Energy Conservation and
Renewables:
Energy conservation must be made a major
national goal. We must establish federal, state, and local policies, as well as
encourage personal attitudes that will promote more efficient energy use and
better conservation of energy resources. The following steps are some of many
that should be pursued with vigor:
- Land-use controls and urban designs to
reduce transportation demands.
- Efficient and attractive public
transportation systems and smaller, more efficient private vehicles.
- "Total
energy" systems, which usefully employ "waste" heat.
- Energy-efficient buildings designed to
lower requirements for artificial heating, cooling, and lighting.
- The direct use of pipeline quality gas
instead of electricity generated from such gas for heating, and the use of
heat pumps where practical.
- Products with longer lives, lower average
energy demand, and greater efficiencies. These features should be specified
on product labels.
- The recycling of materials and reuse of
containers, and the elimination of unnecessary packaging.
- The use of renewable energy sources, such
as solar energy, wind power, and geothermal power.
- Improved energy conversion, storage, and
transmission efficiency.
Adopted by the Board of Directors, January
20-21, 1973
from the Sierra Club's
website: www.sierraclub.org/policy/conservation/energycons.asp
Highlighting and color added on items #3, #5
and #9 above by us to point out Sierra Club's direct and in-direct support of
total energy (cogeneration).
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