Easy but not effective: Why “turning off the lights” remains a salient energy conserving behaviour in the United States
Easy but not effective: Why “turning off the lights” remains a salient energy conserving behaviour in the United States
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简单但无效:为什么“关灯”在美国仍然是一种突出的节能行为
DOI:
10.1016/j.erss.2019.101257
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发表时间:
2019
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
Attari, Shahzeen Z.
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作者:
Lundberg, Daniel C.;Tang, Janine A.;Attari, Shahzeen Z.
When participants are asked how best to save energy in the home, the most frequent response since the 1980s has been “turning off the lights”. Here, we use an online survey (N = 1418) to investigate why turning off the lights persists as a modal response despite decades of energy education promoting far more effective behaviors. We confirm that turning off the lights is still the modal response when participants are asked for the single most effective action they currently do to save energy (36.3% of participants). We find that being taught to turn off the light is an important reason for why turning off the lights has remained so popular. When participants are asked to make a recommendation to a friend between turning off the lights (curtailment action) or replacing incandescent bulbs with CFL or LED bulbs (efficiency action), we observe a remarkable shift towards efficiency (77%) rather than curtailment (23%). We find that participants explain their choice of turning off lights or replacing bulbs with different heuristics. Participants who choose turning off the lights state that energy savings occur when an appliance is completely turned off. Alternatively, those who pick replacing inefficient light bulbs state that far less energy can be used for a given task.
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DOI:
10.1016/s0092-4563(08)36021-8
发表时间:
1974
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影响因子:
--
作者:
Philipp Koehn
通讯作者:
Philipp Koehn
DOI:
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
--
作者:
B. Southwell;A. Betzner;Jacob B. Depue;Barbara Walsh
通讯作者:
Barbara Walsh
影响因子:
9
作者:
L. Lutzenhiser
通讯作者:
L. Lutzenhiser
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
S. Attari;D. Krantz;E. Weber
通讯作者:
E. Weber
影响因子:
39.2
作者:
Schwartz, LM;Woloshin, S;Welch, HG
通讯作者:
Welch, HG