Texas Interfaith Power and Light and Austin Area Interreligious Ministries (AAIM) are proud to announce the Kill-a-watt Interfaith Mini Challenge!
The Kill-a-watt Challenge, sponsored by the Austin Chronicle and Austin Energy, is a city-wide contest to encourage families, neighborhoods, businesses, and congregations to reduce their electric usage at this time of year when electric demand is especially high. Austin Energy customers can win recognition for cutting their electric consumption either in absolute numbers, or as a percentage of what they used in this same time-period last year.
Texas IPL and AAIM have convinced the contest sponsors to create a special category in the contest for congregations.
Here's how it would work: for each participating congregation, at least 10 households would agree to be part of the congregation's "team". Those households would sign up for the contest on the Austin Chronicle website.
The congregational contest would only count August and September so the congregation's "team" would need to sign up by August 1st.
The congregation whose "team" cuts its collective energy use the most will be recognized in the Austin Chronicle and win a party for the entire congregation (not just the "team" members)!
Please register with me, Shelby Wardlaw, first by emailing me at shelby@texasimpact.org or by calling Texas Impact at 472-3903 so we have a record of the faith communities participating.
Thank you to all the participating faith communities who are helping to make our creation a better place in which to live and worship!