The Energy Tree Game we built with Mengting Sun is being heavily used by educators in the SFU PICS science day-long outreach workshops on energy. These workshops bring in a class of middle-school students for a day of exploring all…
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The annual forum for the environmental think tank, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, took place last week, Wednesday Oct 12, at SFU downtown. This is the yearly event where the “Big Five” research themes present their findings, solutions and…
SFU PhD candidate and HCSSL researcher Stephen Makonin, with SFU professors Fred Popowich and Lyn Bartram, has released an open dataset of residential energy use for general research. The AMPds (Almanac of Minutely Power Dataset) contains one years worth…
Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability, edited by Rebecca Henn and Andrew Hoffman, has just been released by MIT Press, 2013. It features a chapter by K. Velikov, L. Bartram and others on “Empowering the Inhabitant: Communication Technologies, Responsive…
West House, the SFUsustainable laneway home, opened to much public and media interest March 8 in Vancouver. It showcases leading-edge small footprint residential design, energy efficient, integrated systems and interactive technologies that encourage a sustainable lifestyle. Chief among these…
The Ontario Association of Architects is currently holding an online vote for the People’s Choice Favourite Ontario Architecture Project as part of their Design Excellence Awards. Voting is open until April 9th at 4:30 EST at http://awards.thinkflo.com/. No signup is…
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Welcome to the newly formed Human-Centered Systems for Sustainable Living research group at Simon Fraser University‘s School of Interactive Arts & Technology. About Reducing our ecological footprint requires not only new energy technologies but also new and more efficient energy…
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