This suggests that towards achieving efficient energy choices, one way by which households' behaviour can be in line with energy efficient choices somewhat depends on the extent to which they are environmentally conscious or informed.
Examples of choice architecture, such as, enabling procurement systems to query green products, changing default settings in mechanical systems, and requiring the use of pay back period calculators to account for cognitive limitations of the decision maker, are suggested and supported by behavioral science research to help direct facility managers towards energy efficient choices.
New labels and indexes will be tools to help consumers and business leaders make better choices, but if we don't make many, many more energy efficient choices -- each of us every day -- they are useless... and we're in trouble.
There is a need to change the design of incentives so as to make the least energy-efficient choice the most expensive.
The report is only the latest in a series involving the 18-year-old EnergyStar program, which was set up to guide the public on energy-efficient choices that could both save people money and help reduce the nation's runaway energy consumption.
The Dark Sky Society, a Long Island, New York based advocacy group, has published guidance that clearly illustrates the types of light fixtures that best protect against light pollution, which often are the most energy-efficient choices as well.
Impulse turbines with tailwater depression are an efficient choice for energy recovery in drinking water systems.
But at least the Energy Star label allows consumers to make an informed choice and choose the more "energy efficient" model.
The importance of reducing building energy usage and thriving for more energy efficient architectures, has nurtured creative solutions and smart choices of materials in the last few decades.
"We can make cars more energy efficient.
