Green Interfaces

Experience and interaction designs for sustainability

Fillup with New iPhone Apps

With the release of iPhone 2.0 came a torrent of new (Apple-approved) 3rd party applications, among them several focusing on car fuel efficiency.  These are for the folks fortunate enough to own an iPhone and yet not yet ascended to the hallowed plane of hybrid ownership.  Here's a rundown of ...

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, ...

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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

Sat 6 Aug 02011
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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. Related posts:Home Base by EnergyHub Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo. via...
Thu 28 Apr 02011
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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) No related posts.
Thu 17 Mar 02011
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Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption

via Protagonists of the Collaborative Consumption Movement Related posts:Home Base by EnergyHub Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo. via...
Thu 17 Mar 02011
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Home Base by EnergyHub

Explore saving energy with EnergyHub from EnergyHub on Vimeo. via No related posts.

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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