[Greenbuilding] ENERGY STAR Clothes Dryers Program Launch

[Jason Holstine]

The new 2012 international energy conservation code is tighter than Energy
Star. Maryland is adopting it.


On 7/23/12 10:11 AM, "Reuben Deumling" <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

> David, 
> I look forward to following your blog. It seems like a very worthwhile
> project. 
> On your blog you wrote:
> "It¹s not enough to say there are solutions (though it¹s a good start). We
> need solutions that are desirable; not solutions that are adopted only because
> they are necessary. I firmly believe there are futures that simultaneously
> save the environment that nurtures us while allowing, indeed helping, us to
> flourish as individuals and as the species homo sapiens."
> 
> I agree in general, but I suspect you'd concur that the definition of
> desirable is going to have to be divorced from the framework of fossil fuels.
> Many of the things currently understood as convenient in our society are
> drenched in fossil fuels. We're going to have to figure out ways to redefine
> convenience in new ways. Right now a reigning interpretation of how to make
> solutions desirable is Energy Star: pick categories of appliances known to
> flatter middle class tastes (side by side refrigerator with through the door
> ice and water) and tweak the parameters so that they qualify for an Energy
> Star. Rather than discourage the category as a whole as energy authorities did
> through about 1990, now the majority of Energy Star refrigerators are side by
> sides with TTD ice and water. I think this is an unpromising way forward. As
> it stands, the underlying goal of reducing our dependence on fossil fuels has
> taken a back step to encouraging early replacement and trading up.
> 
> I signed up for your blog but suspect maybe that comments aren't enabled there
> yet.
> 
> Reuben
> 
> On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 8:25 PM, David Bergman <bergman at cyberg.com> wrote:
>> At 11:05 PM 7/22/2012, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn wrote:
>> 
>>> I think that forward thinking people discover better ways to do things.
>>> The rest of society only follows when they are forced to.
>> 
>> I think there's more to it than that. People also tend to follow when:
>> 
>> they like what they see
>> they want to be cool like other (forward thinking) people
>> they see personal advantage (health, $, etc.)
>> 
>> These "carrot" methods, arguably, work much better than the stick of
>> requiring people to change.
>> 
>> BTW, this is a significant part of what I'm going to be writing about in my
>> new blog, EcoOptimism ( www.Ecooptimism.com <http://www.ecooptimism.com/> ).
>> 
>> 
>> David Bergman  RA   LEED AP
>> DAVID BERGMAN ARCHITECT / FIRE & WATER LIGHTING + FURNITURE
>> architecture . interiors . ecodesign . lighting . furniture
>> bergman at cyberg.com    www.cyberg.com <http://www.cyberg.com/>
>> 241 Eldridge Street #3R, New York, NY 10002
>> t 212 475 3106    f 212 677 7291 <tel:212%20677%207291>
>> 
>> author - Sustainable Design: A Critical Guide
>> blog - www.EcoOptimism.com <http://www.ecooptimism.com/>
>> adjunct faculty - Parsons The New School for Design
>> 
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