Greener Gadget Awards 2010

The Green Gadget awards are taking place February 25 at the Greener Gadget Conference.  Tackling all issues surrounding energy efficiency and sustainable design, innovative packaging and product manufacturing to end of life manufacturing solutions.  It highlights ways electricity makes a major impact by utalizing renewable energy. 

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One of the finalists is the Orange Power Solar Powered Tent.  It will charge your cell phone and computer so you can stay connected even in the wildest of locations and glows orange so you can find your way home in the dark.  Brilliant!

Voting is unfortunately closed but take a look at all the finalists and start imagining thier use in making your ecological footprint lighter or if you are the entrepreneurial type, you may want to set a deadline for your invention and enter next years contest.

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Tamara Wallop

How Sustainable is your Household? Take this five minute Ecological Footprint Quiz.

Take a break from what you are doing to do this cool interactive survey to determine your ecological footprint.  It will give you a printout of the statistics and how your household compares to the area you live. Print out the report with tips on how you can take action to reduce your footprint. 

Sustainable Lighting Can Be Beautiful - Its Not Just About Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs

Artist Profile: Brian Schmitt - The funniest home videos are here

Brian Schmitt of Schmitt Design in San Francisco, Ca designs some beautiful handcrafted lighting that is also sustainable.  The bamboo veneer shade panels are produced from sustainably managed bamboo forests and create an inviting warm glow.  The innovative design is combined with an energy-efficient light source. The shade panels are inserted with out the use of glue or fasteners and are able to be shipped flat to minimize packaging.

Luxury Architecture- Sustainable & Green in Montecito, CA

We are currently under construction in Montecito on this home that we collaboratively designed with the MKD Michelle Kaufmann Designs This home originally was intended to the be a modular house, sustainable and as green as they get. We have converted the project to be a custom built, site built, sustainable house and a LEED for HOMES project where we are setting our goal at Platinum LEED Certification. We will be posting about this house, this project and the LEED certification process as we progress through the project. We just wanted to introduce you to the project now, after all it's Green Week on NBC. In the Luxury Real Estate market in Santa Barbara and Montecito this will be a first.

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