Archive for the 'Environmental' Category

Green Your Digital Home

By Laura Hubbard
Part 3 of the Green Life Smart Life Series
CEA and the consumer electronics industry love green.  In fact, CEA supports the Green Life Smart Life home to show that a home built intelligently with consumer electronic products can be green and earn a coveted LEED certification.
Link to Part 1 and Part 2 [...]

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Greener Gadgets Conference and Design Contest – Vote Now!

By Carolyn Slater
In just over a week’s time (on February 25), the Greener Gadgets Conference will take place in New York City. If you are interested in issues of energy efficiency, sustainable design, reduced and recyclable packaging, product end-of-life solutions as well as renewable energy, you should plan on attending. Frankly, nowadays who isn’t [...]

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Four Overlooked Tech Trends From CES

By Guest Blogger Brent Butterworth, Contributing Technical Editor, Sound + Vision Magazine
Websites and cable TV channels are packed with news from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But with thousands of exhibitors spread out through several convention halls and hotels, there are always lots of stories that go overlooked. Here are four we found [...]

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

Happy New Year and on To CES

By Carolyn Slater
Here at CEA, the New Year means pretty much one thing – CES! Actual reflection on the year just passed and plans for the beginning of a bright and hopeful new year has to wait while we make our last-minute preparations for the largest electronics trade show in the world. Sure, most [...]

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Simplify Your Life with Home Automation

By Laura Hubbard
Part 2 of the Green Life Smart Life Series

As I explained in my first post, Living an Eco-friendly Lifestyle through Technology, technology is a major focus of the Green Life Smart Life (GLSL) project. Normally when you read about green building, a lot of attention is placed on the types of materials [...]

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Living An Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Through Technology

By Laura Hubbard
Part 1 of the Green Life Smart Life Series
Last week, I traveled to Narragansett, Rhode Island to the Green Life Smart Life (GLSL) home for its announcement of becoming officially rated by the U.S .Green Building Council (USGBC) as a GOLD certified LEED® for Homes Project.
CEA is proud to sponsor this project [...]

Friday, December 18th, 2009

I’m Dreaming of A green Christmas

By Jennifer Bemisderfer

In my job, I talk about electronics recycling every day. I could recite resources for electronics recycling in my sleep, so it’s easy to forget that people who don’t live and breathe this stuff like I do might be confused about how and where to recycle their old or unwanted TVs, computers, [...]

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Regen Shines as Another i-stage Success Story

By Joseph Gizzi
Regen’s ReNu is proving that i-stage will not hit a sophomore slump, as the winner of the second annual competition has already garnered critical praise on par with the inaugural champ Boxee.
In the same month that boxee announced expansions to its own product line, Regen took the spotlight and charged up tech [...]

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Growing Green Businesses – Bits Limited, Inventors of the Smart Strip

By Carolyn Slater
Based on the interest it’s already receiving, one of the hottest places to be in January 2010 at the International CES will be the Sustainable Planet spotlight. This spotlight features exhibitors who have “green” products or services. For one of these exhibitors, Bits Limited, it will be their eighth year at CES.
Recently [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

What Does the Public think About E-Waste Recycling?

By Jennifer Bemisderfer
Last Thursday, Pike Research released an interesting study, “Electronics Recycling and E-Waste Issues,” shedding light on the public’s opinion regarding the problem of escalating waste from discarded, outdated devices. This independent survey found that while 76 percent of Americans consider recycling to be the best option for reducing e-waste, only 10 percent [...]

Monday, November 23rd, 2009