Camp Timberlane has finally begun to respond to the energy crisis, after President Carter’s major energy speech a few weeks ago. As a result of the speech, which most of the staff watched or listened to, Barry Schulman and Gary Gorchoff came up with, what they call, the Timberlane Energy Plan. Here is an outline of our four-point energy plan.

First of all, all lights in the cabins should be off during the day when there is nobody around. Any cabin that is found with their lights on with no one present, will be penalized by not being able to use the trampolines for a full 24 hours.

Secondly, all cabin heaters are to be turned off in the morning, and not turned on again until evening.

Thirdly, the unnecessary use of the camp vehicles has been cut down as much as possible.

Fourthly, we are now recycling all the aluminum cans from our Pepsi machine in the lodge. There is a large bin next to the machine, and we take the cans deposited there to a recycling company that pays us per pound. The money acquired will be used for a Watermelon party for the camp, a very kind gesture from the director.

However, the specific details of how to conserve energy are not as important as the general attitude of trying to conserve. Europeans get by on less than half the amount of fuel we Americans use; and we are not going to be able to waste as much fuel as we have done in the past. We have been using fuel like there was no tomorrow------but tomorrow is NOW!