green user experience

people, machines, energy & earth. investigating the usability of sustainability.

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New film, Urbanized, by Gary Hustwit playing @ the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts for one week starting November 4. (via Urbanized | YBCA)

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AKQA, Audi and the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologyare collaborating on the Road Frustration Index, a project that examines the latest dataon traffic, incidents, weather and driver sentiment in 30 metropolitan areas. While no city’s drivers are on easy street, some have it worse than others.

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London Design Festival starts this weekend, and if I were across the pond, I'd check out the exhibit, A Pylon for the Future: The RIBA, DECC and National Grid competition to design a new pylon.

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The Lexicon of Sustainability believes in the power of change through improving our vocabulary. "By illuminating the vocabulary of sustainable agriculture, and with it, the conversation about America’s rapidly evolving food culture, the Lexicon project will educate, engage and activate people to pay closer attention to how they eat, what they buy, and their responsibility for creating a healthier, safer food system in America."

They sought out sustainability practitioners in food & farming to help us change the way we talk about agriculture & the experience of food. "Your words can change the world."  They are creating change through evolving how we talk about the issues & solutions. 

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This Good mag article is from 2010, but it's a nice roundup of home, energy-saving apps. 

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Here's what happens when technologists + designers collaborate: Alex Driver and Carlos Peralta bring to life product concepts for biophotovoltaics, a photosynthetic process of living organisms that generate energy. Projects will be featured in Designersblock, part of London Design Week 2011 from September 22-25.

(via alex driver carlos peralta: biophotovoltaics)

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Great service by Virgin to promote the use of personal water bottles while traveling.

(via Superb Idea: Virgin America Rolls Out Water-Bottle Refill Stations - Business - GOOD)

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An M.I.T. mobile app project, Signal Guru, helps consumers save gas & electricity. (via Research: Using smartphones for frugal driving — Cleantech News and Analysis)

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Autodesk is committed to helping designers make better decisions by embedding sustainability features within their design products. Lynelle Cameron, Director of Sustainability, talks about the benefits of being an informed designer. Cameron says that the tools help designers make informed decisions, help them understand the impact of what they are designing, and enables designers to easily communicate across the organization to promote solutions that are better for the environment. Bravo!

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Awesome interactive & green education example. From the publisher, "Our Choice will change the way we read books. And quite possibly change the world. In this interactive app, Al Gore surveys the causes of global warming and presents groundbreaking insights and solutions already under study and underway that can help stop the unfolding disaster of global warming."

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Easy ways to understand volume of water consumption.

(via Infographic: 10 Ways to Stop Wasting Water - Action - GOOD)