The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded a grant to the non-profit organization GreenBlue (www.greenblue.org) to conduct a design competition as a forum to rethink and innovate existing computer products into more sustainable flows of services and materials. An awards ceremony will be held at the upcoming 2004 IEEE Symposium on Electronics and the Environment (ISEE).
The 12th ISEE and the fifth annual Electronics Recycling Summit will be May 10-13, 2004, at the Double Tree Paradise Valley Resort, Scottsdale.
GreenBlue award recipients will present their ideas to IEEE symposium attendees in a dedicated breakout session. Currently, Hewlett Packard is participating as a major sponsor and Lexmark International is a contributing sponsor of the awards program. GreenBlue is looking for computer and electronics manufacturers and recyclers to participate as sponsors of the awards and ceremony program.
Entrants are submitting their ideas for transforming product design and recovery and recycling system designs at the end of following product use. Desktop and laptop computers and displays are the central focus of this competition.
GreenBlue has solicited submissions from students, faculty and researchers from more than 180 departments with diverse disciplines, as well as independent designers and consultants. A panel of nine judges has been assembled from industry, academia, consulting and the NGO community.
The deadline for all entries to the competition is February 28, 2004.
GreenBlue is a non-profit, 501c3 tax-exempt organization created to provide the theoretical, technical and information tools required to transform industry into an economically profitable, ecologically regenerative and socially empowering activity through intelligent design.
Those seeking additional information about the eDesign Competition should visit GreenBlue’s Web site at www.greenblue.org/edesign or call James Ewell, program director, at (434) 817-1424 or at james.ewell@greenblue.org.