Usability professionals can make both large and small choices that will help users have a green user experience.
To gauge success in changing people’s consuming patterns, we must be able to assess and monitor certain indicators both at an individual and community level.
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What follows is a series of personal essays on sustainability.
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When you begin any project, start thinking about how you can make it greener. Sustainable design is good design.
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Sustainability refers to sustainable social, cultural, and financial systems, not just environmental systems, thus we need to consider how the things we make and use affect them.
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Xeriscape, using drought-tolerant plants that require minimal water to survive and thrive, leads to greater residential water conservation.
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Accidental sustainability is creating useful, satisfying, meaningful products and services people don’t need to replace and help conserve our resources.
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The conundrums of living sustainably will only be resolved when wiser professionals step back and look at the big picture.
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The Green Machine seeks to create a prototype to test whether it makes people reduce their energy consumption, holding significant implications on the use of Smart Grid software.
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Studying the history of technology should not trivialize the contributions of our digital era but give new perspective to the affect of new and old on today’s users.