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March 10, 2009

What’s a Consumer To Do?

I had an experience yesterday that's parallel to something we see coming up in our ongoing consumer tracking studies. One of our graphic...

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March 5, 2009

Yes, but who?

I went to the Alliance to Save Energy's Great Energy Efficiency Day on Capitol Hill yesterday with two questions in mind: 1) Amidst all the...

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February 26, 2009

Efficiency is the new Green

"Green" may have been the buzzword of 2008, but "efficiency" will be the buzzword of 2009. Despite lots of press coverage to the contrary,...

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February 13, 2009

Don’t believe everything you read

Sustainable Life Media posted something interesting -- and a bit misleading -- from J. D. Power a couple of days ago. The folks at J.D....

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February 9, 2009

Giving them a nudge

Two recent New York Times articles have caught my attention: one that deals directly with motivating consumers to be energy efficient and...

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January 29, 2009

Creating personal accountability for energy use

OK...that may not be the sexiest headline I've ever written, but it's a juicy, giant topic. For years, Shelton Group's Energy Pulse® has...