Sustainability Starts at Home

Sustainability starts at home. Today for Earth Week, let’s focus on Energy Systems!

Where do you get your energy to heat your home, turn on your lights, and power the screens in your life? Are you using renewable or nonrenewable energy sources?

Learn more about renewable energy resources and how we can use nonrenewable energy sources more efficiently here from our neighbors at NREL!

You can take action and become more efficient through United Power Programs & Rebates, Xcel Energy Programs & Rebates, or Boulder County’s EnergySmart program!

The Sustainability Advisory Board will be hosting an online Earth Day week through Sunday, April 26. Each day, they will be highlighting action-items, or pledges, that participants can commit to in honor of the 50^th Anniversary of Earth Day. Through social media and email, they will be asking our community to commit to making small changes in their daily lives, and to encourage their friends, family, and neighbors to do the same – while staying safe at home! Subscribe to Sustainability notifications here.

Erie youth are invited to get creative and share how “I Can Make Erie Green” through creative expression using chalk, paint, markers, crayons, etc. Completed masterpieces can be emailed to connect@erie.earth to be featured on a new Erie.Earth website debuting on Earth Day, April 22. The Sustainability Advisory Board will be awarding all participants a prize!