Reducing Energy
Consumption and
Creating a Conservation
Culture in Organizations:
A Case Study of One
Public School District is an article written by Chelsea Schelly, Jennifer E. Cross, William S. Franzen, Pete Hall, and Stu Reeve. This article researches two high schools from the same school district with different energy consumption levels. The average dollar amount of money being spent towards energy usage totals out to be around 6 billion dollars annually. The researchers state that more money being spent on energy than is being spent on text books and computers combined. The study found that an older, energy costly high school could still conserve energy by implementing energy saving tactics as simple as reducing light usage, unplugging electronics while not being used in the class room etc. The second high school was newly built and more structurally energy efficient. Researchers found that the newer high school was less likely to implement energy reducing tactics because the building itself was already energy efficient by itself. If a school district wants to save on energy without rebuilding its whole infrastructure, there are behavioral tasks that can be done to reduce the amount of energy being produced.
