User Experience

by Rober Munger

Usability professionals can make both large and small choices that will help users have a green user experience.

by Michele Visciola, Erin O’Loughlin, Irene Cassarino

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.

by Elizabeth Rosenzweig

What follows is a series of personal essays on sustainability.

by Brian Sullivan

When you begin any project, start thinking about how you can make it greener. Sustainable design is good design.

by Nathan Shedroff

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.

by Martha Sippel

Xeriscape, using drought-tolerant plants that require minimal water to survive and thrive, leads to greater residential water conservation.

by Elizabeth Rosenzweig

Accidental sustainability is creating useful, satisfying, meaningful products and services people don’t need to replace and help conserve our resources.

by Joe Bugental

The conundrums of living sustainably will only be resolved when wiser professionals step back and look at the big picture.

by Jeremie Jean, Aaron Marcus

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.

by Lucinio Santos

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.

by Gerry Gaffney

Creating efficient data centers with significantly lower environmental impacts is attainable and highly desirable for economic reasons.

by Roberto Holguin

We are just beginning to regard the base of the pyramid as a viable business segment and understand the opportunities that come with designing for it.

by Aaron Marcus

Achieving sustainability, reducing one’s carbon footprint, “going green,” whatever one might call it, has gone from being a peripheral concern supported by a relative few—but dedicated—group of people, to a mainstream issue, talked, videoed, printed, blogged, and Twittered about among the masses on a daily basis…thanks in part to those earlier savants and prophets, but […]

by Joe Bugental

This book was written for everyone, about everything, and it covers a wide range of topics but is skimpy on details and specific information.