Long Now
In 01995, computer scientist Danny Hillis wrote,"I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo ...
Green Interfaces
Experience and interaction designs for sustainability
About
This blog addresses sustainability in design, especially in experience and interaction design. Ideas, tools, and applications with an eye towards sustainable living are multiplying. I found that I was gathering a sizable cache of resources by my own research, and I hope that by sharing it I can inspire others.
Michael Gomez
Interaction Designer, Austin TX
A Much Needed Device, Much in Need of Design
Spend any time researching the current field of home energy monitoring products and you're very likely to see mention of the Kill-A-Watt, a device from P3 International. The Kill-A-Watt can read the energy use of an appliance plugged into it, and is marketed as a tool for identifying the ...
Mobile App For Greening Daily Trips
Eco2Go, a mobile application concept from engineering students in Canada, generates carbon footprint information by tracking movement throughout the day. The home screen on the Eco2Go prototype shows a Google map with current trip information and the estimated pounds of CO2 since the last carbon offset.
Significantly, ...
Newspaper coverage of smart electricity in Texas
Houston Chronicle photos
Two recent front-page articles in mainstream city newspapers covered the emergence of smart metering in Texas. I think it's a good indication that these technologies and devices are nearing the mainstream here.
The Austin American-Statesman covered the installation from the perspective of utility efficiency ...
Household CO2 Emission Visualizations
Posted by Kyra Edeker
The Victoria, Australia government is running an ad pitching
conservation by depicting an average household's production of greenhouse
gases. Black balloons sprouting from appliances, lamps and electronics
each represent 50g of greenhouse emissions.
The quiet commercial feels slightly sinister, with the dark balloons
sprouting out of the empty house. It's an ...
Tahoe Hybrid Energy Dashboard
This weekend I opened my new issue of The New Yorker (now you've got me pegged) and noticed something interesting about the inside cover ad spread. The most prominent selling point in this Earth Day ad for the Chevy Tahoe Hybrid is the SUV's screen interface. The caption reads:
Visual readout of ...
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