By Declan Ryan, M.Eng.Sc, Carlow/Kilkenny Green Party

Summary
With the twin issues of peak oil and climate change at play we need to reduce our energy consumption by 20% across all activity before 2020. This report proposes and assesses a local door-to-door method (Local Scheme) to persuade householders to reduce their energy consumption. Over a period of [...]

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Introduction
Declan Ryan, M.Eng.Sc, Carlow Kilkenny Greens
The power of one campaign has made a valuable contribution to increasing the efficiency with which energy is used throughout Ireland. It has been used primarily at national level based on advertising on national radio, television and Internet. This is effective in reaching a large number of people quickly but [...]

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