• Hawaii: A Globally Important Case Study for Energy, Civil Beat, November, 2012
• Hale Aloha residents compete for Kukui Cup, UH Community News, September, 2012
• Lights off, game on:  Kukui Cup back at UH, Ka Leo, September 2012
• Hale Aloha residents compete for Kukui Cup energy-saving honors, UH Press Release, September 2012
• Students compete to reduce energy use in dorms, Ka Leo, September, 2011
• Online game apps spur Manoa student dorm energy challenge, UH News, October 2011
• The Kukui Cup: Lights Off, Game On, Jack Johnson Music, November, 2011
• The Kukui Cup salutes Goodwill, Andy South, and Green Fashion, TheGoodWillHunter, November, 2011
• University of Hawaii: Kukui Cup, Climate Access, December, 2011
• The University of Hawaii achieves social good, Gamification Roundup, January, 2012
• Gamification: Green tech makes energy a game, and we all win, Ars Technica, February, 2012

Presentations

Selected publications

• Fostering Sustained Energy Behavior Change And Increasing Energy Literacy In A Student Housing Energy Challenge, Robert Brewer, Ph.D dissertation, May, 2013
• Beyond kWh: Myths and fixes for energy competition game design, Philip Johnson, Yongwen Xu, Robert Brewer, George Lee, Michelle Katchuck, and Carleton Moore. In the Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Meaningful Play, Lansing, Michigan, October, 2012.. 
• Makahiki+WattDepot: An open source software stack for next generation energy research and education, Philip M. Johnson, Yongwen Xu, Robert S. Brewer, Carleton A. Moore, George E. Lee, and Andrea Connell. In Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability (ICT4S), Zurich, Switzerland, February 2013.
• Makahiki: An Open Source Game Engine for Energy Education and Conservation, George E. Lee, Yongwen Xu, Robert S. Brewer, Philip M. Johnson, CSDL Technical Report 11-07, January, 2012.
• Makahiki Manual, George Lee, Yongwen Xu, Robert Brewer, Philip Johnson, CSDL technical report, 2012-2013.
• The Kukui Cup: Shaping everyday energy use via a dorm energy competition, Robert S. Brewer, Proceedings of the CHI 2011 Workshop on Everyday Practice and Sustainable HCI, May, 2011.
• The Kukui Cup: a Dorm Energy Competition Focused on Sustainable Behavior Change and Energy Literacy, Robert S. Brewer and George E. Lee and Philip M. Johnson, Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January, 2011.

Awards