Contributor Ed Downing is a manager on the GE at TED Whiteboard Project.
TED. Three small letters representing the epitome of insight and creativity. For those of you who may be staring blankly at the screen at this point, the TED Conference is an annual event that brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers in the arenas of technology, entertainment and design.

Collaborating TEDsters: Attendees at this year's TED conference had a chance to discuss ideas for a more sustainable economy via GE's onsite digital whiteboards.
This year, GE teamed up with TED on a series of digital whiteboard sessions that allowed attendees to collaborate on new ways of thinking about global sustainability. Thus was born, The GE at TED Whiteboard Project.

We posed daily questions to attendees on how the world could move towards a more sustainable economy. True to their status as leaders of industry and thought, the TEDsters dreamed up some pretty big ideas that did not disappoint. (Two interesting ideas worth sharing: listing energy consumption information on products like nutrition information is displayed on food and using kites to generate electricity.)

In the end, close to 1,400 ideas, musings, ramblings and thoughts made their way to the whiteboard from TEDsters and the larger ecomagination.com community.

If you’d like to see just what the whiteboard is all about, you can check out all of the whiteboard content at www.ecomagination.com/ted.