Thursday, March 12th: A New Model for Improving
Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Dan Valianti, Next Step Living
Location
The First Parish in Cambridge Unitarian
Universalist 3 Church Street Harvard Square
Cambridge, MA
Time
Program begins at 7:30 PM Doors open at 7:00 PM
Existing buildings consume more than 40% of the energy used in
the United States -- and residential buildings by themselves
consume almost as much as total transportation. While we worry
about fuel efficient cars, energy use in our homes has received
much less attention from the general public and policy makers.
Few of the 120 million homes in the U.S. take advantage of energy
audits offered by utility companies. More importantly, a study by
Hagler Bailly showed that only a small percent of
recommendations were actually carried out by the homeowner;
other "improvements" sold to customers have also failed to result
in the promised energy savings.
Dan Valianti will discuss the issues surrounding this critical
problem, and the new model from Next Step Living, formed in July
of 2008, for overcoming the barriers to creating real
improvements in energy efficiency in our homes.
Dan is an energy professional with twenty years of experience in
various roles at both not-for-profit organizations and for profit
ventures. He served three terms in the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, where he founded and Chaired the Joint
Committee on Energy/Renewable Energy Resources. Dan also
worked at Ceres, where he launched and managed Ceres'
Northeast Climate and Energy Program.
If you are concerned about reducing our energy use, please join us
for this important discussion.
And remember, your donations help support BASEA, the Boston
Area Solar Energy Association.
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