Smiling Earth—Raising Awareness among Citizens for Behaviour Change to Reduce Carbon Footprint

Sobah Abbas Petersen, Idar Petersen and Peter Ahcin
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Sobah Abbas Petersen: Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway
Idar Petersen: VINEGEN, 1500 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Peter Ahcin: VINEGEN, 1500 Ljubljana, Slovenia

Energies, 2020, vol. 13, issue 22, 1-16

Abstract: This paper describes Smiling Earth, a mobile app to increase citizens’ awareness about their own carbon footprint, by integrating energy and transport-related data. The main aim of our work is to explore the ways in which Information and Communication Technologies could help raise awareness and educate and motivate citizens about their actions and their consequences on the environment. Smiling Earth provides feedback to users by visualising data about their daily activities with the aim to motivate citizens to change their behaviour to reduce their CO 2 emissions by adopting a healthier lifestyle. The value of the Smiling Earth for individuals, cities and communities is discussed. The feedback from an expert evaluation and how Smiling Earth could contribute to Positive Energy Districts are also discussed.

Keywords: behaviour change; carbon footprint: citizen motivation; sustainability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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