David B. Goldstein Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

This is an honorary position that complements my ongoing formal role as Board member.

Boston

I was one of the founders of CEE and have served on the Board for over 30 years. CEE is a collaborative program between energy efficiency program administrators (usually utilities) and nonprofit efficiency advocates, and I have helped create and maintain good relationships of trust between these interests, resulting in more ambitious but realistic specifications that utilities can choose to employ for their programs.

I have served as RESNET President for the maximum two years and have worked to increase the professionalism and objectivity of home energy ratings, leading the successful effort to provide carbon emission ratings that are calculated correctly.

San Francisco, California Usa

I advocate policies and activities at the national, regional, nonprofit, and global scale that can limit climate change to 1.5 degrees. One of these activities is simply demonstrating the feasibility of meeting ambitious goals such as this: if governments and businesses do not try to meet the goal, perhaps because they doubt its possibility, they will not implement actions that could have realized it. I often post articles on political or policy subjects that are not within the scope of the programs at the nonprofits that I direct or manage. I advocate policies at the national, regional, nonprofit, and global scale that can limit climate change to 1.5 degrees. I often post articles on political or policy subjects that are not within the scope of the programs at the nonprofits that I direct or manage.

I built NRDC’s energy efficiency team from three people when I began to some 100 in 2024, expanding from a largely regional advocacy effort to also work globally at both the national and the regional level. I was the lead negotiator for legislation that established national appliance efficiency standards in 1987, and for pieces of the energy legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress in 2005 that adopted tax incentives for highly efficient buildings and equipment in 2005 (which were extended and refreshed, most recently in 2022). My work also introduced location efficiency into the mix of efficiency policies, and included extensive comments and advocacy on the implementation of efficiency laws concerning building codes and incentives and correcting failures of markets in efficiency. Most recently I have guided several consensus standards to require strong actions and gotten them adopted by overwhelming majorities of voters.

I co-founded NBI in 1998, and have served on the Board ever since, including 20 years as Chair. I helped grow the organization from a minor player in a limited number of forums to an organization that is known and influential throughout North America. I helped the Board transition from a group of stakeholders with some serious divisiveness among the themselves, at times, to one with greater unity of purpose and vision, notwithstanding the greatly increased level of diversity at the individual level that I encouraged in recent years.

Washington, D.C.

As Board chair, I helped the organization to first achieve its major goal of international collaboration on the development and adoption/implementation of building codes, starting with collaboration with the Soviet Union and extending to the Russian Federation’s adoption of an energy code co-developed with the Russian Ministry of Construction, that cut energy consumption by about half and improved enforcement. I contributed to a very successful effort to diversify the organization in terms of Board and staff personnel as well as enhancing its mission and goals.