<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State" downloadurl="http://www.5iamas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place" downloadurl="http://www.5iantlavalamp.com/"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> An open letter – Please forward to friends and colleagues. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Lighten Up, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place>!  <o:p></o:p> Let’s Generate a Long-Term Commitment to Conservation.<o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.lightenupontario.ca/">www.lightenupontario.ca</a><o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> August 3, 2006<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Dear friends,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> On August 1st, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place> set a new record for power consumption.  The new level of 27,005 megawatts smashed last years record by almost 1,000 megawatts, even with the calls for emergency conservation measures.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> We can’t all perform conservation miracles overnight, or only when the thermometer soars.  Conservation needs to be an ongoing commitment. <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> On behalf of the Conservation Council of Ontario (a 55 year-old provincial association of conservation groups and a registered charity), I’m asking for your help. Please show your support for conservation as a top priority for meeting <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place>’s electricity demand by making a personal pledge to use less electricity in your home.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Visit <a href="http://www.lightenupontario.ca/">www.lightenupontario.ca</a> to make your pledge.  You can also pick up a pledge booklet at your local Beer Store, or from other participating local retailers and community groups.  Look for the distinctive posters featuring that Canadian icon of improve comedy, Colin Mochrie.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> This is not a quick-click campaign, but rather the first step in a multi-year commitment to improve your habits and to make appropriate investments in conservation products.  In return, our commitment to you is to help you along the way with advice, with links to our local partners and with information about products, services and incentives that will make it easier for you to improve.  Our goal is to help make conservation easier.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Individually, we can shave a few dollars of our monthly electricity bills.  Together, we can reduce the need for fossil or nuclear power, to spend over $40 billion on new plants and transmission lines, or to import expensive power from smoggy <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> coal-fired plants. We might even turn down the global thermostat a notch.  <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Please help us make <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place> a conserver society.  If you give us your commitment to conserve, we will be able to back you up with a stronger conservation movement.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> With thanks,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Chris Winter <o:p></o:p> Executive Director<o:p></o:p> The Conservation Council of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Ontario</st1:State></st1:place><o:p></o:p> <a href="http://www.weconserve.ca/">www.weconserve.ca</a> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <img border=0 width=131 height=96 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01C6BAD4.1218B500" align=baseline> <a href="http://www.lightenupontario.ca">www.lightenupontario.ca</a> <o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> </div> </body> </html>