{"id":2986,"date":"2012-08-02T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T16:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2015-12-21T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:46:08","slug":"saving-energy-one-crab-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/08\/02\/saving-energy-one-crab-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Energy One Crab At A Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Imagine the embarrassment of leaving your office lights turned on and returning to find a giant fiddler crab sitting on your desk.\u00a0 This fishy situation is happening in office buildings all across Charlotte, North Carolina \u2013the crabs are plastic, and the fiddler variety is used for their notorious attraction to light.\u00a0 It is all part of a fun, social experiment happening in uptown Charlotte office buildings to remind employees to shut of their lights when leaving the office and power down their computers when headed home.\u00a0 If employees leave their lights on, coworkers will place crabs in the offending employee\u2019s office to remind them to turn off their lights. In order to rid themselves of the burdensome crab, that employee must covertly \u201ctag\u201d another absent minded coworker by leaving a crab on their desk \u2013 all in the name of energy efficiency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

And the amazing thing is that the playful reminder works!\u00a0 After \u201cCrab, You\u2019re It!\u201d was introduced in one of Mecklenburg County\u2019s office buildings<\/a>, 26% more lights were turned off when not in use, leading to significant energy savings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The \u201cCrab, You\u2019re It!\u201d game \u2013 now adopted as part of the Envision Charlotte<\/a> project \u2013 is just one of several innovative employee behavior change experiments that are leading to real energy reductions in office buildings in this entrepreneurial North Carolina city.\u00a0 The creators of the game \u2013 the County of Mecklenburg staff \u2013 knew that most office employees are not motivated to save energy solely out of the goodness of their heart.\u00a0 We are all busy and saving energy in the office is not always top of mind.\u00a0 The key was to find a way for employees to actually get excited and have fun while saving energy.\u00a0 And, let\u2019s be honest.\u00a0 Nobody wants to be crabbed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Imagine the embarrassment of leaving your office lights turned on and returning to find a giant fiddler crab sitting on your desk.\u00a0 This fishy situation is happening in office buildings all across Charlotte, North Carolina \u2013the crabs are plastic, and the fiddler variety is used for their notorious attraction to light.\u00a0 It is all part …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1897,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84830,557],"tags":[27618],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grid-modernization","category-north-carolina","tag-envision-charlotte-2012"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSaving Energy One Crab At A Time - Energy Exchange<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2012\/08\/02\/saving-energy-one-crab-at-a-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Saving Energy One Crab At A Time - 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