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Energy Use: The Human Dimension (1984)
Board on Environmental Change and Society (BECS)

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Energy Use: The Human Dimension

bills, utility, 120

energy audit, 94

information on, 36, 3738, 87, 89, 100, 195–96, 198

recommendations about, 101, 195–96, 198

welfare programs, 19

blackouts, 132, 145

Bradley Plan, 98

brownouts, 145

budgets, organizational, 110, 112–13, 116, 200

buildings codes, 124, 163, 175, 176

buildings

certification, 86, 121, 129, 197, 198

design, 38, 140

energy choices, 4849

energy costs, 62

energy emergencies, 140

energy invisibility, 39, 119

energy standards, 126–27

energy use, 42, 52

engineers, designers, and architects, 125–26

intermediaries, 117–19, 129

investments in energy, 33, 50, 122

ratings, 101, 197, 198

rented space, 119–22

Canada

energy programs, 27, 7580

Carter administration

energy information, 75

energy policy, 56

gasoline taxes, 47

rail transportation, 54 n. 5

cellulose insulation, 43

Census Bureau, U.S., 44

centralization

energy use, 108–9

See also decentralization

certification programs, 86, 121, 129, 198

choice, 4748, 69, 9596

and energy views, 17, 18

limited, 4852, 119–20, 124, 127

city government

energy coordinator, 175

energy costs, 19

energy programs, 177

See also local energy action

coal

burning of, 22, 24

as a commodity, 15, 17

energy emergencies, 145

and energy invisibility, 35

strikes, 132, 135, 136–37

comfort, 127

commitment, 6971, 9596

commodity view of energy, 1517, 152–53, 195

energy information, 76

local action, 169, 170

and other energy views, 2021, 22, 2329

communication, 5758, 6769, 184, 186, 199

energy audits, 56, 93, 96, 196

energy conservation, 195–96

energy emergencies, 146, 147, 149–50, 158–59, 185, 186, 201

government programs, 7475, 80, 86, 176, 189

local energy action, 177, 179

recommendations about, 100–01, 195–99, 201

communities, 183

energy emergencies, 142–43

energy programs, 45, 97

See also local energy action

community control philosophy, 171, 172

community development philosophy, 171, 172

conflict, social

in energy emergencies, 3, 143–44, 201

local energy action, 171–72

conservation. See energy conservation

construction industry

energy efficiency, 118–19

energy standards, 126, 127–28

consumer, energy user as, 6263

consumer goods and services

monitoring, 199200

production of, 122–23

consumer protection

in energy programs, 99, 196–97

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