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The BlueNetwork Concept

Most of energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives and concepts attempt to regulate and optimize machines behavior, and therefore, human behavior itself is left neglected. Although most of energy and resource consumption is the result of machines functioning and behavior (including domesticated animals such as cows), these behaviors themselves are actually in answer to humans demands and needs, and therefore, can be considered the indirect results of humans behavior. Resolving the source of problems, i.e., the unhealthy human behavior, not only reduces these footprints including energy and water consumption, and GHG emissions, it also helps increasing the quality of life in society. Here, we propose an approach which focuses on adjusting humans behavior toward eliminating unnecessary demand on the machines that consequently lowers the consumption. This goal is achieved by creating a social environment in which directed and selective interactions help humans to adjust to healthier behavior. The solution consists of human-friendly interfaces and also artificial intelligence software in order to learn and emulate human interactions.