The visual arts can significantly improve overall energy efficiency within our built environments, by pursuing renewable and retrofit initiatives, adopting protocols for exhibitions and offices, and thoughtful data management. Our goals:
- Gathering energy use data needed for measuring the climate impacts of powering internal and external facilities, integrating these practices within accounting and reporting protocols
- Setting meaningful annual goals for reducing overall energy consumption within the built-environment, and monitoring yearly progress
- Investigating local and national renewable energy initiatives and partnerships as a pathway to emissions reductions
- Incorporating energy reducing policies within office practices, data management, and ensuring cloud-based services are powered by renewable sources
- Determining potential for revisiting temperature standards for exhibition spaces and storage facilities
- After reductions, consider implementation of verifiable offsets and supporting nature based climate solutions
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