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Host: Todd Rogers
Consulting Editor: Christina Knight
Sustainable Action Matters (SAM) is a production of Energy Training Solutions (ETS), which is a leader in behavioral energy management, energy education and workforce development. SAM host, Todd Rogers, CEM has been designing innovative programs in the energy and education fields for more than 25 years. His energy management and program design services are utilized by K-12 schools, energy service companies, housing authorities, utilities, and government agencies. In 2002, he founded ETS to provide programming designed to increase client knowledge and skills related to energy, sustainability, and the environment. His experience includes the management of energy performance contracting projects, development of curricula used nationwide for K-12 students and home performance training programs, and coordination of statewide energy education programming.
Are We All On Board for Electrification?
Part One - The Basics
In Part One of a special two-part episode you’ll hear from Sean Brennan, Associate Director of Research for Urban Green Council - Donovan Gordon, Director of Clean Heating and Cooling for NYSERDA - Ian Shapiro, Founder of Taitem Engineering - Donna Whitsett, Managing Consultant at TRC Companies.
Part Two - The Challenge of Electrifying Large Buildings - One State’s Efforts to Transform the Market
Even with the existing power mix in America’s grid, we make significant environmental gains by electrifying our buildings. Part 2 will discuss the technical and financial barriers that large building owners face in making the choice to electrify, and what kind of behavioral nudges can be applied to move them.
Are we “Messaging” or Having a Conversation? - Reaching Communities of Color
Allison Musvosi, Senior Research Analyst, Illume Advising
Emotional Charge: An Artist’s Response to the Climate Emergency
Eve Mosher, Environmental Artist
Scaling (Way) Up: Changing the Energy Behaviors of a Million Service Members
Eileen Westervelt, PE, CEM, QCxP, LEED-AP, Senior Research Mechanical Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Just Follow the Steps: An Accessible and Proven Approach to Behavior Change
Joey Schmitt, Project Director at Action Research
Opening Green Careers to People of Color
Michele Knox, Brooklyn Program Director, The HOPE Program
Making the Sustainable Choice the Easy Choice
Pauli Ojea, Senior Commercial Toxics Reduction Coordinator at San Francisco Department of the Environment
How Can We Make Recycling Easier?
Susan Attridge, Director of Refuse and Recycling for the City of Buffalo, NY
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