Aileen Lem's List: let's save the world

• • Activation Energy
   
  • Opportunity cost
   
  • Inertia
   
  • Ego/willpower depletion
   
  • Neurosis/fear/etc
   
  • Altering of hormonal balance
   
  • Maintenance costs from the idea re-emerging in your thoughts

• Books are smart and brilliant and wise. Love what you do and do what you love. Don’t listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.
• Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, ‘Take me home!’ And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I’ve written every day in the last 75 years. I’ve never stopped writing
• If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don’t know how to read, you don’t know how to decide. That’s the great thing about our country — we’re a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way

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• You can break this barrier when knowledge, focus, and control are shared among more than one silo. The solution is about losing tower vision and being able to look at--and see--things from a different person’s or department’s point of view.
• These five questions will help you understand your organization's siloing--and move beyond it:
• • What priorities do you or your department have that are not aligned with another’s?
  • Put yourself in the place of the other silo--what would make that silo realize that your need was a priority?
  • What information do you or your department have that could be useful to others?
  • What information or assistance do you need from another silo that you are not getting?
  • In what areas would increased collaboration and giving up some autonomy be more beneficial for the company than maintaining your individuality?

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• Abstract |   Cortisol and Dehydroepiandrosterone |   CRH |   Locus Coeruleus-Norepinephrine System |   Neuropeptide Y |   Galanin |   Dopamine |   Serotonin |   Benzodiazepine Receptors |   Gonadal Steroids |   Reward, Fear Conditioning, and Social Behavior |   Regulation of Reward |   The Neural Mechanisms of Anxiety and Fear |   The Neural Basis of Social Behavior |   Future Research Directions |   References 

• behavioral insights identified as being used in one or more behavior-based energy efficiency programs
• Social Norms:
• may include comparing one person or group’s energy choices to another person or group’s
• Feedback:
• Providing the people within your organization with ongoing information about energy costs and energy savings, along with acknowledging individuals or groups that have contributed to those results will help everyone better understand and accept their role in energy efficiency
• Status Quo:
• changing efficiency to an opt out choice rather than an opt in
• External Barriers:
• create an open path to energy-behavior change
• Asking people to change their light bulbs may be cost prohibitive to some.  By providing light bulbs, you are removing the barrier
• Public Commitment:
• Asking energy program participants to sign a pledge or show their commitment via your organization’s Facebook or Twitter page is a great way to increase both visibility and commitment to reducing energy use
• Goal Setting:
• People are motivated to meet goals which they help to set
• may choose to set goals for your organization as a whole via voting on a list of options, or have people set individual goals for themselves or by department

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