Smart energy use that minimizes consumption of fossil fuels is the heart of sustainable design. We develop products and services for buildings and transportation systems incorporating renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. We also create communications, outreach and education programs supporting smart energy strategies.
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the retail end of the smart grid; consumers first!
The smart grid has been promoted as key to this country’s energy future; an intelligent network tying together power production, transmission, distribution and consumption; reacting in real time, matching supply and demand. At the residential, “retail” end of the smart grid, conventional marketing wisdom has it that a utility installed smart meter will facilitate home [...]
the priority for sustainable cities
I was recently asked what could be done to advance the concept of a sustanable city. I replied that as much as I like cars as interesting mechanical devices, ultimately, and at almost every scale, demography and geography a city that can reduce its reliance on private automobiles will be a more livable place – with a better [...]
will “seeing” our travel and transactions make us smarter consumers and commuters?
I chatted with a computer scientist colleague last week about an open transaction platform he’d like to build that would bypass the major vendors and give consumers and small merchants alike access to the type of data retail giants now use to sell us even more stuff. One of the benefits of this open platform, among others, [...]
weatherviz video now showing
Video of weatherviz preview now playing.
weatherviz debuts in seattle
We live in soup of streaming data. Weatherviz is an experiment to capture some of that data and make it more tangible through the medium of kinetic art. The weatherviz system has gathered radar images from very recent weather events throughout the territorial United States. It then employs these images to drive a large, kinetic [...]