It was a fantastic event with a diverse pool of industry reps, artists, designers and academics. If you weren’t there or missed the live broadcast, you can catch the highlights over at Inhabitat, including videos, pictures and wrap-ups from the presenters.

If you are interested in industrial design, e-waste, energy or just gadgets in general, I highly recommend checking out all the ideas and innovations that were in the spotlight.

• Greener Gadgets 2008 Wrap Up
• Greener Gadgets Design Competition Winners
• Greener Gadgets Videos

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Highlights from Greener Gadgets 2008

There is a growing awareness and a rise in activism in how to handle e-waste responsibly and it may be easier than you think. Here are some of the best resources from around the web for recycling electronics with the Earth in mind.

How to e-Cycle Your Gadgets at Earth2Tech: Resources found here include one of the front runners the Basel Action Network as well as some easy picks you may not know. Tech is the specialty at Earth2Tech and this is a valuable resource for responsible e-waste recycling.

Think Before You Recycle at Inhabitat: This article by Jennifer van der Meer of o2-NYC takes an in-depth look at the problem of e-waste worldwide and offers lots of resources and ideas for ways you can be part of the solution.

E-Cycling Gets Even Greener at Earth2Tech: This read takes a look at different ways that electronics companies are taking responsibility at the end of gadget life with incentives to get consumers to recycle. Included in the mix are Target, Dell and more so head over to Earth2Tech to find out how companies are taking back their e-waste.

At myGreenElectronics you can enter your zip code and find electronics recylers in your neck of the woods.

EPA has the scoop on eCycling here and a list of places where you can recycle old computers and other electronics here.

Earth 911 is a one-stop resource for environmental how-to and you can find community-specific information on eCycling here.

Got a tip on e-cycling for our readers? Leave a comment.

Also, check out Tech Recycling at Staples: Is It That Easy?

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Resources for Recycling Office Electronics – Spring Cleaning Week

They don’t make chargers or batteries for this phone anymore. The word of the day was “obsolete”, as in you are the sucker who bought a product which would become obsolete before its useful life was over. And as in we are the company who sold you a product that would quickly become obsolete and we aren’t going to do anything when it does.

I understand that technology evolves very fast. However, there is a problem when companies don’t take responsibility for end use. Cell phones, computers, DVD players and all the soon-to-be obsolete parts that are sold with them have created the major global problem of how to deal with e-waste. Very little of our gadgets get recycled and when they do it is often to the detriment of the environment, developing countries or already disenfranchised segments of our society.

Tackling this and other sustainability issues within the technology industry is the focus of the Greener Gadgets Conference in NYC February 1st, 2008. Greener Gadgets is a one day conference featuring key representatives from some of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world, innovators from academic thinktanks, members of startups focused on renewable energy, and some of the leading minds in the word of sustainable design and business.

Industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer electronics industry.

Topics to be addressed include: design for sustainability, product life cycle management, take-back and recycling programs, energy efficiency, greener materials, and green lifestyle and product marketing. An attached gallery space will feature a green prototype office display and technology exhibits from companies on the cutting edge of green tech.

I’ll be there, will you? Learn more and get involved at the Greener Gadgets website!

Also check out this great resource on e-waste by Jennifer Van Der Meer of o2-NYC. And the GreenPeace Guide to Greener Electronics.

What’s your idea of a green gadget? Got a design in mind? Check out the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, over $4,500 in prizes up for grabs for ideas that bring solutions for greener electronics.

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Why We Need Greener Gadgets

At Inhabitat

• A (Supposedly) Greener CES Starts Today in Las Vegas
• Samsung Launches New Low Energy 31″ OLED TV
• Fujitsu Unveils Laptop Made From Corn

At Earth2Tech

• The Green Guide to CES
• CES Green Gadget Wrap Up

CES highlights its efforts to make the show greener on their website here including steps like:

• Recycling bins will be placed across the show floor this year to divert cans, cups, glass products and paper
• All CES flyers are printed on recycled paper using soy inks
• Remaining show publications and flyers will be recycled at the close of the event
• Attendee food containers and utensils are biodegradable, made from hemp, corn byproduct or other organic materials
• Environmentally friendly chemicals are used in maintaining over 100 restrooms daily, replacing more than 15,000 gallons of non-sustainable products
• The Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) has switched to recycled paper products including toilet paper, facial tissue and paper towels
• All light bulbs and batteries used by the show are recycled and diverted from landfills
• Hazardous waste disposal programs are in affect for waste oil, paints and solvents
• Recycled carpet will be used in some convention spaces at the LVCC

These and other initiatives were done in partnership with Discovery Communications’ Planet Green.

Did you go to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show? Did you see green?

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What’s Green at the Consumer Electronics Show?

Greener Gadgets is a one day conference featuring key representatives from some of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world, innovators from academic thinktanks, members of startups focused on renewable energy, and some of the leading minds in the word of sustainable design and business.

Industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer electronics industry.

Topics to be addressed include: design for sustainability, product life cycle management, take-back and recycling programs, energy efficiency, greener materials, and green lifestyle and product marketing. An attached gallery space will feature a green prototype office display and technology exhibits from companies on the cutting edge of green tech.

The Greener Gadgets conference will showcase revolutionary design and tech innovations that will shape the future of the consumer electronics and change your world… for the better.

Presenters include representatives from HP, Nokia, Sony, Philips, Intel, EPEAT, the Green Electronics Council, IDEO, Engadget, Earth2Tech/GigaOm and many others to be announced.

Learn more and get involved at the Greener Gadgets website!

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Announcing the Greener Gadgets Conference!