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February 13, 2008

VIDEO: Chris Jordan At Greener Gadgets

by Jill Fehrenbacher


Our recent Greener Gadgets Conference featured speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Not only did we invite inventors, engineers, and representatives from the world’s biggest consumer electronics manufacturers, but we also made a conscious decision to spice up the Greener Gadgets dialog with artists, educators and environmental advocates. Nowhere was this diversity better represented than in the Greener Gadgets opening keynote presentation from environmental artist Chris Jordan, whose presentation you can watch in the video above.

Although our short video sadly doesn’t do justice to Jordan’s massive, mind-boggling photographs, (which take up entire walls in galleries), the video provides insight into the vision behind the art, and the innovative method Jordan uses to visualize statistics as fine art. Watch the full-length version of Chris Jordan’s inspiring keynote here, and be sure to check out our other Greener Gadgets videos as well >
(New videos are being added daily).


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Cell phones #2, Atlanta 2005

Download the podcast of Chris Jordan’s entire 30 minute presentation here >

We’ve highlighted Chris Jordan’s amazing work before on Inhabitat, including his Running the Numbers exhibition which illustrated the sheer volume of American consumption. You can see more of Jordan’s stunning work below, and also online at ChrisJordan.com >


+ Chris Jordan website

+ Greener Gadgets Conference

Greener Gadgets Intro video >

Greener Gadgets Design Competition Winners >

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‘CELL PHONES’ Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day

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Circuit boards #2, New Orleans 2005

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Energizer- Depicts 170,000 disposable Energizer batteries, equal to fifteen minutes of Energizer battery production.

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Energizer partial zoom

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Energizer at full print size

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‘JET TRAILS’ depicts 11,000 jet trails - equal to the number of commercial flights in the US every eight hours

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