Weatherization works: Final report of the National Weatherization Evaluation

Brown,; Berry, Linda; Kinney, L.F.

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“…In 1990, about 64% of U.S. house holds owned their own homes (U.S. Bureau of the Cen sus, 1997a), and the median house hold income was $29,943 (U.S. Bureau of the Cen sus, 1997b). The typ i cal U.S. house hold energy expen di tures have remained fairly con sis tent over the past two decades, stay ing between 3% and 5% of house hold income (Brown, Berry, & Kinney, 1994;Klausner, 1979;National Consumer Law Cen ter, 1989).…”

Section: Hu Man Be Hav Ior and En Ergy Con Sump Tionmentioning

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“…The desire for com fort is a strong pre dic tor of house hold energy behav ior (Becker et al, 1981;Gladhart, Weihl, & Krabacher, 1988;Seligman et al, 1978;. Researchers reported that occu pants per ceived their com fort to notice ably improve as a result of weatherization (Brown et al, 1994;. Peters (1990) con cluded that the most impor tant atti tude was com fort and sug gested that atti tudes involving com fort have more influ ence on con ser va tion behav iors than conser va tion atti tudes.…”

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Occupant Predictors of Household Energy Behavior and Consumption Change as Found in Energy Studies Since 1975

Guerin

Yust

Coopet

2000

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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Reported research since 1975 on human behavior and energy consumption was reviewed to identify occupant predictors of household energy‐consumption behavior and energy‐consumption change. The results of this review were framed against a human ecosystem theory model. Occupant predictors of reduced energy‐consumption behavior and energy‐consumption change were classified as occupant characteristics, occupant attitudes, and occupant actions. Variables identified in studies that most frequently affected energy behavior and energy consumption were income, age, education, home ownership, desire for comfort, major weatherization, and incentives. These findings support the underlying premise of the human ecosystem theory: Variables from the natural, the social, and the designed environments and human organism variables interact to affect energy consumption.

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Section: Hu Man Be Hav Ior and En Ergy Con Sump Tionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Oc Cu Pant At Ti Tudesmentioning

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Occupant Predictors of Household Energy Behavior and Consumption Change as Found in Energy Studies Since 1975

Guerin

Yust

Coopet

2000

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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“…The plans for these evaluations, which also include the surveys used in this research, are found in Ternes, Schweitzer, Tonn, Schmoyer, and Eisenberg () and Tonn et al (). The last time WAP was evaluated was in the early 1990s (Brown, Berry, & Kinney, ). A national committee of weatherization stakeholders was convened to help design the goals of the evaluations.…”

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Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Upon the Department of Energy Weatherization Assistance Program

Tonn¹,

Hawkins²,

Rose

2016

Review of Policy Research

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The Department of Energy (DOE) administers the national low-income Weatherization Assistance Program (WAP). Under this program, DOE provides grants to states (grantees), which then provide grants to local weatherization agencies (subgrantees), to weatherize income-eligible homes for free. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 allocated $5 billion in funding to WAP, a very significant increase from an annual appropriation that ranged in the $200-250 million range for many years. As part of a major evaluation of WAP, states and local weatherization agencies were surveyed, in part, to assess their experiences during the ARRA period. The substantial funding increase created a number of issues for the national weatherization network: the political visibility of their programs increased significantly, organizational responsibilities were shifted, new laws and regulations were passed that impacted their programs, media attention of their programs increased, federal oversight of their programs increased; and programmatic costs increased because of the increased oversight and because ARRA required WAP to operate under the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. There was some concern within the national weatherization network that the influx of ARRA funds would permanently damage nonfederal funding leveraging relationships. However, two-thirds of grantees and over 40% of subgrantees stated that they believe that the long-term impacts of ARRA on leveraging relationships will be positive.

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“…So, evaluating the identities of others is part of evaluating oneself. In addition, comment about language variation is where social evaluations are made, for example, among peers, as illustrated in the work reviewed by Bradford Brown et al (1994). This latter function of metalanguage is the main focus of this chapter.…”

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“…From the point of view of language, Bradford Brown, Mory and Kinney (1994) maintain that teenagers' images of identities available to them are formed and refined not simply through observation of peer groups, but also through evaluative conversations about them with their friends. Hence evaluative language and in particular the lexical typologies of these teenagers are Brought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services Authenticated Download Date | 6/19/15 1:54 PM an important part of this process of establishing identities.…”

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Adolescents’ lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs

Garrett¹,

Coupland²,

Williams³

2004

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Weatherization works: Final report of the National Weatherization Evaluation

Cited by 8 publications

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Occupant Predictors of Household Energy Behavior and Consumption Change as Found in Energy Studies Since 1975

Occupant Predictors of Household Energy Behavior and Consumption Change as Found in Energy Studies Since 1975

Assessment of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Upon the Department of Energy Weatherization Assistance Program

Adolescents’ lexical repertoires of peer evaluation: Boring prats and English snobs

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