I just heard Jennie Winhall interviewed on the Smart City radio show.

And one of the projects she described reminded me of another creative effort many years ago. She was discussing the effort to make home energy use more observable to homeowners, in an effort to reduce total emissions. It recalled a competition a while back to design a new home energy meter that would provide a more friendly and intuitive interface to a home's energy use. Here's a Wired article on some of the winners of the competition.

I was particularly intrigued with the Wattbug, which seemed an elegant way of attaching a personality to the energy feedback, and therefore encourage homeowners (especially children) to change their energy-use behaviors.

Just thought you and the team would want to know about this effort, if you didn't already.

Andrew Taylor
School of Business
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.bolzcenter.org/taylor/

CATEGORY: ENERGY PROJECT