On February 1st, 2008 in New York City industry leaders, entrepreneurs, journalists, and designers will gather to discuss the business case for the greening of the consumer electronics industry.

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.

Topics to be addressed include: design for sustainability, product life cycle management, take-back and recycling programs, energy efficiency, greener materials, and green lifestyle and product marketing. An attached gallery space will feature a green prototype office display and technology exhibits from companies on the cutting edge of green tech.

How o2NYC is involved:

As a supporting sponsors, we're going to ask our o2NYC membership to help volunteer at the event - in exchange for free admission. We'll rotate volunteer times so that all have a change to participate.

If you want to attend the event in full or secure one of the student passes at a reduced rate, register now, the event will sell out quickly.

Register here: Greener Gadgets

Or, email Jennifer to sign up for our volunteer staff: j@o2nyc.org

HauteGREEN is an o2-NYC sponsored annual event, in conjunction with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair. Held this year May 19-22, HauteGREEN is an exhibition of the best in sustainable design for the contemporary home, showcasing furniture, lighting, and accessories that are both aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly.

Find out more information and submit your application for HauteGREEN 2007.

www.hautegreen.com

Learn about HauteGREEN 2006:

HauteGREEN
HauteGREEN Sneak Peek: The Best in Sustainable Design

Overview:

In 2003, o2NYC hosted Assignment: Green, an exhibit and symposium on green design education in New York City, at the Municipal Art Society. The curated exhibit, held from March 13 - April 29, 2003, covered New York area college level student work and spanned several design fields including architecture, planning, interior design, product/industrial design, fashion, and graphics/communication design as well as related business and policy fields.

The purpose of the event was to both illustrate the current state of green design education and to promote a more aggressive greening of design education. Design schools are beginning to realize that ecological design innovation is an essential ingredient in useful, desirable and responsible design; one that is soon to become intrinsic to all design curricula and corporate design strategies.

As New York area design schools continue to focus more closely on sustainability and methods for eco-design, they will produce a pool of ecologically oriented graduates, and in turn, make the city a world leader for eco-design research, manufacturing and education. When these graduates begin working in NYC companies, they will influence and strengthen those companies’ green aspects, creating a green design business “hotbed.” So the larger purpose of Assignment: Green is to sharpen the focus of design
programs that can, in turn, make the city a world center for ecodesign research, manufacturing and education.

On April 2, 2003, o2NYC hosted the Assignment: Green roundtable forum, facilitated by Metropolis Magazine editor-in-chief, Susan Szenasy, to convene students, educators and department heads from New York's design schools along with local business leaders to debate and envision the future of green design education.

Exhibit Design:

Assignment: Green's exhibit was constructed largely of sustainable and re-used materials. Used cardboard tubes were salvaged from Mecho Shade. Xorel fabric panels from Carnegie were re-utilized from another exhibit, and illuminated with energy fluorescent tubes. Homasote boards were locally produced from 100% recycled newspapers. Other materials included hemp fabric, hemp twine and white glue.

Participating Schools:

CCNY -- Graduate Program in Urban Design

Columbia University -- School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Cooper Union -- Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Art

Fashion Institute of Technology -- Fashion Design, Home Products, Development and Marketing

Fordham University -- Environmental Studies

Parsons School of Design -- School of Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting, Department of Product Design, Department of Fashion Design, Center for New Design


Pratt Institute -- Industrial Design, Undergraduate Architecture, Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment, Fashion Design

FIT/Parsons/Pratt Fashion Apprenticeships

o2NYC gratefully acknowledges the support of: Municipal Art Society, Keyspan, Herman Miller, Knoll Materials and services by: Hixon Design Consultants Red Rooster Group, J Ottman Consulting, Inc., Modern World Design, Square Indigo, National MicroRentals, Hewlett-Packard Company

The Municipal Art Society gratefully acknowledges the ongoing support of: The H. Van Ameringen Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

Exhibit Committee: David Bergman, Erika Doering, Eva Hanhardt, Martha Kellerhals, John Napolitano, and Lisa Smith.

2006 CitySol dates!

June 25, July 23, & August 13, 1- 8pm.

Visit the new CitySol 2006 site.

CitySol 2005: Solar music party, green power sign-up drive and ecodesign market, Saturday, October 1, 2005. 1-7 pm at Solar1 in Stuyvesant Cove Park 2420 FDR Drive. o2NYC joined up with Solar1, Bright Power and ConEd Solutions to cohost a solar music party, green power sign up drive and ecodesign market. Part festival, part sustainable product marketplace, this all-day, free outdoor event connected green designers and entrepreneurs to the public in an energized atmosphere of music, dance and celebration.

The event was also be the last stop on greenhomenyc's green building tour. On stage were accomplished DJs and musical acts, including Matthias Heilbronn (Wave Music); Cato (Turntables on the Hudson); Marc-Allan Gray (LoveSlap); Corey Backer (Unknown People); Natasha DeGraff (KillDJ); Red Robot, and other special guests. Amplification for the event was powered entirely by Solar One’s 3.5 kWh Photovoltaic array.

Bar and refreshments were be provided courtesy of the Brooklyn Brewery, Habana Outpost, and Sambazon. Other partners in the event include some of the city’s most notable green retailers, including 3R Living, Build it Green, and Vivavi.com. CitySol also hosted New York’s first ever Green Power Sign Up Drive, sponsored by ConEd Solutions, enlisting new clean electricity (wind and/or low impact Hydro) customers throughout the day.

o2NYC is proud to announce o2|e2, a new and exciting project to promote the eco-design industry in NYC through an expo event and online database scheduled for 2008.

The Impetus

There is a growing, but largely unrecognized, community of green design businesses sprouting in the five boroughs of New York City. These businesses, whether design consultancies, architecture firms, manufacturing companies or related services, constitute a nascent industry. This industry has the potential to become a significant and positive economic sector for the city, portraying New York as a center for ecological thinking while creating “green-collar” jobs.

o2|e2 is a project to boost both these businesses and the city through a survey, online database, and expo event designed to showcase the green design sector in New York.

How you can help

We are currently collecting names of New York City-based businesses, organizations and individuals who are involved in eco-design in any way. You can help us by submitting names that you know. So that we can generate the most inclusive list possible, please include all potential contacts you can think of, even if they seem obvious. Please feel free to include your own business and projects.

Forward this link to your colleagues, networks, and personal contacts who may have suggestions to contribute. The list gathered from this process will then be used to contact people for the first comprehensive survey of eco-design companies, services and related individuals, so your suggestions and participation are highly valuable!

We are looking for companies in these categories

• Design/Architecture: architects, interior architects, landscape architects, interior designers, furniture designers, product designers, industrial designers, packaging designers, graphic designers, apparel designers, engineers and others.
• Services: green marketers and advertisers, business incubators, investors and advisors, material suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers.
• Other: professional networks, nonprofits, resource organizations, potential sponsors, community economic development organizations and interested others.



Thank You,
Rebecca Silver and David Bergman

Rebecca Silver
Co-Vice Chair o2NYC

David Bergman
o2|e2 Project Director