One hour is not enough to save the planet. Earth Hour adopts the iPhone platform to help promote long-term sustainable behaviors.
Collaboration Over Distance
The earth has worked a long time to find a life-sustaining balance in its ecosystem. Burning fossil fuels by flying in planes is probably the single worst thing humans do to muck up the works. Sustainability requires change.
Building sustainability through design
Sustainability is a hot topic. Partial credit goes to Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, and the devastation of Hurricane Katrina that preceded the movie. In the world of human-computer interaction, designers are now thinking deeply about the consequences of their creations. Last spring, IU School of Informatics professor Eli Blevis presented his research paper—”Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Disposal, Renewal & Reuse“— to the international CHI community in San Jose, California. This seminal work jump-started formal research about how design and sustainability are related.