Step 7: vote for action

Thanks for helping make the energy [r]evolution real. Over the past six to seven weeks, you've raised awareness about climate change, you've reduced your own energy use and you've challenged companies and governments to take action too.

Lock-on action perhaps?

Step 7: Have your say.

There's always plenty more work, but as far as the 7 steps go, you've done your part. For the final step, we need your advice. Where would you like Greenpeace to do nonviolent direct actions about climate change, and energy efficiency in particular:

• Protest at the stores of a big retailer - Show them how to take inefficient lightbulbs off the store shelves!
  
• Pay a "very visible" visit to a lighting manufacturer - Tell them to stop making energy wasting lightbulbs!
  
• Go straight to the source - Target the construction site of a new fossil fuel power station!
  

Which would you do? Which do you feel would inspire people to do more for the environment? Have your say in our exclusive online poll.

It's been a pleasure to journey with you these past few weeks. Thanks especially to everyone who sent us feedback about the campaign, things to improve, and opportunities for action and collaboration. After you have completed the poll, feel free to drop us a line or join other supporters in the Greenpeace Forum and the MakingWaves blog. If you feel the campaign was worth it, and if you can think of anybody you know who might like to join, don't hesitate to send them to greenpeace.org/7steps today.

Step 6: Petition the Indian Government to Ban the Bulb

Thank you for coming with us this far. The next step is about challenging governments to outlaw energy wasting lightbulbs. Climate change is a global emergency, we need to look for opportunities where we can make big differences by working together.

There's a bold plan to ban energy wasting lightbulbs in one of the world's largest and fastest growing economies - India. Greenpeace India says the time to do it is now, and with your help they can.

Call on India's Minister of Power to ban energy wasting lightbulbs.

Imagine if a country with over a billion people all switched to energy saving lightbulbs... preventing an estimated 55 million tonnes of CO2 pollution per year... It would change the world!

Thanks!

Step 5: Talk to retailers

Last week you contacted lightbulb manufactures. Good job and thanks! But manufactures are only half of the lightbulb sales equation. Stores are the other half. Talk to your local lightbulb seller. Thank them for selling Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs), and ask them to take the energy wasting bulbs off their shelves.

Less than 10 percent of the energy used by incandescent lightbulbs is converted into light - the rest is turned into heat. Over 90 percent waste! It's like selling a defective product.

Click here for talking points and a printable fact sheet.

p.s. It's important for us to hear what retailers are telling people, so please report back afterwards. Thanks.

Step 4: Tell companies to stop making inefficient lightbulbs

Greenpeace will deliver a compiled petition (names, not email addresses) with your individual comment to the world's biggest lightbulb companies. Your support for our demands will help pressure Philips, Osram, GE and SLI Sylvania to act now.

Sign the petition!

Step 3: Post "Ban this bulb (I did)" in the window, on the internet.

Step 3 of the energy efficiency campaign is all about spreading the word where you live. This can be your home, where you work, or where you spend time online.

Click here for posters, web graphics and instructions.

The idea is to spark the energy revolution in the minds of people beyond your immediate family and friends. You know there's a planetary emergency, but a lot of people still haven't caught on. Raise the alarm! And show them there are real solutions.

Home front activism: Remember the free poster from step 1? The easiest way to complete this task is to put that poster somewhere people can see it - like in the window of your house.

Online activism: Put one of our banners on your blog, MySpace page, Facebook profile, in your email signature, or wherever. We've got lots of different sizes.

Download the tools and read tips.

Thanks!

Step 2: Invite Seven People to Join

Here's a brief message you can send to your email contacts. Just copy and paste it into a new email. Please send it along right away, but please only send it to your friends, family or colleagues.

Thanks!

Subject: Join me in Greenpeace's 7-step climate campaign

Last week I joined this 7-step climate change campaign with Greenpeace. We are starting with lightbulbs, but it's about energy efficiency generally. You should join:

Click here to sign up (http://greenpeace.org/7steps)


Greenpeace proposes an "Energy Revolution" to save the world from catastrophic climate change. Half of it is about saving the power we use. And this campaign is about people like us helping to outlaw products that waste energy. Every week, for seven weeks, Greenpeace sends out an email with instructions how to campaign effectively for energy efficiency.

Every ton of carbon dioxide pumped into the atmosphere, every coal burning power plant built and every energy wasting lightbulb installed makes it harder for us to stop climate change. Each one is one more thing we'll need to undo. Better to do it right the first time.

Let's start an energy revolution!

I hope you'll join me today: Click here to sign up (http://greenpeace.org/7steps)

Step 1: Change those energy wasting lightbulbs!

Thanks for joining the energy revolution. Changed your lightbulbs to energy savers already? Then come here to report back!

We're guessing you've already started. You've probably changed all the lightbulbs in your home to energy saving compact fluorescents already. You're saving the environment as well as saving money on your electricity bill.

Now we want you do something for someone else. Maybe it's a friend who hasn't gotten around to changing their lightbulbs yet, maybe you know an older person who can't easily reach high up light fixtures. Whoever it is, help them out by changing at least one of their bulbs.

Greenpeace dixit

7 steps towards an energy [r]evolution

Today I received an e-mail from Greenpeace with yet another interesting campaign which I'd like you to join. This time is not about Apple and the Greener Apple but about making and energy revolution and stopping to use (en la medida de lo posible) fossil fuels and instead, use renewable forms of energy such as wind and solar energy.

But what can we do from home to use less energy? You can start with your lightbulbs.

We're starting with the most outrageously wasteful of electrical household items: the incandescent light bulb. Consider this: A simple switch to energy saving bulbs in the European Union alone would save 20 million tonnes of CO2, equal to shutting down 25 medium-size dirty power plants; and this is before we consider the efficiency of other household products, or even cars!

Y aquí ya voy un paso adelante porque en mi casa usamos de estos focos desde que salieron :)

Why don't you try them? Revolutions start with individuals getting together for a common goal. That's why the next steps are about sharing this idea with your friends and community. Then you'll be ready to challenge governments and influence businesses.

Así que cambien sus focos de 100 watts por ahorradores AHORA!