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By: Edna Schack

Frontier Housing has been awarded a Fall 2008 Change a Light, Change the World – Start with ENERGY STAR® Mini-Grant. The award is sponsored by The Kentucky Department for Energy Development and Independence and the Kentucky NEED

Project. For several years, Frontier has earned this award and used it to support placement of energy saving lighting in its homes.

This year Frontier Housing will focus their award on outdoor energy saving light fixtures. Frontier will begin to place The GlareBuster, an outdoor lighting fixture that is both an ENERGY STAR qualified and International Dark-sky Association (IDA) rated fixture, in its new construction. In addition to the grant, this effort is funded in part by a donation of Big Four Lumber Company, a Morehead retailer and Lighting by Branford/The GlareBuster, the designer and manufacturer of the fixture.

The award will also enable Frontier Housing to advise and provide support to a team of Rowan County Senior High School students in writing a bill for the 2008 Kentucky Youth Assembly Conference to be held in Louisville, KY in November. The goal of the bill is to require new commercial and government construction to use ENERGY STAR qualified and IDA approved fixtures in all exterior applications.

The Change a Light, Change the World – Start with ENERGY STAR campaign also encourages individuals, schools, private and government organizations to take a small step toward saving energy by pledging to change one or more light bulbs from an incandescent to compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). To make your pledge go to: www.energystar.gov/index.cfmfuseaction=globalwarming.showPledge&cpd_id=1349

By Edna O. Schack, MSU Professor on sabbatical with Frontier Housing,
Fall 2008
 

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