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8 Lessons From Twitter Energy Monitoring

Posted on September 16, 2008

by Marguerite Manteau-RaoTwo weeks and 77 tweets later, the Twitter green_watch project has come to an end. Lots of insights, problems raised, and beginning of answers.The goal was to use Twitter as a real time, online reporting tool for my personal energy consumption, round the clock.Lessons learned from the project:#1. The more engaged we are in flow-like activities, the less our propensity to consume energy and buy things that depend on energy for their production:Adults and children should be encouraged to develop capacity to engage in activities that are deeply satisfying by themsel...

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