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For a limited time, Western Mass Saves will be giving out one iPod Touch each week one lucky new user chosen at random. To participate, simply sign up through this link: https://westernmasssaves.com/signup/?source=giv… Winners will be announced on the site, and contacted via email. It’s never too late to learn how to be more energy efficient, and you can always do more to save energy and money. Western Mass Saves can show you how, sign up to learn and for your chance to win!

Living green and conserving resources may seem like an individual effort, but many towns and organizations are taking it upon themselves to educate and inform their members in an effort to partner with their residents on overall energy efficiency. Two recent examples of towns working with their residents to maximize home

energy reductions are the Western Massachusetts towns of Amherst (http://www.amherstma.gov/ ) and Bernardston (http://www.town.bernardston.ma.us/ ). They are working with their residents through a partnership with Western Mass Saves. This partnership will give another strong tool to each town to encourage and help each individuals who wants to save money and make a difference.  Each town

has a partner page on Western Mass Saves (www.westernmasssaves.com ) where

they can track their exact energy reduction, cost savings, carbon savings and other benefits.

These towns are clearly showing that community leadership should not just be interested in town energy savings, but …

We tend to think that electricity use and energy habits are just something our parents care about.  After all, they pay the biggest bills.  But everyone needs to better manage their energy use because this is the source of greenhouse gases that accelerate climate change and threaten our planet. We should remember that high school and college students, whether living at home, in a dorm room or in an apartment, are America’s biggest energy users!  We are the plugged in generation!  America’s young adults can save a ton of money while being a crucial part of the solution.

That’s why WesternMassSaves.com was created. It’s the first website that puts you on your own unique path towards saving money from hundreds of different actions and purchases. What’s even cooler is that by clicking on the links at the top of the site, college students can participate in America’s Greenest Campus, the biggest nationwide competition ever among college students to reduce their carbon footprints.…