Compostmodern is an interdisciplinary design conference dedicated to promoting sustainable solutions within the design community at large. It will be held in San Francisco this Saturday, January 19, 2008.
This is a great opportunity to get insight on the role of design in the shift towards sustainability from some of the most respected voices on business, environment and design.
Speakers include
Joel Makower (GreenBiz.com) a well- respected voice on business, the environment, and the bottom line. The Associated Press has called him the guru of green business practices. Joel is co-founder and executive editor …read more

I’ve been with the same cell provider for five about five years. I actually don’t use the cell phone daily but it was and remains my “land line” in the US. On a recent visit, I tried to get a new charger for the phone, which is all of 2 years old, and the salesperson acted like I wanted parts for an antique.
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 …read more

Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher has teamed up with Marc Alt + Partners to present 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 …read more