60 Earth Hour / Vote Earth March 28 8:30 p.m.

I’ll finally be adding posts in April, including on TEDxUSC (the first independently-organized TED conference in the world), on the new Clean Economy Network, and on our upcoming program in Santa Cruz on EcoSentience, which, not coincidentally, falls on March 28, the day you can “vote Earth,” the real subject of this post:

If you aren’t participating in Earth Hour / Vote Earth (Vote for the Earth–your switch is your vote in the world’s first “global election”), please watch the clips below and consider taking part.  It may not have an effect on global warming, but it can do amazing things for shifting awareness.

Rethinking Green: How Information Can Replace Energy (Stewart Brand)

NextNow Collab is a charter member of LongNow Foundation. The following event announcement seems particularly relevant to our community (and it’s right in our backyard this time, an asset whose value cannot be overstated).

The premise makes intuitive sense to me, since I hold information as energy in~formation.

Stewart Brand speaks at U.C. Berkeley
March 16th, 02009 by Danielle Engelman

Stewart Brand will be speaking about Rethinking Green: How Can Information Replace Energy and Finesse the Biosphere? on Monday March 16, 02009 from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm.

This lecture is part of the Berkeley Center for New Media’s Art, Culture and Technology Colloquium.

This lecture is free, un-ticketed and seats are available on a first come first serve basis. Here is the location of the 250 seat Sibley Auditorium, Bechtel Engineering Center on the U.C. Berkeley campus.