LogoJeffrey Broome Eagle Project

My Eagle Service Project

I wanted to find a good service project that would serve the whole community. I decided on energy conservation. I informed my scoutmaster of my project and began to work it out. I wrote to various companies for any information they might have on energy conservation. I began to gather up enough information to form a booklet, but I knew that it would be too expensive to print a booklet, so I began to cut out the least important information. I organized what I had left and arranged them into individual conservation hints. The finished copy took two sides of a page. I called 5 or 6 copy centers and got an estimate for 500 copies. I am working at Winn-Dixie and I used the money from my job to pay for the copies.

I called the boys that I had spoken to at the troop meeting and arranged a time convenient for them, and University Mall, where I was planning to pass the information out. After receiving permission from the mall, Steve Matteson, Phillip Hubbard, Eddie Tostanoski, and I, went to University Mall to pass out the energy conservation tips. I explained to them the best and most efficient way to pass out the information without disturbing people who wanted to shop at the mall. We spent three hours on Sat. November 11th, 1979 and three more hours on Sat. November 18th, 1979. We ended up with about 100 papers left so I told the boys to divide them up between the four of us and to pass them out in their neighborhoods.

I also organized and wrote a commentary on energy conservation for a spot on a radio station in Chapel Hill. I went down to the WCHL radio station on Friday, November 17th and made my message to the public. ]7he radio station played the tape 3 times on Monday, November 20th, 1979.

In my first draft of my project I said I was going to give a talk to the children in the schools, on energy conservation. After calling several teachers that would not agree to this I decided to change the project slightly. I also realized that the boys who would be helping me, would have to miss some classes at school. The reason for this is that I would have to give my talk while the children were still in school. I notified my scoutmaster of the change in my plans and picked a new idea. I finally made three posters showing ways to save energy. I called three elementary schools and got permission put them up in the halls after school. The tips could be followed easily by the children in the schools.

WCHL COMMENTARY

The United States uses more energy per person than any other nation on earth. Even though we have only 6 percent of the world's population, we use one third of the total energy used on earth. Most of the energy used by the United States comes from crude oil. We import almost one half of the oil we use. Where does this energy go? Industry uses 36 percent of it. Transportation uses 29 percent. Residents use 26 percent and the remaining amount is used by commerce. Of the 26 percent used by residents, 70 percent is used for heating and cooling. Twenty,percent goes for heating of water and 10 percent goes into lighting, cooking, and running of small appliances. If we make our homes more energy efficient, we save money in the end and get a tax cut as well. Experts estimate that we have 25 to 30 more years of oil to use, if we keep up the present rate of use. Without personal hardship, we could easily cut our energy consumption by as much as 30 percent.

No one knows exactly when the world will run out of oil, but when we do, we need to have learned more about alternate sources of energy. We need to start learning now about better and more efficient energy sources, not only for ourselves, but for our children and grandchildren as well.

ENERGY CONSERVATION TIPS

1. IN THE HOME
2. IN THE YARD AND WORKSHOP
3. IN THE CAR
SAVE ENERGY NOT ONLY FOR OURSELVES BUT FOR OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN



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