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The Behavior, Energy, & Climate Change (BECC) conference is back this year with an array of interesting sessions and a fantastic keynote speaker.
Location: Sacramento…
Climate change is a tremendous, abstract, and seemingly distant problem, and much of the time, policymakers and practitioners focus on the threat it poses. This ‘doom and gloom’ n…
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If you are running an energy program in the United States and need free behavioral science advice, you might consider working with the BEARhub. BEAR stands for Behavior,…
Cool Block promotes over one hundred actions that can help make households, neighborhoods and entire cities more sustainable. It has been saving 20 billion pounds (9.07 million me…
Chicago was the first U.S. city to require building owners to prominently post a building’s energy performance rating, and to share that that rating with potential buyers and/or r…
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You may have heard of Opower, an American company that provides a customer engagement platform for utilities. They were acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2016. Anyway, O…
To promote the reduction of home energy consumption and energy use related to food and transportation, Girl Scouts created the Girls Learning Energy and Environment Program (GLEE)…
Kady Cowan, founder of Energy Connect, designed the program with a specific focus on engaging frontline facilities management staff, building operators, mechanics, and engineers i…
Based on a campaign run in Belgium in 2003, Europe’s Energy Neighborhoods was a program designed to allow neighborhoods to ‘bet’ with their municipalities that they could reduce e…
Medicine Hat, a city in western Canada with a municipally owned utility, was interested in exploring how consumers would respond to receiving information on their home’s heat loss…
