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Lucid Design Group featured in 'Home, Green Home' in The Economist
September 4, 2008
Oakland, CA - Lucid Design Group is featured in The Economist (Print Edition) article titled 'Home, Green Home,' about increasing demand for low-impact green homes despite housing market decline. In this Technology Quarterly section, the author discusses improved and innovative new green technologies that offer promising environmental and economic solutions for the home market.
From the chapter, But are the residents green?:
"Once the house is sealed, producing its own power and using it efficiently, its inhabitants become the weak link. Lucid Design Group, a software company in Oakland, California, is trying to fix that. It has developed a web-based dashboard that uses the data from building-management systems to plot real-time electricity, water and gas usage. Simply visualising energy use this way can prompt homeowners to reduce their usage. Lucid's dashboard was first used to pit groups of university students against one another in green dormitories at Oberlin College in Ohio. The competition reduced energy consumption by 55%."
Read 'Home, Green Home' at Economist.com >>
About Lucid
Founded in 2004, Lucid Design Group, Inc. ("Lucid") is a privately held cleantech software company and a pioneer in providing real-time information feedback to teach, inspire behavior change and save energy and water resources in buildings. Over the past seven years, Lucid's team has endeavored to make resource use visible, accessible and engaging so that building occupants have the data visualization and communication tools to manage and reduce their consumption.
Today, tens of thousands of people live and work in schools, companies, community and commercial buildings and homes enhanced by Lucid's web-based Building Dashboard® technology. Now in its fourth generation, the intuitive Building Dashboard® user interface allows occupants to connect personal electricity, water and natural gas consumption with the actions and events that take place within buildings.
