Gallery: Post-It Note Reminders Help L...   At Mount Sinai, the
energy cop is Assistant High School Principle, Chris Heil, who
sometimes arrives at schools at 4 a.m. to make sure the
custodial staff has turned off all of the lights and unnecessary
equipment. “I’m kind of like the cop who walks around and makes
sure people are doing what they’re supposed to be doing,” Mr.
Heil told The New York Times. “As soon as you take me away,
people will start their bad habits again.”  Across New York and
New Jersey, schools are pushing to reduce energy costs in a
world where budgets are already tight. Heil once encountered a
teacher who refused to turn off his classroom computers
overnight. Heil responded by sending an e-mail to the teacher
detailing how much money he was wasting in energy costs and
threatened to send it to the superintendent — the teacher then
decided to comply with the rules.  At schools in Yonkers,
cutting energy costs has allowed the district to afford $18
million in new boilers, windows and other im