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VOICE OVER: Forest Service employees lightened their energy load by participating in the
Yates Lighten Your Load event. Employees donated government equipment currently not in use.
The Lighten Your Load event intends to lower the Yates building’s green house gas emission.
MIKE: 62 percent of the green house gases associated with the emissions of the Sidney
R. Yates building comes from electrical usage.
VOICE OVER: Sustainable Operations is a team committed to reducing the environmental footprint
of the Forest Service.
JACQUELINE: We are also using this opportunity to let people know that when their equipment
is plugged in, it is drawing power even if it’s turned off.
CATHERINE: In Business Operations we use surge protectors that are environmentally friendly.
Meaning they have 2 uncontrolled plugs and 6 controlled plugs. The controlled plugs are
attached to a sensor, which if you leave your desk it shuts off your lamp, shuts off a fan,
shuts off a heater.
VOICE OVER: With the help of the facilities staff, Business Operations hopes Lighten Your
Load day makes a positive impact on reducing that Yates energy consumption.