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The Gift of Resilience
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As we enter the year 2020, we can’t help but to reflect on what we have learned in the past decade…
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Thinking of Home for the Holidays
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Each year, ILLUME gives back to celebrate the holidays. Our culture of giving was embedded in ILLUME from the earliest days.…
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Founders’ Reflections as ILLUME Turns Five
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To celebrate ILLUME’s 5th Anniversary, Anne and Sara reflect on their first five years in business and take a look ahead…
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Hacking Your New Year’s Resolution With Behavioral Science
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Around 5:40 am on a Sunday morning, more than an hour before sunrise, I found myself trudging, bleary-eyed, through the snow.…
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Do Not Compute
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How do we judge the “success” of the holiday season? Some people meticulously document and curate their holiday season in glowing…
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A Paradoxical Holiday
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2017 has been a paradoxical year for ILLUME. We have been so fortunate to build our ILLUME family with the generous…
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Small Business And Behavioral Energy Efficiency
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In her BECC 2017 presentation, Eileen Hannigan share an overview of her statewide potential study of the behavioral savings potential—and tactics…
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Clearing Up the Unclear Savings of Advanced Thermostats in Illinois
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In this presentation, Pace Goodman shares how he got agreement on smart thermostat evaluation methods across more than 15 stakeholder groups…
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Growing Stronger Together After An Energy Crisis: A Humanized Energy-Scape
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As hurricanes pummel the shores of states and island communities, the primacy of energy in sustaining our lives is brought to…
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Pulling The Plug On The Telephone Game
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I am in Copenhagen this week for six early mornings of 75-minute yoga sessions. You may be wondering, “A transatlantic flight…
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Commercial Behavioral Program Evaluability Assessment
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ILLUME conducted this evaluability assessment for a utility client’s Commercial Behavioral Program (CBP) to ensure it was on track to collect…
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Investing in Team Retreats
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More and more companies are switching to models that include numerous offices and remote workers. For example, at ILLUME, our headquarters…
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How Many Women Are Enough? Nine.
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You may have seen that ILLUME is hiring. We are in fact in a phase of pretty rapid growth, adding 5…
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We March! We March For What? We March For Whom?
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This spring has been a season of marches and protests as engaged individuals have turned out by the millions in support…
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We’re Blushing!
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March has been full of unexpected good news. We are excited to share with all of you not one–but two–pretty fantastic…
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Award Winning Website… But What Does it Mean?
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This Saturday, the ILLUME website received a Gold ADDY Award at the 35th Annual American Advertising Federation Tucson (AAF Tucson). This…
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Conservatives And Conservation In The Midwest
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My home state of Wisconsin voted for a Republican in this presidential election, and with that victory came the reelection of…
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A Love Letter
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There is a slight sense of dread in the energy efficiency industry these days. Dread that comes with the uncertainty of…
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Natural Gas Segmentation Study
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Anne Dougherty, Amanda Dwelley, and Shannon Kahl studied the attitudes and behaviors of natural gas consumers in the Pacific Northwest. They…
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Competition! Competition! – Can An App Change Your Behavior?
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A couple of weeks ago, we published the blog Wanna, Hafta, Track, Win. In that post, we talked about considering when…
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Existing Homes Process Evaluation
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Energy Trust of Oregon contracted with ILLUME Advising, LLC to provide a process evaluation of their Existing Homes program. Anne Dougherty…
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Wanna, Hafta, Track, Win – Can An App Change Your Behavior?
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Through a combination of secondary and primary research on apps designed to support behavior modification, we found there are four keys…
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Energy Usage Tracking: What We Can Learn From a Fitbit?
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Should utility interactions and payment plans be more like banking or more like phone service? I recently heard a speaker discuss…
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One Year Of Yoga
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About a year ago, I decided to try doing yoga every day for a year. I think this was prompted by…