CES taps green partner to offset impact of massive tech confab

Summary: Green the theme for CES.

If you've been feeling green-guilty over how your attendance at next month's massive Consumer Electronics Show will affect the environment, you might be happy that the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is again putting a big focus on how its massive trade show impacts the planet.

The organization has hired EarthEra to help advise it about making the event as sustainable and energy-efficient as possible. This will include the purchase of green e-certified renewable energy certificates to counter the electricity used and carbon dioxide emissions produced by the show's physical footprint (including the hotel rooms you're staying in during your stay in Vegas).

Materials left behind in the Las Vegas Convention will be recycled by the facility on an ongoing basis through the Environmental Protection Agency's WasteWise Program, and the food you buy from Aramark while running around between meetings is sourced organically and locally. (The utensils and napkins you'll be using are biodegradable.)

CEA has also ponied up $50,000 that will go toward T-3 Motion electric vehicles to be used by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

If you're there looking for more information about green technology and which products are the greenest of their class, you should visit the Sustainable Planet exhibit area.

Here's more information on the "greening of CES."

Topic: Telcos

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  • "Going Green" is a real scam.

    While I have no problem with conservation of natural resources, I have a real problem with the ammount of money that is being spent in the name of "going green". Wanting to "save the planet" is a lofty and laudable goal. It's just too bad that so many individuals and organizations are figuring out how to make such a profit from it at the expense of guilty feeling people who don't know any better. Recycling, using less energy, using materials in smarter ways are all great things but figuring out how to do so doesn't cost anywhere near as much as CEA is spending on it. The organization CEA hired to consult them on this "going green" stuff should be ashamed of themselves (speaking of being guilty) for charging such crazy amounts of money to give their advice. All of the measures that are discussed in the article are common sense, no-brainers that don't cost an arm and a leg to figure out. I could have told CEA about all of those things and how to do them over a round of drinks at a bar in one evening for free. Well, the CES rep could have at least bought the drinks, but otherwise, I wouldn't have charged them thousands for the advice.

    Also, this business of buying carbon offsets and carbon credits makes me sick. It does nothing except make the one paying the credits feel a little less guilty (if they buy into the whole crazy notion) and make the one receiving the money richer. It's a big con game. There is zero proof that any of the money spent on carbon credits really and truly prevents even one cubic foot of CO2 from being released in the air. For that matter, there is no real proof that CO2 being released in the air has anything to do with affecting "climate change".

    The earth's climate has been changing ever since the planet came into existence. It will continue changing whether we humans like it or not, no matter what we do or don't do.

    I'm all for keeping the air breathable, the water drinkable and the soil free of chemicals; but this notion of affecting climate change is bunk.

    I wish CEA and other organizations, governments and people would stop wasting money on the "going green" scam.
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