{"id":1665,"date":"2011-10-19T23:14:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T03:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2011-10-22T13:53:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T17:53:47","slug":"breakout-group-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/breakout-group-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakout Group Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Some &#8220;essential questions&#8221; to open the conversation<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>What are the obstacles that business and private citizens have in reducing energy use in buildings?\n<ul>\n<li>Perceptions that it costs too much upfront<\/li>\n<li>Perception that \u201cwhat I do does not matter\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Social norms have been shown to be very powerful in changing behavior.  How might we create a social norm in Needham around energy efficiency?<\/li>\n<li>Ideas for reducing the upfront costs have included  leveraging private and public resources.\n<ul>\n<li>Could financial institutions be encouraged\/incented to invest more in this area?<\/li>\n<li>Might we consider public approaches such as enabling residents to pay for improvements through their property tax bill or providing a revolving loan fund at the municipal level?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Facilitators<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Elsa Cutler<\/strong>, Olin College    <\/li>\n<li><strong>Harrison Smith<\/strong>, Needham High School  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><u>Resources<\/u><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"mailto:claffey@needhamma.gov\">Charles (Chip) J. Laffey<\/a><\/b> &#8211; Director of Facility Operations, Town of Needham\n<ul>\n<li>(781) 455-0442<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"mailto:efrosell@aol.com\">Eleanor Rosellini<\/a><\/b> &#8211; Green Needham and Needham LWV\n<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"mailto:joanne.bissetta@state.ma.us\">Joanne Bissetta<\/a><\/b> &#8211; Green Communities Division, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources\n<ul>\n<li>(978) 694-3315<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4 class=\"c\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Topical Resources<\/span><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DoER-Energy-Efficiency-First-Fuel.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Efficiency in Massachusetts: Our First Fuel <\/a> &#8211; A booklet published by Mass DoER describing the accomplishments and goals of Massachusetts&#8217; energy efficiency policies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some &#8220;essential questions&#8221; to open the conversation What are the obstacles that business and private citizens have in reducing energy use in buildings? Perceptions that it costs too much upfront Perception that \u201cwhat I do does not matter\u201d Social norms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2011-summit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}