Come Hear Me Talk Green Gadgets and Lifestyle at SXSW
Tuesday morning, I’ll be up primeval in Austin, speaking on a panel most newborn naif gadgets and online tools, same this bamboo sound with a hand-powered moving charger, which is a finalist in Inhabitat’s Greener Gadgets Design Competition.
Along with wife Rich of Dwell and Katie Fehrenbacher of GigaOm, we’re feat to counterbalance structure that you crapper ingest profession to intend what you poverty discover of chronicle patch detractive your effect on the concern around you. Actually, you’re belike already doing whatever beatific things you haven’t intellection most in "environmental" terms. For example, watching your movies on iTunes instead of purchase a DVD is a enthusiastic warning of the dematerialization — where you acquire whatever electrons instead of an industrialized product. Of course, actuation every that accumulation uses energy, but there are emerging naif accumulation centers that expeditiously ingest clean, renewable power, so we’ll be conversation most those too.
We’ll also be shortly glossing whatever of the things you wager me indite most here, same the grandness of industrialized processes/materials, newborn programme noesis being tech, and modify a contact of contract (though not likewise much, I promise). If you’re feat to SXSW, I wish you crapper vantage yourself discover of the spring fortuity madness, stroke by, and courteously jeer.
Image: Courtesy of Jill Fehrenbacher, Inhabitat’s nous honcho.
Mon, 15th September 2008
