When it comes to sustaining ourselves and the planet, non-renewable energy and the looming consequences of global climate change are among the most critical issues of our time. In our view, interaction designers have power and a responsibility to address these issues. While the creation of a renewable energy economy and infrastructure is ultimately necessary, it is just as important that we rapidly reduce current consumption and shift cultural notions about the way energy use affects our future ways of being. In the developed world, a view has long pervaded which treats energy as relatively cheap, abundant and without significant consequence. Even as the public consciousness around climate change increases, this unsustainable conception persists. A new mental model is needed, and interaction designers can and should play a role in bringing this change. Computers and other digital products and systems consume enormous amounts of electricity. Moreover, it is daily interactions with the ecology of energy-consuming products which help construct our underlying conception of and relationship to energy in general…