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Yahoo! unveils Building Dashboard® at corporate headquarters
February 27, 2008
Sunnyvale, California - Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard® is unveiled 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.
The new Building Dashboard® is highlighted Yodel Anecdotal, Yahoo!'s corporate blog, in an article titled "Giving a whole new meaning to 'power lunch'."
Excerpt from the blog:
"Our mission is simple – to take action, big and small, to help Yahoo! reduce its carbon footprint... Empowering green actions through our employees and across our business is something we take very seriously (we launched a consumer-friendly resource for all things green called Yahoo! Green and pledged to be a carbon neutral company last year).
"[The display] presents energy usage in an easy to understand way and gives anyone who approaches the touch screen kiosk the ability to play with the information. Data can be viewed in megawatt hours, tons of carbon, or dollars. So, for example, you can see how many pounds of carbon have been emitted per person on the Sunnyvale campus from our energy usage that day. Employees will also be able to see energy consumption across buildings and compare trends viewed over time. We’re displaying dozens of “Green Tips” too – such as how to take advantage of our award-winning commute options, or where to shop for green products online. In addition to being available in our cafeteria, the Yahoo! Green Screen will be available to all employees worldwide on our corporate intranet to engage participation through suggestions, providing feedback, and just taking part in their local offices."
Read the Yahoo! blog article 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.
