Just archiving a previous email:
Here are a few related articles and sites I’ve stumbled across over the past few months:
http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2007/08/a_couple_of_mon.html
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/08/24/08
These above two links are to an article and an interview with technology journalist Clive Thompson, in which he discusses the cognitive advantages of using ambient information in service to real-time energy usage monitoring, an energy utility’s pilot program that tried this, and linking energy usage up to social networking to create “a social virus type of effect where people would be almost actively reducing even more of their energy usage so they won’t look like a complete energy glutton in front of their friends.”
http://www.diykyoto.com/wattson.html
http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/orborder.html
The two sites above are “product pages” for the ambient devices mentioned in the first set of links.
http://makemesustainable.com/mission
This last link is to a sustainable social networking site designed to track users’ carbon footprints. I’m somewhat skeptical, but it looks like an interesting “text” to analyze for strengths/weaknesses.
