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Culture Over Carbon: understanding the impact of museums’ energy use

“Few cultural institutions have the ability or resources to monitor and assess their energy use, despite the increasing availability of tools and software and the many awareness-raising efforts by professional groups. The need to track this information is becoming critical as more building codes and policies are enacted that will require compliance from buildings in the cultural sector.

 

This project sought to conduct the [US museum] sector’s first in-depth review of the energy use patterns of cultural institutions and develop a roadmap for energy reduction at individual institutions and the sector.” (p.7)