by joulebug | Feb 25, 2013 | JouleBug For Communities
This New York Times article on the application of modern data tech to cities caught our eye this weekend, not just because the headline mentioned SimCity, to which one member of the JouleBug team devoted an almost certainly unhealthy portion of his youth. It was the... by joulebug | Feb 14, 2013 | Useful
The JouleBug app has a lot of special badges for big holidays and celebrations, like Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Earth Day. We don’t have one for Valentine’s Day (yet), so we’ll have to use the blog instead. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we... by joulebug | Feb 6, 2013 | Education, JouleBug For Communities
About a month ago, a diligent technician in JouleBug’s vast Intelligence and Monitoring Department (which is to say, our dev team that does everything) noticed an anomaly in our server stats: a massive spike in usage from some place calling itself “the... by joulebug | Feb 2, 2013 | Pins
The French are cracking down on wasted energy. A new national law in France, set to take effect on July 1, will require businesses to turn out their lights overnight. Offices and shops will have to shut off their interior lighting no later than one hour after the... by joulebug | Feb 1, 2013 | JouleBug Challenge, JouleBug For Communities, Raleigh
On Friday, February 1, the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, told all 3,000+ of its city employees to buzz off. But in a good way! Raleigh launched a sustainability challenge using JouleBug to see which city employee could rack up the most points in the app — by... 