Another year, another electronics and gadgets conference that is out of whack with modern concerns around sustainability and the planet. The C.E.S. is an arrogant refusal to admit to the problems the electronics industry has created in terms of material waste, poisonous polution, energy waste and over-consumption. Our man on the ground, Scott Burns, tells us that although some brands there might be talking about sustainability or at at least the advancement in technology in allowing devices to perform more with less power, the show itself is anything but green (aside from the mass transit and buses). Ironically, CES says that it is reducing its own impact on the environment wherever it can - but it doesn't seem to register that it's actually contributing to a greater problem than the number of nonrecycled water bottles left over at the end of the show.