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Shipyard Limited, Gujarat and ended on east coast – Hinudustan Shipyard
Limited, Visakhapatnam on March 13, 2010 at 8.30 am, with the message “
Save plant to save earth” which is today’s most important requirement to
protect our earth from GLOBAL WARMING. On his way, he visited schools and
colleges to promote ‘Save Plants to Save Life /Earth’. He covered a total distance
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HI Friend came across this intersting article , and the wonderful effect of word-of-mouth advertising system....
and
i wish even indian cities towns and villages can also take some
inspiration from this small village in hawaii ... and improve our life
and our environment.The small island community switches over from incandescent light bulbs to more efficient bulbs through the power of suggestion.
The
7,400 people living on the island of Molokai share a special bond.
That was the sense Francois Rogers got during his many visits to the
small island.
As special project director
of The Blue Planet Foundation, Rogers depended on the fact that these
people talk to each other and influence each other through
word-of-mouth recommendations.
That's why Blue Planet's program, Go Green & Carbon Clean,
was successful. On the most fundamental level, one inefficient light
bulb was exchanged for a more efficient one through the power of
suggestion.
Let's face it: you're more likely to do something if your neighbor is doing it, said Rogers.
The
island has one of the priciest electricity rates in the nation, with
electricity costs soaring at $0.37/kWh. That's why switching out
incandescent light bulbs for compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) was a
big deal to this community — one that ultimately will save $6.5
million and eliminate the need to import 24,000 barrels of oil.
The
residents save $200 per swap, based on the life of the bulb. Do that
calculation during this three-month engagement with the community and
this translates to a savings of 17 gigawatt-hours of electricity.
What's more, it prevents more than 16,000 tons of carbon dioxide from
ever being emitted.
"They worked together
towards one common goal," said Rogers. "This island struggles with
water shortages and simple lack of funding on every level. By working
on energy, they can now use that money for education or other issues."
Rogers
sees Molokai as a role model for other places. Students and community
leaders put in more than 200 volunteer hours: 5th graders and senior
citizens alike put in their time. "The leg work was done by the
community," Rogers said.
Certainly, having
the kids nag their elders helped even the most stubborn to change
behavior. Word-of-mouth with a little bit of peer pressure thrown in
for good measure was enough to penetrate the community.
In three months, 36,000 incandescent light bulbs were replaced with ENERGY STAR CFL light bulbs.
Based
on a survey from 300 homes, 60% of participants exchanged bulbs and
reported a decrease in their energy bill (about $10 a month). Each
participant swapped an average of 15 bulbs. Nearly 90% of the
participants felt that the program was effective.
"They
are tight and they talk to each other. We hardly advertised — maybe we
put one ad in the local paper," he said. Blue Planet wanted to show
how one small change can make a huge difference. Citing the 2008
McKinsey and Company study that identified residential lights as the
most cost-effective way of cutting energy costs, the CFL project was
born.
In truth, Hawaii has been pondering
life after oil for the past couple of years to kick its oil addiction.
The U.S. Department of Energy and the State of Hawaii established The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative to set a goal for the state to use 70% clean energy by 2030.
Howard
Wiig, energy analyst at Strategic Industries Division, said, "It's
going well. Blue Planet wants to make Hawaii as energy efficient as
possible. The prices of electricity on Molokai are incredibly high and
you couple that with the fact that most of the people on the island are
low income — the cost of living is high. That's what makes Molokai an
excellent pilot project."
Every action that we take is a step towards that goal, Wiig said.
"We
have a whole bunch of demonstration projects. We want to show builders
that you can be extremely efficient in a cost-effective manner. And a
lot of people are offering us demos on LED lights, indoor and outdoor.
This will reduce outdoor lighting by 50 percent," Wiig said.
