Results Using Wirless In-Home Energy Monitors

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Feb 22, 2011 15:26 pm
Only ten days until the webinar on Cape Light Compact Smart Home Energy Monitoring Pilot. This well designed and executed pilot project, which recently achieved unusually high ene…

Energy Efficiency Barriers & Benefits for Aboriginal Communities

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Fleur Crowe Perth Feb 17, 2011 1:37 am
I have recently completed a home energy efficiency engagement project in over 400 remote Aboriginal communities in regional Western Australia. Whilst I have identified many B&B f…

Taking Action to Reduce Energy Use

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Joette Storm, APR Anchorage Feb 13, 2011 22:09 pm
Who has a recent study on why some people are reluctant to change their energy use behaviors? Alaska wishes to coordinate all the energy efficiency efforts and is focusing on beha…

Webinar on Cape Light Compact Smart Home Energy Monitoring Pilot

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Jan 25, 2011 15:54 pm
This well designed and executed pilot project, which recently achieved unusually high energy use reductions among 100 volunteer participants, illustrates the power of real-time fe…
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Household Actions Can Provide a Behavioral Wedge to Rapidly Reduce US Carbon Emissions

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Dietz, T., Gardner, G.T., Gilligan, J., Stern, P.C., Vandenbergh, M.P. (2009). Household actions can provide a behavioral wedge to rapidly reduce US carbon emissions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 106(44), 18452-18456.
Most climate change policy attention has been addressed to long-term options, such as inducing new, low-carbon energy technologies and creating cap-and-trade regimes for emissions…

Electric Utility Incentives

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Kat Donnelly Palm Springs Dec 28, 2010 21:19 pm
Does anyone know examples of an electric utility using contests or lotteries with monetary or other prizes of value to customers to get them to take some action? I'm particularly …

A Behavioral Analysis of Peaking in Residential Electrical-Energy Consumers

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Kohlenberg, R., Phillips, T., & Proctor, W. (1976). A behavioral analysis of peaking in residential electrical-energy consumers. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 9(1), 13-18.
Investigated the peaking phenomenon, the tendency for electrical energy users to consume at high rates for brief periods during the day, by analyzing the electrical energy consumi…

Consumers' environmental Behavior: Generalized, Sector-Based, or Compensatory?

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Bratt, C. (1999). Consumers' environmental beahvior: Generalized, sector-based, or compensatory?. Environment and Behavior, 31(1), 28-44.
Investigated the possibility that actions meant to improve recycling may have unintended consequences in fields other than the target behavior. The relations between self-reported…

Motivating Residents to Conserve Energy Without Financial Incentives

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McMakin, A., Malone, E., & Lundgren, R. (2002). Motivating residents to conserve energy without financial incentives. Environment and Behavior, 34(6), 848-863.
Given the aim to motivate people to conserve energy in homes, we need to understand what drives people's energy use behavior and how it can be influenced. This article describes a…

Human Values and the Emergence of a Sustainable Consumption Pattern: A Panel Study

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Thogersen, J., & Ölander, F. (2002). Human values and the emergence of a sustainable consumption pattern: A panel study. Journal of Economic Psychology, 23(5), 605-630.
In this study, data from a random sample of Danish consumers are used to test the hypothesis that the emergence of a sustainable consumption pattern is influenced by individual va…

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