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Energy Camp Best Practices Document
Welcome to the Energy Camp Best Practice Document page!
Download the current Best Practices PDF here.
This document is in draft form.
Introduction
At the first Energy Camp, held April 28, 2008 in Las Vegas, it was decided to create a document entitled "Best Practices for Saving Energy" and make it available as a free download on the Energy Camp wiki.
Why do this? To really reduce an organization's carbon footprint requires a holistic approach. Not only does it involve mandates in terms of greening certain practices (e.g., purchasing recycled or easily recyclable materials), it also involves a way of thinking on behalf of the entire organization from the executive office all the way down to part-timers and contractors. But how do you get everyone on board? Sure, you can talk to them. But what about continually arming them with the growing body of best practices that are known to conserve energy, ultimately benefiting the planet and sustainability? If you want to distribute such a document, how do you develop it? Where do the best practices come from?
Distributing a best practices document to your organization
Most organizations don't care to develop best practice documents from scratch. Why reinvent the wheel when there's a better way? Unfortunately, if you look on the Web for an existing Best Practices for Saving Energy document to borrow from, you'll find nothing exists. At least not freely.
Nortel ran into the same problem when it decided to go green and, as a result, it started its own internal best practices document. At Energy Camp in Las Vegas 2008, Nortel volunteered to contribute the work they had done so far as the foundation on which to base a freely downloadable, shareable, and modifiable Best Practices for Saving Energy document.
Wikia's page on reducing your carbon footprint was also used and, in line with Wikia's terms of use, this document is licensed with the GNU Free Documentation License meaning "the content can be copied, modified, and redistributed so long as the new version grants the same freedoms to others and acknowledges the authors."
The goal
So, from hereon in the goal for the Best Practices for Saving Energy document is to not only make it available to anybody who wants it, but to continually improve on it. This document is far from finished. We're looking to you, the Energy Camp community (whether you've attended an event or not), to make contributions. As you can see from the link below, we've made it downloadable in PDF form. If you have suggestions/ideas/contributions, you are encouraged to post them directly onto this Wiki page at which point the editors of the downloadable document will look to incorporate those contributions into the download. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact one of the following people:
David Berlind: dberlind AT techweb.com
James Governor: jgovernor AT redmonk.com
Tom Raftery: tom AT tomrafteryit.net
Download the current Best Practices PDF here. This document is in draft form.
