Office Depot Awards Energy Efficiency In ‘Change a Light’ Campaign

Office Depot is joining with the National Association of Counties and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to recognize six counties from across the United States for promoting energy efficiency and achieving success in this year’s NACo “Change A Light” campaign.

In October, each of the winning counties received 1,000 free Office Depot Green brand Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs to distribute throughout their respective communities, courtesy of Office Depot. Office Depot, a partner with NACo since the inception of the county program in 2006, provided a $3 coupon good towards the purchase of a new light bulb to all county employees and residents who signed the pledge. Office Depot Green brand CFLs are part of the Company’s wide assortment of environmentally preferable products.

More than 14,700 county employees and residents throughout the country pledged to replace one or more incandescent bulbs or fixtures in their homes with one that has earned the government’s ENERGY STAR label. This effort will help to prevent more than 6.1 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions, and save more than four million kilowatts per hour in energy and more than $300,000 in energy costs.

The campaign was conducted in two phases—one for county employees and one for county residents. Winning counties were determined by the percentage of their employees or percentage of the county population taking the pledge and were categorized in small (population less than 50,000), medium (population 50,000 to 500,000) and large (population more than 500,000).