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Europe’s Energy Neighborhoods

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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…
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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…

Barriers to Standby Power Reduction

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Martin Herrerias Cuernavaca May 18, 2010 10:29 AM
I'm doing research on standby-power consumption of domestic appliances in Mexico. We were originally trying to come up with a device to automatically identify and prevent standby …

Reducing Standby Power by Unplugging Electronics

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Tamara G Toronto January 27, 2010 09:23 PM
Hello, I am looking for potential barriers and benefits to unplugging electronics when they are not in use; as well as any any successful downstream/grassroots programs that ha…

Unplugging Charged Devices

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Unknown November 13, 2009 07:59 PM
I am looking for specific examples of programs that have targeted the issue of standby power use (aka vampire or phantom load). In particular, I am focused on efforts to encourag…

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