PG&E Conserve Energy Button
notes: label: Description
content: During the 1970s, California’s largest electric utility, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), came under intense pressure from environmental organizations and the California Energy Commission to encourage its customers to conserve energy. PG&E complied, launching a public relations campaign that included this button, which dates from about 1980.
label: Description
content: The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Enterprise
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content: Environmental Buttons
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0353
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0353
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 6.4 cm; 1/8 in x 2 17/32 in