Electric Footprint
Electric Footprint is a community/street website that enables householders to view their own electricity consumption over weeks, months and days alongside other helpful information such as daylight hours and weather information.
Electric Footprint is a community/street website that enables householders to view their own electricity consumption over weeks, months and days alongside other helpful information such as daylight hours and weather information.
I think the best chance of making the UK a low-carbon economy comes through community-owned green energy projects. According to a collection of civil groups that represent 12 million people, government support to create a low carbon economy should be greater. Local people need a stake in energy generation and to be given the chance to produce low-carbon, low-cost energy.
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Really enjoyed doing this as a fun way to draw people in. Spent ages deciding what kind of shoe I was but loved the idea. The other place I was a bit stuck was the garden as mine is full of flowers but also has some weeds – or is a bit overgrown where I’ve let it go wild for environmental purposes but I also have multi surfaces.
Wanted also to go further on the profile and have the option to put that I recycled or bought local British and organic food.
Love it! A great improvement on all those stuffy questionnaires though I have the same problem as Ed living in a flat and I couldn’t really find the right kind of shoe – could have done with a Chelsea Boot option.
Took ages to decide what sort of shoe our house is, as it is home to two very different shoe collections!
Other than that this was easy, but it seems to me like some options are missing – I wanted to be able to say that we use water butts, recycle everything possible including water, don’t use pesticides or eat food that’s dubious in terms of its production or flown etc etc., so it’s short and effective but might not give a balanced view as I think many small car users who are environmentally informed may try to balance out their footprint through other means in ways that might not be accounted for in this survey?
I am also left wondering how the info will be used or if at some point any change in users profiles will be measured? – i.e. could it do with a contextualising para? (Unless there is one that I have missed by being distracted by lovely pictures of shoes!)
If it is meant as initial way of getting very basic profile then it works very well.
Fun to use 🙂
Why can I comment in two places; on the b/w Flash animation and also on the KW website? More fun commenting on the website as I can see other peoples comments too!
Good way of finding out information! Great questionnaire!
I live in a flat – what do I put for the garden bit?
I think this is a easy way of gathering data, it is a bit of fun rather than a intrusive questionnaire, so you dont mind answering