{"id":839,"date":"2005-03-03T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-03T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/03\/03\/designing-for-awareness\/"},"modified":"2005-03-03T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2005-03-03T15:28:00","slug":"designing-for-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/designing-for-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Designing for Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"
An interesting post<\/a> at WorldChanging concerning developments by the Swedish Interactive Institute: <\/p>\n that revisits the design of everyday things to increase awareness of how energy is used and to hopefully empower users by increasing their individual choices with regards to energy consumption.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Among their inventions: a “Flower Lamp” that “blooms’ when energy consumption in a household has been low for some time.” A commentor to this post says “I think projects like this perpetuate the mainstream perception that ‘environmentalists’ are goofy if-well-intentioned head-in-the-clouds space-cadet types that get very little actual credibility.” I’m not sure I agree with this self-admitted cynic — I think products like these meet multiple needs\/desires for beauty and efficiency (but, then, maybe I’m one of those very “space-cadet” types the writer describes…).<\/p>\n Technorati tags: energy efficiency<\/a>, innovation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting post at WorldChanging concerning developments by the Swedish Interactive Institute: that revisits the design of everyday things to increase awareness of how energy is used and to hopefully [ … ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n