Specifically, our current activities are as follows.

Development of Online Energy Analysis and Forecast Tools

The objective of this activity is to develop and improve on an online tool for any individual household or business located anywhere in the world to

• Analyze and visualize their past energy (especially electricity) usage,
• Perform correlation analysis between the energy usage and local climate data
• Automatically create a customized weather-based daily energy use forecast model.
• Make daily energy usage (and corresponding CO2 emission) forecast using the above forecast model.
• Receive daily forecast, together with practical advices on how to reduce energy consumption, via email or by logging in online.

This is the core technology we depend on to carry out our mission of helping every individual household and business to reduce energy use by 20%. One indispensable component is the huge climate database we have assembled that covers almost every major weather station in the world, which allows users anywhere in the world to build the energy-climate forecast model and understand how weather affects their energy use. We have also developed and will continue to improve on a large number of online algorithms that automatically analyze the user's energy bill data and match with corresponding local climate data and then quickly build the forecast model.

Survey of Energy-Wasting Practices

The objective of this activity is to establish the evidences that a lot of energy is being wasted through our wasteful habits of energy use, and a substantial saving in energy can be achieved by changing those habits. One of the most obvious sources of energy waste is the unnecessary overnight lighting both in individual households and in businesses.

This survey is to document this practice of overnight lighting by visiting stores and homes at early morning hours, from about 2:00 AM to about 5:00 AM. We have estimated the percentage of homes with outdoor lighting left on overnight in the surveyed neighborhoods and photos of some of such homes have been taken as examples to be shown on our website. We have also documented such practices by stores, schools, and libraries, and photos have been taken and shown on our website in the section of Stop Wasting Energy Now.

This survey has been conducted in Northern Virginia region, specifically Fairfax County and Loudoun County. Two rounds of early morning survey have been completed and more are soon to come.

Campaign Targeting Individual Households

This campaign involves delivery to individual households of a brochure that advocates energy saving. The message is that saving energy is good to both the your wallet and the climate. The message also tries to convince the audience that energy saving of 20% is possible by avoiding unnecessary energy waste in our daily life without affecting our quality of life. The message further persuades the audience that it is easy to engage in the energy saving activity by using our free online energy-climate analysis tool.

This activity will be conducted continuously first in the Greater Washington DC area (where our office is located) by our employees and volunteers, and subsequently in all parts of the country and throughout the world by local volunteers and via online distribution of our campaign brochure.

This activity comprises a major part of our purpose of helping reduce energy usage and hence reduce the greenhouse gas emission, since the residential use of energy accounts for a significant percentage of total energy consumption (and greenhouse gas emission).

Campaign Targeting Businesses

Another group of users that can contribute greatly to the reduction in energy usage includes businesses, government, and other organizations. Our recent survey reveals wide-spread practice of energy waste, such as over-night indoor and outdoor lighting in most locations such as stores, schools, and libraries. Similar to the campaign targeting individual households, this campaign focuses on delivery of business-oriented brochures to stores and other entities that have been identified as being the most energy wasting. The message emphasizes the economical benefit of energy saving to the audience, with an accompanying call to the urgency of greenhouse gas reduction. The message also tries to convince the audience that it's easy to start taking action by using our free online energy analysis and forecasting tool.

This activity will be a continuous campaign to penetrate ALL business and public entities in order to achieve our goal short-term, immediate goal of 20% reduction of energy usage across the nation and across the world. We will start locally in the greater Washington DC area with delivery of brochures to store fronts, company headquarters, and public organizations by our employees and volunteers. Concurrently, this activity will also be carried out in other parts of the world by local volunteers and brochures are also being distributed world-wide via our website.

This activity, similar to our individual household-oriented campaign, comprises another major part of our purpose of reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emission as the commercial energy consumption accounts for another major percentage of the total energy usage.

High School Climate and Energy Project

Reducing greenhouse gas emission is a long-term task. Many states with climate legislations, for example, mandate that the greenhouse emission be reduced to a certain percentage of the 1990 level by the year 2020 and 2050. This means that in the future we will depend on our current young generation to tackle the climate issues. A population with a well-balanced, scientifically based knowledge on climate and its dynamics is crucial.

This project will strive to collaborate with any school that is interested in using climate data in its science education. Using actual local climate data in class is beneficial in many ways. The students learn how to perform complex statistical analysis on daily temperature, rainfall and other weather elements, looking for patterns such as long-term trend and extreme values. Students can also perform correlation analysis between climate data and other variables such as daily or monthly energy usage, by which they learn how sensitive or insensitive energy consumption is to weather variations.

As important and useful as climate data is in school science-related project, local climate data is not easy to be obtained by individual schools. This is where The NeoClimate Organization comes into the picture. Using our extensive world-wide climate database, we are capable of quickly providing local historical daily weather data to any school in the world. Our online algorithms can also create customized data, such as Heating Degree Days for a specific period, to meed the requirements of different science projects.

We are inviting interested schools to participate in this program. We'll start with schools in the greater Washington DC area then expand to cover the entire country and across the world.