Utility Tracking and Benchmarking Blog | WegoBlog

Last weekend, WegoWise took home both the 1st place and Crowd Favorite prizes at the Boston Cleanweb Hackathon. The event was, by all accounts, awesome, with twenty 
creative teams working non-stop for 29 hours “to create new web applications that address current energy and resource challenges”. 

Below are five great infographics that focus on behavior changes and their potential impact on the environment. Enjoy! (Click on the image to view the full infographic.) 

Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. This week we take a look at one of our favorite beverages, looking at the good, bad, and delicious sides of it.  So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean, Lily, Catherine, and Casey.

A vegetarian diet is a great way to eat lower on the food chain and reduce your carbon footprint.  Though I’ve always known that cutting meat out of my diet decreases a person's carbon footprint, I never knew by how large of a factor.  It turns out that becoming a vegetarian can have quite a large environmental impact!  A University of Chicago report, Diet, Energy, and Global Warming, compares the carbon footprint of consuming meat to that of driving different cars.  The authors concluded that a person who consumes red meat with 35% of the calories from animal sources (which includes cheese and eggs), when compared to a vegetarian, contributes an additional GHG burden equal to the difference in GHG emissions of driving an SUV as opposed to driving a Camry.  This difference contributes to 6% of the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions!

Using "utility allowances" and "fun" in the same sentence is a bit of a stretch, but knowledgeable property owners can increase profitability through good management of utility costs.  Affordable housing property owners have to continually find a balance between the revenues they can generate through rent and their tenants' utility costs.  Most affordable properties are subject to a "gross rent" limit.  The gross rent limit is the maximum combined amount tenants can pay each month in rent and utility expenses.  High utility costs for the tenants means lower rent revenue for owners.  Some progressive developers have started to take concrete steps to ensure they maximize the rent they can collect.   

Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. This week we take a look at some thoughts on energy efficiency and of getting along better with nature.  So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean, Lily, Catherine, and Casey.

With spring upon us, many start looking forward to the fresh organic vegetables they’ll be soon seeing from farms in their area.  As the localvore movement has grown, demand for locally grown food has exploded, which has led to farmers and consumers partnering in what’s known as community supported agriculture (CSA). Before this year's harvest season begins, WegoWise is here to offer you an overview of this popular way to access local veggies.

Whether you want to be a more informed citizen or just want to kill some time before 5 on a Friday afternoon, WegoWise has got you covered. This week we take a look at some Earth Day related links, since we couldn't let that holiday pass by without mention.  So peruse our best links, give us some feedback and be sure to share some of the info you just gleaned with other interested parties at the parties you are hopefully attending this weekend. Brought to you by Dan, Nate, Sean, Lily, Catherine, and Casey.

With so many properties in need of energy efficiency upgrades, it's often difficult to decide where to start.  Energy efficiency program administrators have the additional burden of trying to decide which projects deserve funding.

WegoWise recently presented at the 10th Annual Cleantech Forum in San Francisco. We were honored to have been one of only twenty companies selected to present our technology and business model in front some of the most prominent investors and multinationals in the cleantech industry.