Often we talk about the need to cut emissions that should be driven by regulations set in place by policy makers. Rarely do we place the blame on our own shoulders when the facts are undeniable: 38 percent of greenhouse emissions come from people wasting energy. With that in mind game developers have come up with a new mobile game called Energy Chickens. The way it works is for every household appliance you have, there is a chicken to look after. Do well and limit energy usage to that appliance and your chicken stays healthy, disregard your energy use and your chicken will get dirty and start having problems. Seems like a pretty elementary approach to cutting energy waste, but before you write it off, a recent study from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy found that gamification could boost energy savings by as much as 10 percent. And that’s something to squawk about.
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