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PLANETWORK Team Launches IT/Ecology Conference at the Presidio San Francisco- A high tech group working to accelerate awareness of the global ecological crisis has announced a conference called "PLANETWORK" to take place May 12-14, 2000 in the Presidio's Golden Gate Club. The conference will focus on, what some might call, the unlikely intersection of two worlds: information technology and global ecology. "This conference is not just about theory," says Jim Fournier, one of the PLANETWORK founders. "We want to create a forum to showcase how digital tools are already being used to help the environment and to inspire new scientific collaborations and sustainable business projects." The explosion of digital information technology is transforming the way we inhabit and perceive the earth. This conference will explore how the creative application of digital tools-scientific visualization, interactive databases, GIS-based systems and computational modeling, as well as the Internet itself-can open up new possibilities for environmental activism and positive global change. PLANETWORK will feature both local and international experts from a wide range of disciplines and vocations-science, technology, business, green politics & activism, 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, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and David Rothenberg PLANETWORK co-founder and conference co-director, Elizabeth Thompson comments on the unprecedented mix of presenters, "In a climate of increasingly specialized web-based 'community,' we are creating a forum for innovative people, who might not ordinarily be found in the same place, to meet, enrich and inspire each other." For a complete listing of speakers, forums, and a conference schedule, see the PLANETWORK website at 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. For more information, contact PLANETWORK at 415-436-0123 (voicemail), 415-621-7790 (fax), or register online at www.planetworkers.org. PLANETWORK is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a California 501c3 non-profit organization. For further information: |