Tag > sustainable development

  InfoAesthetics has collected some interesting examples of what I call  Participatory Ecology - the use of social media to foster collective awareness of environmental challenges and promote sustainable development. - The Energy Detective project merged the actual energy output of an everyday family with a Google Visualization API Timeline visualization, which itself is based on a Twitter-based feed from the smart metering device. Remarkable events or peaks are regularly annotated, and one can easily make out when typical household activities have taken place. -...