
The Greener Gadgets Conference is underway in New York City this morning, with intros by Jill Fehrenbacher and Marc Alt, a welcoming from Parker Brugge of CEA, and kick-in-the-face Keynote from Saul Griffith. We're gearing up for the Live Design Competition Judging at 3:45, so hope to see you there. If you can't make it, make sure to check out the gallery of this year's designs in the Greener Gadget Design Competition Gallery, and check back later for the winners and runners up. Good luck to everyone who entered this year's competition!
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Hello, I've been following your blog for quite some time now, and I wanted to say keep up the good work! It's always entertaining reading your posts.
I checked out some of the greener gadget ideas. I think one of the requirements for entering the contest should be a basic LCA comparison between the product idea and the "non-green" method which the product replaces. For example, how many loads of wash would I need to do with my plastic, mass-produced, hand-powered clothes washing machine before the water and energy savings supersedes the energy costs to produce and ship the product.
Simple idea that gets tossed around a lot, but it's hard to tell whether a new single-purpose product is worth it's production costs these days.
GoodLuck for me.....Bware!