Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption
via Protagonists of the Collaborative Consumption Movement
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Green Interfaces
Experience and interaction designs for sustainability
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, ...
Green Social Goal-setting on Edenbee
Edenbee is a social network working to tackle climate change through better personal choices (with a little encouragement from like-minded souls). It went into an invitational beta* earlier this month. It has all of the essentials of a social network — ways to build a network with friends, ...
Carbon Calculations on Dopplr
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 ...
Power Plant Emissions on the Web
Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA), reveals the emissions of power plants and electric utilities across the world. Its database contains information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies.
(CARMA is produced and financed by the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for ...
Giving Electricity Carbon Footprints Some Context
In the comments to an earlier post, pfly asked a key question that hits on a problem designers and architects of green interfaces will need to consider as we strive to make more useful tools. pfly lives in the Pacific Northwest, where emissions of greenhouse gases due to ...
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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
User Experience and Interaction Design
Berlin and Austin
Google, Microsoft, shutter their home energy management offerings
Via Greenmonk:
Last week Google announced that it was shutting down its PowerMeter application (a screenshot of which is above). A couple of days later Microsoft divulged that it was closing its PowerMeter competitor, Microsoft Hohm.
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Nuage Vert
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)
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Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption
via Protagonists of the Collaborative Consumption Movement
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Home Base by EnergyHub
Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo.
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Sparzähler Online
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 ...
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