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Photos: Measuring home energy use in dollars and trees

May 30, 2008 4:41 AM PDT

Lucid Design Group's Building Dashboard can monitor energy and water use by institutions and commercial buildings. The interface is designed to describe resources in concrete terms, such as dollars, trees, or carbon emissions.

A touchscreen kiosk with Lucid's dashboard is at the Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Lucid, which is based in Oakland, isn't focusing on services for single-family homes, but its displays indicate the types of information gradually becoming available to homeowners.

Photo by Lucid Design Group

Caption by Elsa Wenzel

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