PLANETWORK Conference
updated May 10, 2000 - 10:00 pm PDT
Saturday, May 13, 2000

9:00 am

West Room
Center Room
East Room

Macro-Phase Power and Micro-Phase Wisdom

Brian Swimme
cosmologist, co-author of The Universe Story, creator of the video series Canticle to the Cosmos

What does Technology Want?

Kevin Kelly
Executive Editor, WiRed, author of New Rules for a New Economy and Out of Control

Digging Through the AstroTurf

Josh Knauer
Founder of Envirolink.org and CEO of GreenMarketplace.com

Living Systems, the Internet
and the Human Future

Elisabet Sahtouris
Evolutionary biologist, futurist and co-author of Biology Revisioned

Swords into Plowshares: Cold War
remote sensing for Conservation


Jan Hauser
Principal Architect at Sun Microsystems

Revolutionizing Environmental Defense
Using the Web


Bill Pease
former director Internet Projects at EDF, created: scorecard.org information about local environmental quality & actionnetwork.org enables digital lobbying

11:00 - 11:30 am - Break 11:20 am - Earth Machine Music

Global Biodiversity Information,
a Facility for the Future


Meredith Lane
Vice President of Biodiversity at the Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility team

New Directions for Earth and Planetary
Visualization


Gloria Brown Simmons
Research Fellow at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, formerly Visualization Manager with the White House GLOBE Program, and involved with visualization from Galileo, Voyager and Viking space probes at CalTech

 

Adam Werbach
host of the environmental newsmagazine ThinGreenLine, founder of Act Now Productions, frequent guest on ABC TVŐs Politically Incorrect, formerly the youngest ever, President of the Sierra Club

Application Challenges for
Geographic Information Science


John Radke
Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley using GIS systems for environmental planning

Slip-sliding Between the Virtual and the Real: Re-presenting Nature in Immersive VR Environments

Char Davies
renowned digital artist, creator of the virtual reality works: Osmose, Ephemere and Immersense

Ecologically-sustainable Economic Growth in China?...Yes!

Sheri Xiaoyi Liao

Founder and President of Global Village of Beijing one of China's most well known environmental NGO's

1:00 - 2:30 pm - Lunch 2:20 pm - Earth Machine Music  

Afternoon Sessions

2:30 pm

West Room
Center Room
East Room
Room A
Room B

Art in the Post-Human Matrix
Ebon Fisher
-Digital Worlds, U. of Iowa & David Rothenberg
-Terra Nova
Elizabeth Thompson - Planetwork

Greening the Media
David Irons - AScribe News Bureau
Alex Barnum - SF Chronicle
with
Jerry Kay

GIS in Ecology & Conservation Biology
Chris Davis -
CommEn Space
Pliny Fisk
- Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems

Jan Hauser - Sun Microsytems

John Radke - UC Berkeley

Green Interfaces
Michael Naimark
& Carlos Seligo
with
Erik Davis

EDF Websites
Ben Smith - EDF
4:00 - 4:30 pm - Break
Earth Machine Music
 
The Contested Journey:
Nature & Cyberspace

Jennifer Cobb, Char Davies
& Carol Gigliotti
WTO: Beyond Seattle
Richard Plevin - Global Exchange
Allan Hunt-Badiner
- RAN, Shane Korytko & Sheri Herndon - Indy Media Center
Green Portals &
e-commerce

Josh Knauer - GreenMarketplace.com
Joel Makower
- GreenBiz.com
Jon Zilber - Verde.com

Youth, Media
& Gaia

Ronan Hallowell, Kenji Williams and guest

Techie Talk Tutorial
your chance for straight simple answers from a certified techno geek Mike Vincenty


6:00 - 7:30 pm Networking Reception background music: Matt Buttler & Troy Lush of the Redwood Project
9:30 pm PlanetaryJamSpace
join us for an ambient chill South of Market
limited tickets available at the conference @$5 towards DJ's & beverages


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