GoingGreen 2008 in Sausalito This Week

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Goinggreen_gg2 I wish I had time to go to this “all things green” event, a combined effort between AlwaysOn and Morgan Stanley. GoingGreen 2008 is taking place at Cavallo Point in Sausalito, CA through tomorrow end of day. Program line-up here.

Some of the speakers include J. Craig Venter, Chairman & Founder of Synthetic Genomics, Elon Musk, Chairman of Tesla Motors, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures, Michelle Kaufmann, CEO of Michelle Kaufmann Design, Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and Ira Ehrenpreis, General Partner of Technology Partners.

In addition to this all-star keynote line-up and the panel debates, the program includes 40 private company CEO Showcases from a wide range of sectors, including Solar Energy, Biofuel & Agriculture, Clean Energy, Energy Storage Systems, Energy Management, Smart Grid & Energy Efficiency, Water Technology & Water Management, Green Materials, Green Buildings, Green Nano/Micro-Tech, Green Automobiles & Transportation, Clean Manufacturing & Clean Products, and Resource Recovery & Waste Management.

If you’re into greentech, this is an event you won’t want to miss.

They’ll also have a CEO showcase followed by a panel discussion on abundant clean green water. Every year, technologies to totally recycle water at a building and municipal scale are getting better and more affordable. Drip irrigation and other water-efficiency innovations promise to greatly reduce the quantity of water necessary for commercial agriculture. And desalination capacity, using dramatically improved technologies, is growing faster than ever. What technologies and companies are going to guarantee the world enters an era of water abundance?

Global Water Intelligence editor-in-chief Christopher Gasson is moderating this session, together with Anup Jacob, Partner, Virgin Green Fund, Miox CEO Carlos PErea and Siemens CTO Joe Zubeck.

The Next Generation Biofuel session also looks interesting. Will new plants and growing techniques combined with cost-effective cellulosic extraction methods increase biofuel yields per square mile per year from 5,000 to 50,000 barrels? Will biofuel be produced in a tank, using growth cultures of genetically modified algae? Will biofuel come from factories with minimal footprints, or from extremely high yields on cropland? What is the future of biofuel, who is driving that future, and when is it going to get here?

Also, the one on the Carbon Offset Windfall. Whether we have carbon taxes, carbon trading, or both, the magnitude of the potential transfer of wealth will be unprecedented in the history of civilization. Where are these funds going and where should they go? Should the emphasis be on averting climate change or adapting to climate change? Should the funds be used to fund infrastructure for megacities, to reforest the tropics, or for an assortment of worthy projects across the board?

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