Are greener gadgets even possible?  The urge to buy the latest
gadget and to reform environmental misbehavior may be the twin
pillars of 21st century American youth culture, but can the two
ever be reconciled? Apple, Dell, Intel, Nokia and
others—companies with an array of "green" initiatives and (more)
environmentally friendly products—sure hope so. But wind power
kite scientist and serial inventor Saul Griffith is skeptical,
according to his keynote address at the Greener Gadgets
conference in New York City this past Friday.  Griffith, the
intellectual force behind ( where you can calculate the energy
use of your lifestyle), has another term for the gadget-
obsessed, himself included: "planet f&*kers." A detailed
analysis of the energy required to produce everything from his
daily glass of wine to his iPhone revealed that Griffiths
requires some 25,000 watts of energy every day, or nearly twice
that of the average American (who is already consuming at least
six times as much as the average person in China an