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Given the number of sustainability projects and initiatives underway within most federal agencies, the key question becomes: How should managers in the federal government implement and measure the benefits of sustainable practices? In attempting to tackle this question and assist government executive charged with wrestling with it, we present a new Center report, Best Practices for Leading Sustainability Efforts, by Jonathan M. Estes.
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Today, we will focus on the two remaining drivers that play a critical role in an energy strategy: People and Technology.
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Energy Strategy is the roadmap to a sustainable environment. People, Process and Technology all play critical roles in this strategy and ultimately, have a significant effect on our environment.
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Yesterday, we introduced three approaches for consideration as organizations begin the initial stages of developing an energy strategy and plan.
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Yesterday, we introduced three approaches for consideration as organizations begin the initial stages of developing an energy strategy and plan. We went into detail about what it means to focus on equipment. Today, we will focus on the remaining two levels/approaches: what it means to focus on the people and what it means to focus on the process/system.
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Creating and disseminating an executable, unambiguous and widely adopted vision with supporting goals is one of the first steps to successful goal setting and implementation for any organization. The more complex the initiative and the larger the organization, the more important the creation and adoption of a shared vision becomes.
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Welcome to our Energy blog series of posts, articles, thoughts, and musings on ways to not only improve your agency's mission effectiveness, but save money at the same time. For the next three weeks, we hope to engage you with energy discussions on efficiency, conservation, security, and strategy.
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This report presents findings from an International City/County Management Association (ICMA) survey that was sent to over 8,000 local governments across the nation.
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In this final post on energy management, we’ll share how our experiences, and the concept of energy management, can be applied to help the public sector achieve similar savings. We’ll also introduce some ideas that can help government agencies accelerate energy cost reductions—even during this extended period of budget pressures.
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In the last post, we used IBM BTV as an example of how the goal to increase reliability and to become more competitive in the chip manufacturing market evolved into a terrific Energy Management Program (EMP). In this post, we’ll describe the high-level nuts and bolts of an EMP, and how it can be applied to federal agencies to help cut costs, reduce CO2, and wean the country from its dependence on foreign oil.
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In the last post, we discussed the importance of energy management for the federal government and why it’s such a big deal. In this post, we’ll recount the successes of our chip manufacturing plant in Burlington, VT (IBM BTV).
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