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Lucid team member demonstrates Building Dashboard® on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
March 6, 2008
Washington, D.C. - Lucid Design Group team member Michael Murray demonstrates Yahoo! Headquarters' Building Dashboard® display in a PBS segment from The News Hour with Jim Lehrer discussing carbon offsets.
Excerpt from the transcript, titled "Carbon Offset Plan Allows Businesses to Trade Environmental 'Credit'":
"SPENCER MICHELS: Internet portal Yahoo is one company touting its environmental credentials. Yahoo figures it emits 250,000 tons of CO-2 a year, much of it in electricity used to power its servers.
"To reduce its carbon footprint, it provides biodiesel-powered shuttle busses for employees so they won't have to drive to work. And it is trying to reduce power use by, among other things, spurring electricity efficiency competition between employees."
Lucid's Building Dashboard® is featured at Yahoo! corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California. The touch-screen display shows Yahoo! employees real-time building electricity consumption and carbon emissions, enables comparisons between buildings and encourages discussion about how to take action to reduce energy use.
Read the transcript or watch the PBS segment online »
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.
