Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

Attribution on the Cheap

In the last two Rant posts, we learned that our 40-year-old program evaluation frameworks need to change to capture greater, real impacts. Rather than improving programs and accurately determining impacts, archaic evaluation methodologies are impeding progress toward...
Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

Behavior by a Left Brain Efficiency Freak

E2e, and I have no idea what that stands for, is a joint initiative of University of California-Berkeley, The University of Chicago, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their charter is to assess and quantify the energy efficiency gap between estimated, or...
Efficiency’s Problem: Cyborgs, Fragments, and Climate

ENERGY STAR Gets it Right – Owners Complain

Show me the money, Jerry! That is what I have to say about building energy performance. I don’t care for bling and doohickeys. What is the bottom line at the meter? I surmise that ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager[1] was conceived and developed with the best of intentions...