Web based education on energy efficient appliances in Romania

Abstract — Manufacturers have developed a new generation of household appliances which perform their functions more effectively and use less resources like energy and water. The next step is to inform and educate students and their families how using appliances more efficiently can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and prevent climate change. An on-line resource has developed (www.eais.info) as an enlarged appliance database accessible via Internet, a home appliance energy survey which is downloadable from the website, modules which explain the origins and impacts of global warming, product, labeling and energy saving in the home through using appliances more efficiently and a set of activities together with resource material suitable for use in primary and secondary schools throughout Romania (an eBook)