The Alliance to Save Energy Launches National '6 Degrees of Energy Efficiency Challenge'

The Alliance to Save Energy Launches 6 Degrees of Energy Efficiency Challenge, a Web site to promote energy-efficiency and decrease wasteful energy use.

Washington, DC (PRWEB) November 21, 2006 - To demonstrate the important connections between our individual energy use and the world's environment, economy and security, the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Gas Association (AGA), The Dow Chemical Company Inc., and 29 additional Power is in Your Hands partners launched the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge, a viral Web site to promote energy-efficiency and encourage your family and friends to decrease wasteful energy use.

We are proud to support the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge because it demonstrates that each person's energy use has a much wider impact. By linking us all together, we help turn small steps into big change.

From the inner-city of our nation's capital, to the small Midwestern suburbs, families across the nation continue to struggle with rising energy bills. Average U.S. households will pay nearly $5,000 to power their homes and vehicles this year -- 32 percent greater than just two years ago. In fact, the Energy Information Administration estimates that America's families will spend an average of $902 on heating their homes this winter.

Even as consumer pocketbooks are hit hard by these huge costs, all of that energy use -- much of it wasteful -- is also affecting the well-being of our families, our communities, our states, our country, and ultimately our world. Taking the challenge is easy to do on the interactive 6° Challenge Web site, www.sixdegreechallenge.org. With a simple click of a mouse, the Web site will:

-- Explain how increasing and wasteful energy use affects six key areas of our lives -- the energy prices we pay at the pump 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.

-- Provide visitors with six easy energy-efficiency tips that they can implement in their own homes and vehicles.

-- Challenge visitors to take at least one of those six easy steps to become more energy efficient.

-- Provide money-saving coupons for energy-efficient products.

-- Encourage visitors to challenge up to six friends and family members to become part of a global community by taking the Challenge and sharing their stories.

"Natural gas utilities want households to know there are plenty of simple steps they can take to lower their home heating bills this winter, from adding weather-stripping, to checking the efficiency of their furnaces, or spreading out their winter bills by signing up with their local utility for a level-payment program. 'Six Degrees of Energy Efficiency' truly does put the power in the hands of the consumer," said David N. Parker, President and CEO of AGA. "Natural gas utilities are proud to be a part of this campaign."

"Every consumer has a part to play in energy efficiency," said Peter Molinaro, vice president of government affairs for Dow Chemical. "We are proud to support the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge because it demonstrates that each person's energy use has a much wider impact. By linking us all together, we help turn small steps into big change."

About the Alliance to Save Energy

The Alliance to Save Energy is a coalition of prominent business, government, environmental, and consumer leaders who promote the efficient and clean use of energy worldwide to benefit consumers, the environment, economy, and national security.

The Power is in Your Hands campaign is designed to arm consumers with information and tools to manage their home energy bills; inform them about the connection between household energy use and energy prices; and inspire them to use energy efficiency to reduce their energy and thereby enhance the nation's energy security. Phase 1 was launched in winter 2005 with 23 business, government, and nonprofit partners. The Phase 2 2006-7 winter campaign has grown to 32 partners taking a creative new approach with the 6° of Energy Efficiency Challenge.

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