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Working together, we can make a difference. Find steps to get started, resources, and turnkey materials to help promote your involvement and achieve your OPERATION CHANGE OUT goal.
Creating a team is an important element in developing, implementing, and promoting your participation in ENERGY STAR OPERATION CHANGE OUT. Assemble the team that best suits your needs and fits with your available resources.
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1. Top level official or executive: Base Commanding Officer, Military Housing Provider Executive | Support from the highest level shows the commitment you have to improving energy use and to motivating others to do the same. This support can be used to engage your community at all levels. |
2. Someone involved in energy operations: Energy Managers, Facilities Managers, Environmental Manager, Sustainability Coordinator | An energy manager, facilities manager, environmental manager, or sustainability coordinator can be key in helping improve the energy performance of the buildings in your community. They can help set internal policies and practices that will reduce energy consumption, and they can be the ones to track the progress of these efforts. These individuals can also help train members within the community on tools and resources available to help improve energy performance. They can host in-person events for different members of the community and gather support from other groups that have similar energy and environmental goals. |
3. Someone to work with the media: Public Affairs Officer, Public Relations associate | Someone from communications or public relations can help promote your successes in energy efficiency to the community and can use materials from the OPERATION CHANGE OUT toolkit to post newsletters and press releases. |
4. Someone who works with the broader community: Community outreach team, Spousal volunteer groups | This individual can help engage the broader community on why improving their energy performance matters and how they and their community can benefit from doing so. |
Contact our campaign staff at operationchangeout@drintl.com to get involved. It would be our pleasure to register your base as a Pledge Driver on your behalf, and send you your unique tracking link.
Your goal can be based on the combined number of on-base housing units and barracks. Have questions? Our campaign team can assist you in setting your goal. Contact: operationchangeout@drintl.com
ENERGY STAR is here to help. Check out the turnkey tools and resources listed below!
Change inefficient incandescent light bulbs to ENERGY STAR qualified models where appropriate. The ENERGY STAR Choose a Light Guide can help you identify the appropriate places for ENERGY STAR qualified light bulbs.
The ENERGY STAR OPERATION CHANGE OUT campaign team will work with privatized housing providers and base energy managers, or the designated base champion, to collect the tracking information. Report your progress to operationchangeout@drintl.com. We can’t count your efforts if you don’t tell us about them. We are most interested in the following information:
Don’t forget to SHOW YOUR COMMITMENT by sending your progress including photos of efforts your base is making to educate the community about energy efficiency and send them for posting on energystar.gov/OCO to operationchangeout@drintl.com
When you’ve completed your bulb change-out, consider encouraging your on and off base community to check for and change out other inefficient products, such as old refrigerators. The ENERGY STAR Recycle My Old Fridge Campaign can make it easy.
You can also encourage your on and off base community to take the ENERGY STAR pledge by clicking on the link from your base’s tracking page.
Contact operationchangeout@drintl.com to get involved.