Calling All PLANETWORKERS!
My tip this week is a personal project and an item I hope will be of value to
you.
I am part of a high-tech group producing a conference called PLANETWORK to
take place May 12-14, 2000 in the San Francisco Presidio’s Golden Gate Club.
The conference will focus on how information technology can support global
ecology. PLANETWORK speakers are a mix of local and international experts
from a wide range of vocations: science, information & computer technology,
business, consciousness and cybernetics, green politics, and the arts.
Featured speakers include Jan Hauser (Sun Microsystems), Kevin Kelly (Wired),
Julia Butterfly Hill (tree-sitter & green activist), Gloria Brown Simmons
(MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies), Bruce Sterling (sci-fi author),
Meredith Lane, (biologist, Academy of Natural Science), Jon Zilber
(verde.com), Eduardo Kac (Art Institute of Chicago), Tyler Volk (Professor of
Biology, NYU; NASA), Pierre Levy (Hypermedia, University of Paris-VIII), John
Helly (Supercomputer Center; UC San Diego), John Radke (UC Berkeley), Adam
Werbach (Sierra Club, past president), John Delaney (U of WA; Neptune
Project), Char Davies (digital artist), Elisabeth Sahtouris (biologist,
futurist), Duane Elgin, Brian Swimme, Ralph Abraham, and David Rothenberg.
For those who cannot attend physically, PLANETWORK will also provide a live
‘webcast’ that will broadcast selected presentations over the web. PLANETWORK
forums in Venice, Italy and London, England will mirror our event with their
own speakers and joint discussion. Additional interviews will be streamed
over the web in the digital format for audio called MP3.
One room in the dramatic Golden Gate Club will feature public-access
computers with a fast T-1 access to the web. This will allow entrepreneurs to
show off their 'web wares' and demo sites to other interested collaborators.
In addition to the scheduled plenary and smaller working sessions, PLANETWORK
staff will host workshops on multi-media tools and web applications.
Television crews from Global Village Beijing and Environmental News Network
(ENN) will be onsite
For a complete listing of speakers, forums, and a conference schedule, see
the PLANETWORK website at http://www.planetworkers.org. The conference is
open to the public and PLANETWORK organizers encourage participation from
local IT professionals, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, and anyone
interested in building an ecologically sustainable future.
If nothing else, check out our website -- rich with personality and informative
links.
