Solar Panels Worthy of the Vatican
I was in Rome last week and visited the Vatican museums, building after building and room after room of art masterpieces that overwhelm one’s ability to...
A Battery in Every Home
Brag: here’s me, presenting these ideas at uxcon vienna One well-known problem with solar and wind is that they only produce electricity when the sun is...
The Future of Home Energy is Cats
Me on the stage at uxcon vienna Last week I gave a presentation at uxcon vienna and explained how I was struck by a lightening bolt while walking through the...
Show Me the Money, Home Energy Apps
tl;dr If you find yourself in a position of choosing an app to monitor your home electricity, or solar panels, or an electric car, etc. look at your app...
Making, Saving, Shifting and Storing Energy
I’m continuing my exploration of the UX of Energy, with a current focus of controlling home solar, and this time looking at a great consumer-oriented project...
Controlling Your Home Solar
Meet Art & Mary, a retired couple living off-grid using power mostly from a large array of solar panels. I’ll link you six minutes into their story where Art...
The UX of Energy
For the foreseeable future I’ll be writing about the UX of energy, which I define as: The design of our interaction with the production, transmission, and...
Climate Design in 2025
Coming up in future newsletters this year I’ll be exploring the UX of Energy, that is, how we experience energy as a technology that serves us rather than a...
Environmental Economics, Part 3
In 2002, the Irish government introduced a 15 cent tax on plastic shopping bags. Previously supermarkets provided these bags free to customers. The goal of...
Environmental Economics, Part 2
In December, 1952 a sickening, deadly smog fell on London, England. Pollution from burning coal blanketed the city by an unsual weather pattern. Over the...
Environmental Economics, Part 1
Part 1 of a primer on Environmental Economics
Software for Wind Energy
A primer of the state of the industry for 2024
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How Electricity Is Made in Each Country
One of the most powerful ways that design contributes to climate work is making the invisible visible, as with data journalism. These series of 60 charts by...
When Should I Charge My Car?
Here’s a perfect place for design to solve a climate problem. Let’s say the area where you live uses a mix of renewable energy and fossil fuels for...
Is the solution simply solar + batteries?
tldr: Another answer to the questions of “what should I personally do/invest in?” and “in which industry should I work?” could simply be: solar. The IEA’s...
Climate Word to Know: Agrowth
Enso by Billy Gray Some argue we can’t fix the climate within the current capitalist economic system. The “degrowth” camp argues that focusing on gross...
Climate Consumer Segments
When thinking about how our design will be received, it’s helpful to have an understanding of how our audience interprets climate information. This allows us...
Climate Word to Know: Attribution
To stay climate literate in 2023 you should know the term attribution, as in attribution science. Attribution science determines how likely weather was...