Shopping for Green Gadgets with Jill Fehrenbacher

by Emily Gertz · 2009-02-19 08:50:00 UTC
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Jill Fehrenbacher

Who doesn't love a good gadget? I sure do -- but it's aggravating how few choices there are that meet the sweet spot where utility, great design, energy-efficiency and enviro-friendly materials overlap.

Jill Fehrenbacher -- founder of the green design site Inhabitat, and a fellow contributor to the book Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century -- goes shopping with The New York Times today for some good green gadgets, and finds some that hit the sweet spot. Instead of inventing and then solving problems that we didn't have before ('How can I get my iPhone to make a fart noise?'), the devices she picked address a refreshingly average array of quandries that a climate-minded consumer might have ('Couldn't I recharge my cell phone with a little solar cell, instead of plugging it into the wall?' or 'How can I figure out how much energy my appliances using?').

Jill is the founder of the Greener Gadgets Conference, where designers, tech and electronics companies, and entrepreneurs gather to see how their cohorts are combining sustainability with consumer electronics. I'll be covering his year's confab right here, next Friday, Feb. 27.

In the meantime, if you too love a good green gadget, go check out the top entries in the Greener Gadgets/core 77 design competition, and vote for your favorites. The top 10 will be judged live at the conference next week

Emily Gertz
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