Is efficient sufficient?

All information on energy sufficiency is now found on eceee’s new energy sufficiency web site.

The original report Is efficient sufficient? can be found in the energy sufficiency web site library.

eceee report

Is efficient sufficient? The case for shifting our emphasis in energy specifications to progressive efficiency and sufficiency (pdf), 22 March 2010

eceee Summer Study papers

Jørgen S. Nørgard: Efficient technology in an inefficient economy, eceee 1995 Summer Study proceedings
L. Wijshoff & Sophie Attali: Energy+ cold appliances beyond the A label, thanks to pan-European procurement, eceee 2003 Summer Study proceedings
Hal Wilhite & Jørgen S. Nørgard: A case for self-deception in energy policy, eceee 2003 Summer Study proceedings

ACEEE Summer Study papers

Mithra Moezzi: The Predicament of Efficiency (pdf), ACEEE 1998 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Jeffrey Harris et al: Don’t Supersize Me! Toward a Policy of Consumption-Based Energy Efficiency, ACEEE 2006 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Chris Granda et al: Tackling Efficiency Paradoxes. Possible Responses to Today’s Landscape of “Energy-Efficient” 10,000 sq. ft. Houses and 60-inch Televisions, ACEEE 2008 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
Reuben Deumling: Thinking Outside the Refrigerator: Shutting Down Power Plants with NAECA? ACEEE 2004 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings

Energy Efficiency

Jeffrey Harris et al: Towards a sustainable energy balance: progressive efficiency and the return of energy conservation, Energy Efficiency 2008 (available for eceee members from Energy Efficiency, online version, Issue No. 3, August 2008)

Other links & documents

Jack Barkenbus: Putting Energy Efficiency into a Sustainability Context: The Example of Refrigerators (pdf), Environment, October 2006
Linda Baker: Great big green monster mansions, salon.com, 7 July 2004
Martin Holladay: Raising the Bar for Energy Star Homes, 29 April 2009