• Betanews: The Race to Make Things Out of Better Things
• CNET: Innovations Grow at Greener Gadgets  confab
• Daily Green: SourceMap – Click to See Where Everything Comes From
• Engadget: Yves Behar Shows off ‘Hackable’ Electronic Car Concept for the Developing World
• Earth911: Greener Gadgets’ Big Winners for Sustainable Design; (2) Greener Gadgets You’ll Love
• EarthTechling: Some Cool Green Tech
• Huffington Post: 10 Notable Gadgets of the Future
• Inhabitat: Reporting Live from Greener Gadgets
• Mother Nature Network: Greener Gadgets 2010; (2) …An Electric Vehicle for the Developing World
• On Earth: Can Gadgets Be Green? One Day Confab Says ‘Yes’
• Popular Mechanics: The 4 Coolest Designs from Greener Gadgets 2010
• Scientific American: Can Greener Gadgets Save Us from E-Waste?
• SmartPlanet:  Yves Behar: Designers Must ‘Put the Sexy Back in Green’
• Switched: Spotlight on Sourcing at Greener Gadgets
• TreeHugger: Design Competition Winner Isn’t a Gadget At All; (2) What Do Top Concepts Say About Us, Electronics Industry?; (3) Yves Behar’s Hacked Car Concept
• USA Today: Nifty Gadgets Help You Buy Local Food, Cut Energy Use

“The Greener Gadgets Conference is like the laid-back younger brother to the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES).”
-Brian C. Howard, Popular Mechanics

“If it’s not ethical, it cannot be beautiful. But if it cannot be beautiful, it probably should not be at all.”
-Yves Behar, 2010 keynoter

“The ideas were concrete through illustration and avid speakers, making us even more excited about how the future will better merge both technology and sustainability.”
-Amanda Wills, Earth911

“Chock-full of eco ear and eye candy.”
-Matt Hickman, Mother Nature Network

Yves Behar opens the 2010 Greener Gadgets Conference.

Yves’ design student brought a $100 laptop to students in emerging countries.

Yves Behar unveils the XO3, the latest in the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

A stamp in Uruguay celebrates 100% distribution of the OLPC laptop.

Jason Oxman welcomes one and all to a snowy day in New York City.

TreeHugger’s Jaymi Heimbuch introduces many in the audience to Jeff Omelchuck and the EPEAT certification system.

Architects, designers and installers detail the process of greening a home, led by moderator Sarah Rich.

Yves Behar joins Greener Gadgets founders Jill Fehrenbacher and Marc Alt in greeting the audience.

Presenting sponsor HP fields a press interview in the Exhibit Gallery.

Sustainable Minds — a greener product design software and information company.

TrickleStar shows off power-saving technologies.

EIATRACK discusses its worldwide environmental regulatory tracking system.

Taly Walsh of EIATRACK.

Peter Fannon of presenting sponsor Panasonic fields questions in the gallery.

CEA’s Digital Answer Man Jim Barry shows off CEA member products from his media tour.

Autodesk’s Sarah Krasley speaks with attendees after a session.

Sarah Rich, Julian Lwin, and Andrew Wagner watch the decibel meter as the audience votes in the design competition.

Judges from Dwell, ReadyMade and Lwindesign gave thumbs up or down to finalists selected by the public online.

CEA’s Jason Oxman introduces the judges to the design competition top 10.

Author Joe Hutsko interviews Peter Fannon regarding Panasonic’s sustainability efforts.

Maria Tate explains HP’s sustainable design process.

Eben Bayer shows off EcoCradle product packaging.

Mei Shibata demonstrates ThinkEco’s modlet.

Leonardo Bonanni takes the audience through Sourcemap.org, a project creating supply chain transparency.

Tom Hadfield wows the audience with Andrea, a plant-based air purifier.

Greener Gadgets takes many event greening measures to reduce waste and utilize recycled materials.

You may follow the conference live on Twitter via the official CEA account (@CEAfeed) and the hashtag #GG10.

Green and Tech in Perfect Harmony

The Rhode Island-based Green Life Smart Life project is an expression of one family’s aspiration to prove that green living and technology could co-exist. The home reflects their desire to capture the incredible views of Narragansett Bay and the Newport Bridge, their dedication to integrated sustainable design that included durability measures to handle the harsh weather elements of New England, and their insistence on smart home technology that enabled them to live in a high-tech, high-touch, entertainment-driven environment.

Quest for LEED

The homeowners were dedicated to building the home to achieve LEED for Homes certification, and despite the home’s impressive 4529 sq/ft of living space, the home achieved 92.5 points. From energy management to water conservation and from high performance building techniques to a systematic waste management plan, the builders and subcontractors worked together every step of the way to bring Gold certification to this home.

“When we embarked on this project we believed green living and a tech lifestyle could exist, but what we found was that technology will help us be more energy efficient, more connected and smarter in the way we will live in our home,” said homeowner and Green Life Smart Life founder Kimberly Lancaster Hageman. “We are not saying everyone has to do all of this, but everyone can do something. We found a way to make technology thrive in a green home.”

Strategies and Results

The home was stick built and framed using FSC sourced lumber whenever it was available, FSC-certified white cedar shingles flanked the home’s exterior, with Versatex specified for all eaves, trim and moldings for their long life in the salt ridden air. Being built in a 120-mph coastal wind zone, the homeowners selected Pella’s Hurricaneshield windows for both their impact resistance and their ENERGY STAR ratings. With soy-based spray foam insulation filling the building envelope the home received a HERS rating of 58 to make it ENERGY STAR.

After an incredible amount of research, the homeowners settled on a five-zone geothermal HVAC system, including a dedicated heat pump for the wine cellar. The system also included dual water tanks for holding hot water, two Environmental Recovery Ventilators, and a water pump for diverting water from the well to the 5000 gallon rainwater harvesting system should their not be enough rainfall and eliminating any exterior municipal water for irrigation.

 Interior finishes include 200 year old reclaimed barnwood floors, a wine cellar with racks made from the reclaimed Point Judith County Club deck, recycled countertops, sinks and tile, low-flow plumbing fixtures including 1.0 gpf toilets, 1.75 gpm showerheads and 1.5 gpm faucets. The home also features locally-made FSC cabinetry and zero VOC paints and finishes. Wood scraps were used to make the custom closets, shorter floor boards were relegated to closet sections and even the lavette sink was crafted from leftover materials, but you’d never know it.

One of the unique attributes to the project was the complete integration of smart home technology to monitor and control every subsystem in the home. The homeowners worked with an electronic systems contractor, Robert Saglio Audio Video, to design and layout the home for the ultimate in today’s connectivity needs. Designed to the CEA’s TechHome Rating System Platinum standard, the home includes Control4 for integrated management of HVAC, irrigation, Lutron lighting control, security, energy monitoring, and state-of-the art entertainment. Combining innovative technologies with an energy management system, the home maintains a connected lifestyle while conserving energy.

The Nantucket style home with its beautiful built-ins and soft sea-glass hued colors started its design more than three years ago and, in 2008, became the first non pilot registered LEED for Homes project in the state – and the first to receive the Gold certification. The finished home is an eloquent marriage of technology and sustainable design that reflects one family’s lifestyle, but shares visions for any home – to be safe, comfortable, sustainable, healthy and connected.

 Architect: Laura D. Krekorian
Builders: Merchant Construction, Smith Ingram
Custom Millwork: Pearson Woodworking
Landscape Architect: John Carter & Co.
LEED Provider: Conservation Services Group
Systems Integrator: Jeff Mitchell, Robert Saglio Audio Video
Geothermal System Design: Newport Geothermal
Mechanicals and Plumbing: Reddy Piping
Structural Engineer: Coastal Engineering
Photographer: Ashley Daigneault
Marketing/PR: Caster Communications, Inc.
Owners: Joe and Kimberly Hageman

Previously announced speakers include Yves Behar, fuseproject; Robert Fabricant, frog design; Sarah Rich, Dwell; Jaymi Heimbuch, Treehugger; Jeff Omelchuck, Green Electronics Council; and Joe Hutsko, Greener Gadgets for Dummies.

Check out the latest schedule and presenter bios.

Robert Fabricant knows the impact of technology. He has developed user experiences for handheld devices, in-car information systems, retail environments, networked applications, and desktop software. As vice president of creative for frog design, he leads multidisciplinary teams of strategists, interaction designers, industrial designers and technologists for name brands such as AOL, BBC, Coca-Cola Comcast, GE, MTV, Nextel and Nissan.

But some of Fabricant’s most important clients also depend on technology to survive. frog’s Design for Impact initiative includes Project Masiluleke, which has harnessed the power of mobile technology to combat the world’s worst HIV and AIDS epidemic in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

>> Watch Fabricant discuss interaction design at IxDA

Fabricant’s work has been recognized by the AIGA, IDSA, I.D. Magazine, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal and Wired. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in New York and is a faculty member of the Pop!Tech Social Innovation Fellowship Program.

See Fabricant along with fellow designer Yves Béhar, Jeff Omelchuck of EPEAT, Jaymi Heimbuch of TreeHugger, Sarah Rich of Dwell and many others live on February 25 in New York City.

Register for the conference today.

“I believe design’s purpose is not only to show us the future,
but to bring us the future.”

Shepherding eco-friendly technology into present day reality, Yves Béhar has made a career as an agent of sustainable style. Béhar’s studio fuseproject designed the world’s first $100 XO laptop for One Laptop Per Child, a project bringing educational tools to the world’s poorest children. The first generation XO laptop consumes 10 times less energy than a standard laptop, and charges via hand or foot pedal or using solar panels. The XO 2.0 laptop will be released in spring 2010.

>> Watch Béhar explain One Laptop Per Child on Inhabitat.

Béhar designs for technology, furniture, sports, and fashion, with clients including Nike, Apple, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Toshiba, Sony, and Coca Cola. Recognized as a visionary by TIME magazine, his work can be found in the permanent design collection of the Musee National D’Art Moderne/Centre Pompidou, the New York Museum of Modern Art, JFK Airport, the San Francisco MOMA, the Munich Museum of Applied Arts and in private collections.

“Executives often appear at Béhar’s door, saying, ‘We want to be the Apple of our industry.’ His response: ‘Do you have the guts?’ “

See Béhar along with fellow designer Robert Fabricant, Jeff Omelchuck of EPEAT, Jaymi Heimbuch of TreeHugger, Sarah Rich of Dwell and many others live on February 25 in New York City.

Register for the conference today.

The 2010 event, held February 25 in New York City, will be no different, benchmarking plans for an entire green lifestyle beginning in the place you start every day. A panel session entitled “Green Living Begins at Home” will outline how a green home can also be a smart home, whether it’s in an urban or rural location, on or off the grid.

Keynoters will include Yves Behar, founder of the San Francisco design studio, fuseproject, and Robert Fabricant, vice president of creative for frog design inc. Behar’s design studio was responsible for the design of the world’s first $100 “XO” laptop for One Laptop Per Child, a project aimed at bringing education and technology to the world’s poorest children. Fabricant leads frog’s Design for Impact initiatives, which focus on using mobile technologies to increase access to information and accelerate positive behavior change.

The conference closes out with the incredibly popular Greener Gadgets Design Competition, highlighting a new class of sustainable product concepts, from those that create their own energy to those that minimize the need for any electricity at all.

Details on registration, the full conference schedule, and numerous other green resources can be found on the newly updated site.