|
For Immediate Release Webby Award Winner Utne Cafe to Host PLANETWORK Online San Francisco-PLANETWORK and the Utne Reader are pleased to announce the opening of an interactive online component for the PLANETWORK Conference beginning today, May 12 at 3:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time. Utne Cafe, fresh from a triumphal Webby Ceremony, where it bagged the top award in the Community category, will be hosting a discussion of information technology and global ecology topics on the PLANETWORK webcast site. "Our intention is to make the proceedings of the conference accessible to as many people across the globe as possible," says Jim Fournier, one of the PLANETWORK founders and co-executive director. People who are not able to physically come to the live conference this weekend and who have Internet access, will be able to sign on to www.planetworkers.net, log-in with an email address, and view portions of the conference live online. Participating in the conference at this site is free. "We've brought together a team of experts to show off some of the best capabilities of Īstreamingā audio and video information on the web," says PLANETWORK webcast director and technical advisor, James Kalin. "Join us and the award winning Utne Cafe team at our online site." PLANETWORK will feature both local and international experts from a wide range of disciplines and vocations: science, technology, business, green politics and 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, futuri st), Duane Elgin, Brian Swimme, Ralph Abraham, and David Rothenberg. PLANETWORK is still accepting registrations for the conference or walk-in registration is possible. For a complete listing of speakers and forums see the PLANETWORK website at www.planetworkers.org. PLANETWORK is a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE), a California 501c3 non-profit organization. For further information: Cate Gable
|