These included the 'setsuden (energy saving)' campaigns, which promoted the minimum indoor temperature setting of 28 °C in summer.
School pupils have carried out an energy audit, helped to plant more than 600 trees close to the school and carried out energy saving campaigns.
The closing of the three reactors, in addition to another three offline for scheduled maintenance, has led the country's leaders to order a nationwide energy-saving campaign in the middle of a particularly muggy summer.
For Wythenshawe, the award has helped to revitalise the trust's energy-saving campaign and has encouraged staff to achieve more, says Susan Osborne, director of communications and engagement at the trust.
But if against the odds, some powerful symbolism should inspire a moral and practical transformation in the way we're facing with this crisis, it is more likely to be a cross, or for that matter a crescent, than an energy-saving campaign.
I visited a veteran Party member who, as we sat on her terrace drinking tamarind juice, complained at length about Castro's most recent drive a grandiloquently proclaimed energy-saving campaign, one of the central features of which is to provide every Cuban household with a new Chinese-manufactured pressure cooker.
After years of political paralysis, the government rapidly implemented energy-saving campaigns, while Eskom told neighbouring countries who had been buying power on the cheap to sod off, got its maintenance scheduling sorted out and secured coal supplies and transportation.
The company was accused of employing its "Don't be evil" motto and its public energy-saving campaigns to cover up or make up for the massive amounts of energy its servers require.
For this the Japanese can give thanks not just to September, but also to setsuden, or "energy saving," an ambitious and strikingly successful campaign to conserve electricity after the March earthquake, tsunami and nuclear-plant disasters.
Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Selected as Campaigner of the year for the second time, Hugh continues to campaign for fish conservation, energy saving and ethical chicken farming amongst other issues.
Campaigner sponsored by B&Q Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall Selected as Campaigner of the year for the second time, Hugh continues to campaign for fish conservation, energy saving and ethical chicken farming amongst other issues.
