas emissions into our atmosphere,
•	Lighting accounts for 20 percent of the average home's electric bill and it's one of the
easiest places to save energy. Simple steps such as changing a light at home can save on
energy bills while also helping to reduce the risks of global warming,
•	Energy-efficient lighting products offer warm, bright light with the added benefit of using 75%
less energy than standard bulbs and fixtures, and lasting up to 10 times longer.
•	If every American home replaced just one light bulb or fixture with an ENERGY STAR, every
year we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes, more than $600
million in energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more
than 800,000 cars!
TO JOIN: Visit www.erieravstar.aov/ioinCAL and click on 'Become a pledge driver.' Contact Jessica
Steiner, contractor to ENERGY STAR, with questions at (703) 247-6168 /
changealight@cadmusgroup.com.

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