Congratulations to Richard Alley and Veerabhadran “Ram” Ramanathan who will share the 2009 Tyler Prize for environmental achievement. When asked by Andrew Revkin of the NY Times what comes next, Alley said:
We know so much about climate science, and environmental science in general, and the gap between the knowledge of the scientific community and the general community [...]
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I’ve been talking about IS for sustainability for some time now, so I’m glad to see that Google is getting on board in the area of energy monitoring via Power Meter. Here’s the Google framing:
Our lack of knowledge about our own energy usage is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity for us [...]
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From the “it was just a matter of time” category, Google is purportedly working on an iGoogle app that will grab data from your electric company and provide real-time, granular (and hopefully, easy to read) data on energy consumption. Will this spur energy sweepstakes? human-centered incentives? facebook energy walls? Sign me up.
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A paper by Tiffany Holmes of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago argues that visualizing energy use may be a powerful untapped method for promoting conservation.
What is “eco-visualization”?
…creative visualizations of real time energy consumption. ….Eco-visualization also functions as a kind of social data exchange that promotes environmental stewardship; this emerging field has [...]
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