The Sustainable Planet Showcase returns this year, featuring our Top 50 Finalists from the 2009 Greener Gadgets Design Competition. You won’t want to miss these design concepts, along with thousands of square feet dedicated to the green products that will change our lives in 2010.
Companies include Bits Ltd., Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse, Embertec Power Savings Technologies, Goal 0, Greenpeace, Horizon Fuel Cell Technologies, Meadwestvaco, Miniwiz, PowerGenix, Sean Energy Inc. and Solio.
The Sustainable Planet Spotlight will feature products and services making it possible for every person on this planet to stay connected, informed and live sustainable lifestyles, through:
Advances in green building
Alternative energy technologies
Automotive developments
Green business services and solutions
Smart grid technologies
Solar and renewable products
Sustainable packaging
Wireless convergence
The space will also feature live presentations and demos from the following companies:
Friday, Jan. 8
2-3 p.m.
Making Electronics Greener One Consumer at a Time
Making the consumer electronics industry more environmentally friendly has as much to do with people as products. In this CNET-hosted panel, we will discuss how green technologies and eco-minded consumers are changing the consumer electronics industry. Panelists will discuss some of the steps manufacturers are taking to lighten their environmental footprint, certification and standards, electronics recycling, and energy-efficiency.Panelists: Jeff Omelchuck, executive director of EPEAT; Jason Linnell, the executive director of the National Center for Electronics Recycling; David Katzmaier, CNET editor and expert on TV energy efficiency. Moderated by Martin LaMonica, senior reporter for the CNET Green Tech blog.
Check out videos taped live at our 2009 conference! If you like what you see, you’ll want to view our schedule for 2010, which is getting better every day.
Calling all emerging designers! We at the Greener Gadgets Conference are looking for an intelligent design that helps solve issues of energy efficiency, carbon footprint, sustainable lifestyles or development in nations off the grid.
This year’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition will highlight a new class of standout sustainable products, from those that create their own energy to those that minimize the need for any electricity at all.
Our most verdant finalists will be judged in front of a live audience at the Greener Gadgets Conference in New York City on February 25, 2010. Enter before December 1 to avoid the $50 entry fee. All entries must be received by December 31, 2009, for a chance at $5,000 in prizes.
The Greener Gadgets Conference was a chance for gadget geeks and electronic companies alike to think about the role of gadgets in our lives and how we can engage in more sustainable solutions for the future. Topics of discussion ranged from personal responsibility for energy consumption to how companies can track their carbon footprint to the role of sustainable design in improving people’s lives.
The event certainly provided much to think about and we are happy to report that there has been plenty of buzz around the interwebs:
In less than a year, the level of awareness of green issues in the CE industry has raised dramatically, due in no small part to conversation-starting conferences like Greener Gadgets. Building on the runaway success of their inaugural conference, Marc Alt and Jill Fehrenbacher sat down with CEA Digital Dialogue to discuss their plans to bring back the most popular elements of the conference, including the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, and a host of new speakers coming to the table in 2009. Learn about the conference’s new focus on how eco-friendly gadgets will affect the developing world, and get a taste of Marc and Jill’s favorite greener gadgets.
The Greener Gadgets Conference is returning to New York City this February, and promises to be even bigger and better than our inaugural event in 2008. We are thrilled to announce that inventor, engineer and all-around-tech-renaissance man Saul Griffith has signed on to give the keynote presentation for the event.
Ever wished you could charge your cell phones and laptop on the go – in your car, on a train, or just walking around? There are many new gadgets for mobile renewable energy: from solar gadget chargers, to kinetic energy chargers, to mini portable wind turbines. Check out this video to learn a bit more about some of the companies behind the most future-forward new mobile renewable energy devices.
Ever wished you could do away with all those annoying cell phone chargers that are cluttering up your space? Have you ever taken to cursing cell phone manufacturers for their extremely wasteful and inconvenient policies to manufacturer different types of batteries and chargers for every make and model of phone known to man? (We certainly have). Well here’s a design that promises an eco-friendly end to the hassles of multiple batteries and chargers – by offering up a single standardized battery that can fit in every type of personal electronic device. The Green Cell battery is safe, environmentally friendly, made without toxic chemicals, and — here’s the best part — when it runs out of juice on the go, it can easily be exchanged for a freshly charged battery at a local vendor machine.
If you’re attending the 2010 International CES, be sure to check out all of the green exhibits and ways that the show is working to become a greener event.
Calling all emerging designers! We at the Greener Gadgets Conference are looking for an intelligent design that helps solve issues of energy efficiency, carbon footprint, sustainable lifestyles or development in nations off the grid.
