Webinar: Take a Load off Toronto Clothesline Campaign

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Jay Kassirer Ottawa Jan 13, 2011 16:00 pm
This case study illustrates the benefits of distributing low cost, high impact technologies and products through giveaway events at retail settings, with a short, in-person educat…
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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…

Saving Energy on College Campuses

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Susan Beckett Boulder Dec 31, 2010 12:45 pm
Hello Everyone, I am looking for research that has hard data on the amount of energy and water that can be saved using cbsm guidelines on college campuses. Is anyone aware of …

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 …

Office Behavior re Energy & Water

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Jill Boone San Jose Dec 9, 2010 11:29 am
We are interested in engaging our employees in helping us reach our GHG reduction goals and I've been looking for a list of actions that are repetitive (e.g. turning off your comp…

Renewable Power

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albert potter NY Nov 26, 2010 8:09 am
Hi friends, I am preparing a presentation on various types of renewable energy resources. The content available on internet is all hocus pocus and I am quite unable to find deta…

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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