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Stopping To Smell The (Energy Saving) Roses – An Operation TLC Celebration
When it comes to saving energy, it’s easy to get so focused on how far we need to go to meet our targets and goals that we forget to take a look back to see how far we’ve come. Case in point – this past April, UHN set new, aggressive energy saving targets, replacing our original, aggressive energy saving targets that we hadn’t fully met. And I was so intent in figuring out how well we were doing against our new targets that it wasn’t until last month that I realized that, albeit 6 months later than we’d planned..
We’re meeting our original energy consumption saving target!
This is something all at UHN should celebrate – it truly is a team effort in every sense of the word. So, before we return to new targets and projects, take the time to pat yourself on the back and reflect for a moment, not on where we’re going, but how far we’ve come…we’ve done something good!
UHN’s Golden Lightswitch Award for energy excellence.
Shut the Sash: The Power of Pizza
Armit – the sash man
Hi, my name is Armit Dhinsa; I am a co-op student from Waterloo who has been leading the Shut the Sash program from January 2016. For those of you in research at UHN, you have probably seen me wandering around the lab spaces for some time now, wondering how I magically appear out of nowhere almost everyday. It is all the the Shut the Sash campaign, a major energy saving behavior change program in Research.
The importance of Shutting the Sash was new to me when I joined. As a biology student who uses fume hoods regularly at school, the extremely high energy usage of the Fume hood was completely unknown to me. Continue reading
Textbook Case, But Better
Remember me? I haven’t been gone long enough to be a complete stranger, but I guess long enough to be a guest. I am back because there is some really good news to share. I know you will be as excited as I am about the Continue reading
