Evidence-Based Background Material Underlying Guidance for Federal Agencies in Implementing Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans - Implementing Sustainability: The Institutional-Behavioral Dimension

Technical Report · Sat Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1083000· OSTI ID:1083000

Malone, Elizabeth L. ^[1]; Sanquist, Tom ^[1]; Wolfe, Amy K. ^[2]; Diamond, Rick ^[3]; Payne, Christopher ^[3]; Dion, Jerry ^[4]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
2. Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
3. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
4. US Department of Energy (USDOE), Washington DC (United States)

This document is part of a larger, programmatic effort to assist federal agencies in taking action and changing their institutions to achieve and maintain federal sustainability goals, while meeting their mission goals. FEMP is developing guidance for federal agency efforts to enable institutional behavior change for sustainability, and for making sustainability “business as usual.” The driving requirement for this change is Executive Order (EO) 13514, Federal Leadership in Environmental, Energy, and Economic Performance. FEMP emphasizes strategies for increasing energy efficiency and renewable energy utilization as critical components of attaining sustainability, and promotes additional non-energy action pathways contained in EO 13514. This report contributes to the larger goal by laying out the conceptual and evidentiary underpinnings of guidance to federal agencies. Conceptual frameworks focus and organize the development of guidance. We outline a series of progressively refined conceptual frameworks, including a multi-layer approach, key steps in sustainability implementation, a process view of specific approaches to institutional change, the agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans (SSPPs), and concepts related to context-specific rules, roles and tools for sustainability. Additionally, we tap pertinent bodies of literature in drawing eight evidence-based principles for behavior change. These principles are important foundations upon which to build in selecting strategies to effect change in organizations. Taken together, this report presents a suite of components that inform the training materials, presentations, web site, and other products that provide guidance to federal agencies.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Energy Efficiency Office. Federal Energy Management Program Office
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1083000
• Report Number(s): ORNL/TM--2013/107; EL1703010; CEEL035
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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