Edited by Edward Vine, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Drury Crawley, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Paul Centolella, Ohio Office of the Consumers' Counsel
Energy efficiency in homes, the workplace and transportation provides one of the most immediate and valuable solutions to the environmental problems that endanger our world. This book addresses the direct correlation between conserving energy and mitigating environmental hazards such as global warming, air pollution, acid rain, and ozone depletion.
Twenty chapters focus on how energy efficiency measures and programs can reduce pollutant emissions, and how planners can incorporate environmental externalities in the allocation of natural resources. Based on papers presented at the ACEEE 1990 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings, the book is written by leading researchers, program analysts and policymakers. Topics include:
Anyone concerned about the relationship between energy efficiency and restoring the health of our environment will find this book useful. Researchers, program managers, policymakers, and environmental interest groups will find it of particular interest.
"One can find here...scientific data most relevant to the challenges declaimed in popular terms by Vice President Gore, in both his book and public statements."
-- Leonard W. Doob, Phi Beta Kappa Society, The Key Reporter
"...a treasure-trove of data on one of the most important and fast-growing
research and development areas."
-- Home Energy Magazine
Introduction Energy Efficiency and the Environment: Forging the Link by Ed Vine, Dru Crawley and Paul Centolella
Chapter 1 Energy Efficiency and Greenhouse-Gas Emission Reductions; Some International Results by Paul Schwengels and William J. Pepper
Chapter 2 Lay Perspectives on Global Climate Change by Willett Kempton
Chapter 3 Environmental Improvement and Energy Efficiency in Buildings: Opportunities to Reduce CO2 Emissions by Erich Unterwurzacher and Genevieve McInnes
Chapter 4 Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Energy Efficiency in U.K. Buildings by George Henderson and Les Shorrock
Chapter 5 Environmental Benefits of Energy Efficiency: Impact of Washington State Residential Energy Codes on Greenhouse-Gas Emissions by Richard Byers
Chapter 6 The CO2 Diet for a Greenhouse Planet: Assessing Individual Actions for Slowing Global Warming by John M. DeCicco, James H. Cook, Dorene Bolze, and Jan Beyea
Chapter 7 Emissions Impacts of Demand-Side Programs: What Have We Achieved So Far and How Will Recent Policy Decisions Change Program Choices? by Richard S. Tempchin, A. Joseph Van den Berg, Vera B. Geba, Curtis S. Felix, and Marc W. Goldsmith
Chapter 8 The Global Climate Change Issue--What It Is, Where It Is Going, and How It Will Impact Utility DSM by Bonnie B. Jacobson and David W. Kathan
Chapter 9 Integrated Resource Planning and the Clean Air Act by Daniel M. Violette and Carolyn M. Lang
Chapter 10 Consideration of Environmental Externality Costs in Electric Utility Resource Selections and Regulation by Richard L. Ottinger
Chapter 11 Valuation of Environmental Externalities in Energy Conservation Planning by Paul L. Chernick and Emily J. Caverhill
Chapter 12 Incorporating Environmental Externalities in Integrated Resource Planning: One Utility's Experience by Dean S. White, Timothy M. Stout, and Mary Sharpe Hayes
Chapter 13 The Inclusion of Environmental Goals in Electric Resource Evaluation: A Case Study in Vermont by Stephen Bernow and Donald Marron
Chapter 14 Air Pollution Projection Methodologies: Integrating Emission Projections with Energy Forecasts by Michael R. Jaske
Chapter 15 Conserving Energy to Reduce SO2 Emissions in Ohio: An Evaluation using a Multiobjective Electric Power Production Costing Model by Benjamin F. Hobbs and James S. Heslin
Chapter 16 Building Energy Consumption and the Environment: What Past, Present, and Future Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Surveys Can Tell Us About Chlorofluorocarbons by Julia D. Oliver and Eugene M. Burns
Chapter 17 Measured Cooling Savings from Vegetative Landscaping by Alan K. Meier
Chapter 18 Simulating Effects of Turf Landscaping on Building Energy Use by James R. Simpson
Chapter 19 Economic Modeling for Large-Scale Urban Tree Plantings by E. Gregory McPherson
Chapter 20 A Synopsis of Cooling our Communities: The Guidebook on Tree Planting and Light-Colored Surfaces by Joe Huang, Susan Davis, and Hashem Akbari
ISBN 0-918249-12-0
Soft cover, 6" x 9", 418 pp., index, 1991, $28.00
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