How to Make Sense of Our Energy Conservation Dilemma

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Tip 1 - The Efficiency Dilemma - The New Yorker

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Michelle Larson | permalink

If our machines use less energy, will we just use them more?

For further reading: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/12/20/the-efficiency-dilemma ^[1]

Tip 2 - Energy Conservation: A Social Dilemma Approach

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Azger | permalink

By Charles Samuelson in Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation.

For further reading: http://www.academia.edu/781752/Energy_Conservation_A_Social_Dilemma_Approach ^[2]

Tip 3 - The economic view of systemic efficiency: rebound and backfire—Jevons’ legacy | Beyond this Brief Anomaly on WordPress.com

Published: 9 years, 3 month(s) ago | Submitted by Zalkind Lincoln | permalink

As I stoke the boilers here at Beyond this Brief Anomaly after another (much) longer-than-anticipated intermission, it’s worth checking in on what this project has been all about to date. In a nutshell: I’ve attempted to make some modest in-roads into improving how we make sense of energy-related concepts, given the central role that I…

For further reading: http://beyondthisbriefanomaly.org/2014/04/25/the-economic-view-of-systemic-efficiency-rebound-and-backfire-jevons-legacy/ ^[3]