{"id":7657,"date":"2015-02-16T23:52:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=7657"},"modified":"2015-02-16T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T06:52:13","slug":"georgetown-university-prize-community-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2015\/02\/16\/georgetown-university-prize-community-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown University Prize: Community Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Wednesday, February 18th, will be the first community meeting to discuss Corvallis’ entry in the Georgetown University Energy Prize<\/a>. The meeting will be at 7pm at the\u00a0Corvallis-Benton County Public Library (645 NW Monroe Ave).<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nThe city of Corvallis is currently a\u00a0quarterfinalist for the\u00a0Prize<\/a>, a $5 million incentive to reduce energy consumption. But now that we\u2019ve made it this far, we need everyone\u2019s help to save more energy than the 49 other American cities in the competition. At the upcoming meeting, attendees will\u00a0learn how they can save energy at home with local programs and incentives and how they can help Corvallis win the $5 million Energy Prize.<\/div>\n
The $5 million GUEP prize will be awarded to the community that reduces its residential and municipal use of metered electricity and natural gas more than any other contest entrant.<\/span>The winning city will be judged based on reductions in energy use, innovation of approach, quality of community outreach, sustainability, and replicability.\u00a0The Corvallis application was submitted \u00a0in June, including letters of support from numerous local businesses and non-profits, Mayor Julie Manning, the Corvallis City Council, and all three utilities: Pacific Power, Consumers Power and Northwest Natural. <\/span>Members of the <\/span>Corvallis Sustainability Coalition<\/a>\u2019s Energy Action Team (EAT) and <\/span>Energize Corvallis<\/a> \u2013 a project of the Corvallis Environmental Center \u2013 spent months assembling the town\u2019s application.<\/span><\/div>\n

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The goals of the GUEP are to foster innovative approaches to energy efficiency, educate the public and engage students in energy issues, and to grow markets for products & services that facilitate energy efficiency.<\/div>\n
The final stage of the two-year competition began on January 1st, and now it\u2019s time for us to put our best foot forward to help make Corvallis a national leader in sustainability! Together with help from volunteers, the City, and community, Corvallis will have a good chance of becoming a finalist.<\/div>\n
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Learn how you can reduce your energy consumption\u00a0here<\/a>, and visit the Energize Corvallis website to sign up for some energy-saving actions that will improve efficiency in your home as well as the community.<\/div>\n
Visit the Georgetown University Energy Prize\u00a0website<\/a> for more information about the contest and find out more about Corvallis\u2019 entry in the\u00a0Georgetown University Energy Prize<\/a> here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This Wednesday, February 18th, will be the first community meeting to discuss Corvallis’ entry in the Georgetown University Energy Prize. The meeting will be at 7pm at the\u00a0Corvallis-Benton County Public Library (645 NW Monroe Ave). The city of Corvallis is currently a\u00a0quarterfinalist for the\u00a0Prize, a $5 million incentive to reduce energy consumption. But now that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292117,607127,1292103,607472],"tags":[617133,356,617472,1206],"class_list":["post-7657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-sustainability","category-th2010","category-energy","category-events-outreach","tag-energize-corvallis","tag-energy","tag-energy-action-team","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}