wanted light or heat or haul water from a creek to cook with.
But now we get our light, heat and water without any effort, and
without seeing any obvious signs of how it’s produced.
“All functional systems have to have feedback,” she says. “But
we as modern humans live in systems that have no feedback
about our resource use.”
That’s what Frantz is working to change with her Oberlin
Environmental Dashboard, a multi-part project that aims to
help citizens in Oberlin, Ohio, visualize their personal and
community energy and water use, and in doing so increase their
sense of connection with nature and their motivation to cut
their resource use.
In the project’s first phase, Frantz and her colleagues in the
environmental science department installed energy-monitoring
software in all of the dorms on campus. Real-time information
about each dorm’s energy use is displayed on a monitor in the
building. Since 2007, the dorms have used the information to
participate in an annual energy-reduction competition.
In 2012, Frantz and her colleagues expanded the building
monitoring program to several public schools and libraries in
the surrounding Oberlin community.
They also unveiled a new, online city-wide dashboard
that displays real-time information on how much electricity
and water the entire city is consuming on an engaging screen
The goal of the city-wide dashboard, Frantz says, is broader
than that of the building dashboards. Her aim is to help people
understand how their individual actions contribute to the
collective resource use and ecosystem of the city, and make
them feel more connected to those resources.
“It shows, literally, the connection between the coal-fired
electricity plant and their house. And it shows how wastewater
coming out of a house goes to the nearby creek. We’re trying to
broaden the context in which they think about these things.”
“That’s really exciting to me because it suggests that we’re
not just giving them little facts, but we’re shifting the way that
they think about the world,” Frantz says. n
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