Motivating Home Energy Action - A Handbook of What Works
Australian Greenhouse Office, 2002
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Outline of the handbook
This handbook aims to:
- Show that home energy action is just as much about people as it is about technology. Use social science insights about people to guide home energy action programs. Without householders taking energy actions, we cannot reduce home energy use. One householder may buy an energy efficient fridge. Another may take shorter showers. Both are taking energy actions.
- We could try to avoid involving householders by regulating extensively. But regulations are unlikely to keep pace with changes in technology, households, and social expectations. Table 1, below, gives some idea of the social pressures pushing up home energy use. By themselves, energy efficient technologies and regulations are unlikely to significantly reduce home energy use.
This publication has been prepared by Michelle Shipworth for the Australian Greenhouse Office. While every effort has been made to ensure accuracy and completeness, no guarantee is given, nor responsibility taken by the Commonwealth for errors or omissions in the report, and the Commonwealth does not accept responsibility in respect of any information or advice given in relation to or as a consequence of anything contained here.
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