Nuage Vert was a project in Helsinki that "transforms clouds into projection surfaces." In effect, a laser picks out pollution coming from a power station. (via) No related posts.

A little bit more about the Yello Google PowerMeter interface for Sparzähler online.  The utility has videos on its web promotion page, as well as a YouTube channel, including a video that shows the user experience on the home computer in more detail. The start page also features an advert with ...

Yet another energy awareness savvy article appears this weekend in the New York Times.  It discusses the powerful motivator of friendly competition to modify energy use behavior.  When people have a notion of normal behavior, they tend to change what they do. Robert Cialdini, a social psychologist at Arizona State University, studies ...

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 ...

Tom Raftery* at lowerfootprint.com notes that soon Dopplr will be adding carbon footprinting to the service. Dopplr is a social networking site for frequent travelers, designed to aid serendipity in travel. Users can tell their friends and colleagues of travel plans, and see who's going to be at ...

Harry Ward’s prototype for his Orb energy monitor is an example of a simple and attractive device for monitoring real-time energy home use. Dan Lockton writes about the Orb on his blog, Architectures of Control: Design with Intent: Recent design graduate Harry Ward’s Orb energy monitor is especially attractive: a toroidal ...

Along with geognerd's insights in the comments of yesterday's post, I've found some interesting things on the Prius dashboard. First, a Prius enthusiast named John put together a breakdown of the different states of the "Energy Monitor" screen, with side-by-side comparison of the latest design with an earlier one. The ...

A lot is being done for energy conservation by way of smarter, greener building, and product design is getting smarter. For most people, though, there remains a disconnect in the way they use their energy, and how they want to use their energy. It's too ...