"Life Is a Power Plant" Energy Education Course Now Enrolling

"Life Is a Power Plant" Energy Education Course Now Enrolling

1. Activity Introduction:

In 2016, the Homemakers United Foundation (hereinafter referred to as "the Foundation") established a "Community Energy Education Base" as a place to share everyday electricity-saving information, further embedding the concept that "saving electricity is invisible power generation" into people's daily lives.

In 2017, the Foundation extended its energy education outreach into communities. Through a series of energy-saving education programs, it deepened public understanding of renewable energy, and by combining hands-on operation, use, and related courses, enabled more people to easily use renewable energy in their daily lives.

The August 15, 2017 blackout highlighted Taiwan's electricity problems. Saving electricity is the most cost-effective form of power generation, and it can further collectively reduce everyday electricity consumption while allowing clean energy in daily life to be sustainable and inexhaustible. Therefore, this project is titled "Life Is a Power Plant," hoping to lead more people to use energy reasonably together.

98% of Taiwan's energy is imported, yet Taiwan's per capita electricity consumption ranks 12th in the world, and household electricity accounts for about 60% of summer peak electricity use. Therefore, reducing household electricity consumption is an urgent task for Taiwan.

However, because many people have gradually lost interest in the familiar refrains of energy saving and carbon reduction, the Foundation offers creative ways to save electricity in daily life while maintaining quality of life. Therefore, this project will provide easy-to-practice carbon-reduction tips for daily life, lead people to save electricity together in their daily lives, and supplement this with lectures to share energy knowledge and jointly consider possibilities for action.

2. Course Objectives:The 2018 "Life Is a Power Plant" energy education project, in addition to continuing to promote the concept of saving electricity, will go a step further by providing ways to generate power in daily life. Through courses that can be practiced in everyday life, it will transform difficult energy issues into actions everyone can participate in, along with hardware use and courses. It will help more people understand how to reduce the use of conventional electricity while maintaining quality of life, and thereby reduce dependence on fossil fuels.

3. Target Participants:Cooperative members and the general public.

4. Registration Method:Online registration. Please fill out the registration form. After successful registration is confirmed, you will receive a confirmation email.

5. Registration Period:From now until capacity is filled.

6. Course Period:Starting March 21, 2018, every fourth Wednesday of the month from 10:00-12:00 a.m. The full course is expected to end in November.

7. Capacity per Session: 50 people

8. Registration Fee:Free. Please cherish the activity resources; if you cannot attend, please notify the organizer at least three days before the event (excluding weekends and holidays). If you register but fail to attend without prior notice, the organizer reserves the right to refuse that participant's registration for subsequent sessions.

9.Class Address:Taipei NGO House (No. 8, Qingdao East Road, Zhongzheng District, Taipei City 100)

10. For course-related questions, please contact:02-2368-6211*17 Zhou Yuxuan [email protected]

11. Commissioning Units:Taiwan Homemakers United Foundation Life Consumption Cooperative, Taipei North Branch and Taipei South Branch

12. Executing Unit:Homemakers United Foundation

13. Course Content:

※The Foundation reserves the right to adjust the course content, location, dates, and instructor arrangements for this activity; any matters not covered shall be governed by the Foundation's latest announcements.

Course Time: Every fourth Wednesday of the month from 10:00-12:00 a.m.

(1) Everyday Energy-Saving Education Course: Save a Little, Make a Big Difference

Time	Course	Description	Registration Link
3/21	Refrigerator Organization Techniques	After Lunar New Year, the refrigerator is always exploding, and do you often fail to find ingredients in it, only to throw them away once found? The refrigerator is the only appliance in the home that runs 24 hours without being unplugged, and opening the door is when electricity use peaks. Through refrigerator organization, let us reduce food waste, save time, and save even more energy.	3/21 Refrigerator Organization Techniques (Click Me)
4/25	Plant a Curtain of Coolness	After June begins and midsummer arrives, electricity use peaks, and air conditioning is the main cause. Let us plant a curtain of coolness in March-April to reduce summer air-conditioning demand.	4/25 Plant a Curtain of Coolness (Click Me)
5/23	Everyday Electricity Saving + Energy-Saving Base Visit	Besides turning off lights when leaving a room, what other energy-saving tips are there? Before entering the summer of power shortages, let us first review household electricity-use habits.	In preparation
6/20	Does Brightness Matter? Lighting and Energy Saving	Do you know how electricity is generated? Lighting brightens our lives, but does overuse instead cause trouble for the environment and our lives? Teacher Nian uses real examples to tell you what can be done better.	In preparation
7/25	Low-Carbon Green Building: Visit the Greenpeace Office	How can we effectively create a space that is well ventilated, full of light, generates its own power, and saves energy? Let us witness a low-carbon green building on site!	In preparation

​​​​​​​(2) Energy Knowledge Lectures: Tiny Electricity, Big Knowledge

Time	Course	Description	Registration Link
8/22	Generate Power with Your Own Hands	Do you know how electricity is generated? Let us not only tell you the principles of electricity, but also take you hands-on to build your own micro power generator.	In preparation
9/19	Are Energy and Air Pollution Irreconcilable?!	The increasingly serious air pollution problem has everyone worried, and how can elderly people and children who are more sensitive to air survive? Although the government has announced that the energy transition should move toward low-carbon power generation, there is still a certain proportion of coal-fired and gas-fired power generation, so what should be done about the air pollution problem? There is also a certain energy demand in daily life. Does that mean we can only choose one between energy and air pollution?	In preparation
10/24	Understanding Taiwan's Renewable Energy	What renewable energy does Taiwan have? What are the principles behind generating power from these renewable energies? Is it really possible for us to transition in the future to a life centered on renewable energy?	In preparation
11/21	Citizens Generate Power	What exactly is the energy transition that the government keeps talking about? What does the share of renewable energy have to do with me? Have you ever thought that you could also be the director of a power plant? Many renewable energy developments abroad actually rely on the power of citizens. Beyond overseas cases, what channels for participation exist domestically? Let us take a look together.	In preparation

※ Before or after the course, volunteer sharing of practical experience in saving electricity and low-carbon living may be arranged according to the course content.

※ If there are changes to course names or class locations, the Homemakers United Foundation's announcements shall prevail.