Communications resources

8 Great Strategies to Engage Tenants on Energy Efficiency i

This 45-slide PDF presentation details eight ways to engage your employees and tenants in saving energy. It also includes plenty of examples from successful ENERGY STAR partners!

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Bring Your Green to Work i

Use these tools—including tip sheets, posters, and interactive activities—to encourage your team to save energy in the workplace. Bring Your Green to Work is a national ENERGY STAR campaign encouraging all of us to help improve the energy efficiency at the places where we work.

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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" email invitation (Industrial version) i

Planning an employee "lunch and learn" session at your industrial site? Tailor this email invitation from EPA's "Bring Your Green to Work with ENERGY STAR" suite of employee education tools.

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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" email invitation (Office version) i

Customize this email invitation for a traditional office setting to invite everyone to a "lunch and learn" on the basics about saving energy. 

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Bring Your Green to Work: "Lunch & learn" presentation for employees i

Use this ready-made PowerPoint presentation and speaker notes to deliver a fun, interactive 60-minute training session for employees and co-workers. Topics include the importance of energy efficiency and how everyone can find small ways to save energy at work.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Cubicle poster i

Use this poster to promote energy efficiency in your workplace by printing or displaying it in your office or distributing it to your coworkers. The poster contains a few easy tips you can use to save energy at work.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Customizable "lunch & learn" flyer (Industrial version) i

This is a customizable flyer that you can use to promote your industrial site's upcoming employee education event. This flyer is part of EPA's "Bring Your Green to Work with ENERGY STAR" suite of tools.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Customizable "lunch & learn" flyer (Office version) i

This is a customizable flyer that you can use to promote your upcoming employee education event. This flyer is part of EPA's "Bring Your Green to Work with ENERGY STAR" suite of tools.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Green team checklist i

EPA has learned from ENERGY STAR partners that forming a green team with coworkers is a great way to help increase energy efficiency and reduce office waste. Consider following this checklist of creative ideas from EPA to help your green team get started.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Interactive manufacturing plant i

This fun, interactive tool shows you where you can save energy in industrial buildings and manufacturing plants. The tool contains quick tips on how you can maintain motors, tune boilers, educate staff, and more to reduce your building or plant's energy costs.

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Bring Your Green to Work: IQ quiz i

Think you know about energy efficiency? Take this 10-question quiz to find out. The quiz is a part of EPA'sENERGY STAR Bring Your Green to Work campaign, which offers tools and interactive resources that can help you and your coworkers plan to reduce energy use in the office.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Tip card i

This double-sided tip card lists a few easy steps to save energy wherever you are, from changing the power settings on  your computer to creating a Green Team in your office. You can print and display this card in your office or share it with your co-workers.

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Bring Your Green to Work: Video featuring Danny Seo i

Green guru Danny Seo tells viewers how to save energy in buildingsJoin green guru Danny Seo behind the scenes of an ENERGY STAR certified building in this four-m

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Brochure: ENERGY STAR for Commercial Buildings and Industrial Plants i

This brochure provides an at-a-glance overview of the ENERGY STAR program for commercial buildings and industrial plants. Download or order free copies to distribute to corporate management, employees, tenants, and the public.

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Build Your Business with ENERGY STAR i

This document demonstrates how companies that provide commercial building services and energy efficiency products can leverage ENERGY STAR to help their clients use energy more efficiently.

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College/University Student Activity Guide i

The ENERGY STAR Student Activity Guide is available to colleges and universities that are looking to improve energy performance on-campus.

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Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR: Sample building design profile i

Use this sample profile template to write about your commercial building design project that has achieved EPA's Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR designation.

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Energy Efficiency Competition Guide i

Use this workbook to plan an energy efficiency competition in your workplace.

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ENERGY STAR Plant energy awareness posters (English) i

Customize one or all of these employee energy awareness posters to promote energy management best practices at your industrial site.

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ENERGY STAR plant energy awareness posters (Spanish) i

Customize one or all of these Spanish-language employee energy awareness posters to promote energy management at your industrial site.

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How to Apply the ENERGY STAR Certified Building Decal i

Download these step-by-step instructions to make sure that your ENERGY STAR certified building or plant decal goes on the right way, every time. Includes a list of supplies, paper templates, and instructions for how to turn your decal into a sleek glass plaque.

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Ideas for promoting your ENERGY STAR certification i

Browse through these ideas and suggestions for ways to celebrate earning EPA's ENERGY STAR for your building or plant. This document also includes a sample itinerary for an event or ceremony.

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Letter of Intent: Owner-Occupied Building i

This letter serves to notify the ENERGY STAR program that you, a building owner, are submitting a project for consideration for Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR. The letter signifies that your project is expected to earn an ENERGY STAR score of 75 or greater in Portfolio Manager.

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L’Oréal USA I’ve Got the Power Energy Conservation Challenge presentation i

L’Oréal USA cut their headquarters' electricity use by nine percent in just five months. How did they do it? By educating and motivating their employees.

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Online Web Store i

Visit the online ENERGY STAR store to purchase plaques, flags, banners, and decals that you can use to promote your ENERGY STAR certified building or plant.

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Sample press release: For certified buildings i

Use this sample press release to spread the news about your ENERGY STAR certified commercial building.

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Sample press release: For certified facilities/plants i

Use this sample press release to spread the news about your ENERGY STAR certified industrial plant.

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Sample press release: Joining ENERGY STAR as a partner i

Customize and distribute this template press release to publicly announce your commitment to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in partnership with EPA's ENERGY STAR program.

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Sample press release: Project has achieved Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR i

If your commercial building design project has achieved EPA's Designed to Earn the ENERGY STAR designation, use this template press release to spread the word!

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Service and Product Provider Press Release Template i

ENERGY STAR Service and Product Provider (SPP) partners can customize and issue this sample press release to spread the word about their partnership with ENERGY STAR.

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Teaming Up to Save Energy i

Teaming Up to Save Energy is a “how-to” guide on building an energy management team. This 40-page booklet discusses the structure, launch, and maintenance of an energy team.

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Tenant data request: Sample letter i

Use this sample letter to request energy data from your tenants. This is helpful for instances where you want whole-building energy data, but only have access to energy bills for a portion of the space.

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[Your Building] Earns the ENERGY STAR i

Customize and issue this template press release to spread the word about your ENERGY STAR certified building.

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[Your Industrial Plant] Earns the ENERGY STAR i

Customize and issue this template press release to spread the word about your ENERGY STAR certified facility.

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[Your Organization] is Recognized by EPA as an ENERGY STAR Leader i

Customize and issue this template press release to spread the word about your designation as an ENERGY STAR Leader.

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