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div align="center"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/wagoner-driving-volt-mule-to-congress/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/wagoner-money-doors.jpg" alt="" //abr //div After arriving at the first Senate hearing by private jet, GM's Rick Wagoner is looking to feign innovation and a commitment to frugality by driving a Chevy a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/volt"Volt/a prototype to Washington and past the camera crews awaiting his arrival. The obvious stunt meant to reverse public opinion in GM's bid for bailout cash will put Wagoner behind the wheel of the Volt prototype for just a fraction of the 355 mile journey. Good thing too, because without the a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/21/better-places-1-billion-electric-vehicle-grid-endorsed-by-bay/"infrastructure required /ato a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/22/gm-teams-with-utilities-to-develop-electric-car-charging-infrast/"support electric vehicles/a, Wagoner's Volt would only last about 40 miles on battery before the fuel burning engine kicked in to maintain enough charge to drive the powertrain. Instead, the GM exec will begin his journey from Detroit in a hybrid Malibu capable of just 24/32 MPG city/highway. We just hope that the Saturns and dilapidated Chevettes he sees abandoned along America's rust-belt provides the man with ample reminder of GM's previous failures to revolutionize from within. Oh, sorry Rick was that too mean?br /br /P.S. The car pictured above is a non-functional 2011 Volt prototype that will be parked in DC upon Wagoner's arrival.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20081203/BUSINESS01/81203081"Detroit Free Press/a]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/transportation/" rel="tag"Transportation/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/"GM chief to drive Chevy Volt in search of $18 billion handout/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:48:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/03/wagoner-driving-volt-mule-to-congress/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391049/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/gm-chief-to-drive-chevy-volt-in-search-of-18-billion-handout/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/jW7nNnd7wdGpupsKn1EGxhPmkTI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/jW7nNnd7wdGpupsKn1EGxhPmkTI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=6JQuG7Vt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=6JQuG7Vt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=QjbQ0Plw"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=QjbQ0Plw" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/nL-bUmLhq-k" height="1" width="1"/

After arriving at the first Senate hearing by private jet, GM's Rick Wagoner is looking to feign innovation and a commitment to frugality by driving a Chevy Volt prototype to Washington and past the camera crews awaiting his arrival. The obvious stunt meant to reverse public opinion in GM's bid for bailout cash will put Wagoner behind the wheel of the Volt prototype for just a fraction of the 355 mile journey. Good thing too, because without the infrastructure required to support electric vehicles, Wagoner's Volt would only last about 40 miles on battery before the fuel burning engine kicked in to maintain enough charge to drive the powertrain. Instead, the GM exec will begin his journey from Detroit in a hybrid Malibu capable of just 24/32 MPG city/highway. We just hope that the Saturns and dilapidated Chevettes he sees abandoned along America's rust-belt provides the man with ample reminder of GM's previous failures to revolutionize from within. Oh, sorry Rick was that too mean?

P.S. The car pictured above is a non-functional 2011 Volt prototype that will be parked in DC upon Wagoner's arrival.

[Via Detroit Free Press]

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div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"As a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/459963"President-Elect Barack Obama/a looks for ways to deal with a shattered economy and an ongoing war on terrorism, security experts are urging him to pay attention to something that has a big impact on both: The nation#39;s growing -- and fragile -- cyberinfrastructure./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Potential adversaries have increasingly turned to a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/337713"cyberespionage/a as a way to find a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/462477"weaknesses in networks/a run by the U.S. government and the nation#39;s a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/451294"critical infrastructure providers/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ Learn how to secure your systems with Roger Grimes#39; a href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/securityadviser/?source=fssr"Security Adviser blog/a and a href="http://www.infoworld.com/newsletter/subscribe.html?source=fssr"newsletter/a, both from InfoWorld. ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Meanwhile, retailers increasingly dependent on the Web for commerce have launched online transaction portals that rely on a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/412163"Web applications that are easily targeted/a by digital miscreants. Many of those features are increasingly accessible via popular social networking sites like a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/458070"Facebook/a ./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Realistically, most of the necessary improvements must be devised and deployed from within private companies and government agencies. But a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Barack+Obama"Obama/a is in a unique position to lead on this issue and inspire others to fix the security holes, experts say./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"With that in mind, a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/"CSOonline has compiled/a a five-point list of areas Obama should focus on, based on feedback from security pros./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong1. Secure the Web appsbr//strongWith more and more people doing their shopping online, attackers will continue to ramp up attacks against the Web applications customers use to make purchases. Companies that allow sensitive customer data to fall into sinister hands face a world of hurt in terms of reputation and future business, and so Obama should use his bully pulpit to demand better security./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Obama [and his IT security advisors] needs to focus on securing Web applications that have largely been ignored by previous administrations,quot; says Mandeep Khera, chief marketing officer for security vendor a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Cenzic+Inc."Cenzic/a . quot;With millions of hacking attempts on our government infrastructure every day and thousands of successful attacks against corporations through the Web site, government needs to step in and create stronger regulations to enforce the security of our Web sites.quot;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"strong2. Wipe the dust off of older regsbr//strongThat a security vendor would favor more regulation is of little surprise. But security regulations are very much on the minds of those polled -- and not the potential new regulations, either. Instead, some experts would prefer Obama put pressure on subordinates to revisit longer-standing regulations that are in need of a makeover./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Former Cisco/WebEx CSO Randolph Barr, now working in the security division of Redwood City, Calif.-based financial application provider Yodlee, is among those who believe the Federal Information Security Management Act ( a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.csoonline.com/is_fisma_compliance_for_state_local_governments_too"FISMA/a ) is outdated, for example./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;The regulatory requirements for DIACAP/FISMA 805, etc., are catered more towards systems and software and not updated to reflect the innovation of other companies when it comes to selling software as a service and cloud computing, making it very difficult for an organization to be successful in partnering with the government,quot; Barr says. quot;Some time should be taken to revisit these regulatory requirements.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Sharing Barr#39;s concern about FISMA is Krag Brotby, a security architect who has worked for Xerox, TransactPlus (a JP Morgan subsidiary) and the Singapore government. He says FISMA compliance is in a dismal state of affairs in critical agencies, and a lack of training is part of the problem./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;FISMA compliance remains poor in some of the critical agencies and, coupled with substandard personnel proficiency, would seem to pose an unreasonable level of risk to the country,quot; he says. quot;Pushing ahead with training and certification of government security personnel should take priority as well as mandating FISMA compliance.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong3. Demand better security trainingbr//strongBrotby#39;s concerns highlight another weakness on the minds of many security professionals -- training, or the lack of it. Brotby has encountered what he calls a quot;significant percentage of IA (information assurance) practitioners and managers in the government and armed forcesquot; that haven#39;t been adequately trained to provide a reasonable level of security./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Barr listed education as one of his big concerns, and hopes the Obama Administration will push for security to be emphasized from middle school to college and beyond./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;From the perspective of what is taught in college to what is taught down at the middle school to high school level, in my opinion we don#39;t have a lot of programs that teach individuals the history of security and what we should be doing to better protect ourselves,quot; he says./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Since kids are increasingly learning via computers and the Internet, an education on the dangers of cyberspace and ways to secure oneself should be a natural part of the lesson plan, he says./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong4. Build a great cyber wall (against China and others)br//strongAnother item of concern for security pros is the increased level of a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/337713/Nation_States_Espionage_and_Counterespionage"cyberespionage between companies and countries -- most notably activity from China/a . Barr wants the Obama Administration to revisit requirements for restricting U.S. companies with a presence in China and other countries./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;The concern cited in most cases [of cyberespionage] is stolen intellectual property and malware embedded in source code,quot; he says. quot;This is a danger regardless of where the code is developed, and cybersecurity should focus less on the geographic location of developed code and more on the controls in place to reduce the likelihood of a successful attack.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"In other words, focus on building a stronger wall around the sensitive data so that protection is assured regardless of where the bad guys are attacking from./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"strong5. Give someone control (and make them accountable)br//strongThe final -- and arguably most important -- item Obama should focus on is giving government security officials some real power and a tougher code of accountability to go with it./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"Security industry veteran a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/410513"Richard Stiennon/a made the point in a a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/34777"letter to Obama that ran in Network World/a , a sister publication of a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/CSO+Magazine"CSOonline/a ./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"The first of his 10 suggestions is to issue and executive order establishing responsibility for cybersecurity with quot;real negative repercussions for those who fail to prevent breaches.quot; For civilians this means being fired; for the military this means court marshal, demotion, and expulsion for serious security breaches, a target="_blank" href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/467864/subject/Richard+Stiennon"Stiennon/a wrote./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"quot;Do not allow the blame to be foisted off on contractors. The only way that security gets implemented is if someone#39;s job is on the line,quot; he continued. quot;This goes all the way to the top, of course. Whoever you appoint to replace the current assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications must understand that security breaches imply failure and those responsible will be replaced.quot;/pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"strongThe Official Obama Planbr//strongThe following is a list of the incoming Obama Administration#39;s cybersecurity goals, taken from a target="_blank" href="http://change.gov/agenda/homeland_security_agenda/"Change.gov/a , the official site of the President-Elect. Does it reflect some of the suggestions listed above? We welcome feedback in the comments section of this article./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Strengthen Federal Leadership on Cybersecurity: Declare the cyber infrastructure a strategic asset and establish the position of national cyberadvisor who will report directly to the president and will be responsible for coordinating federal agency efforts and development of national cyberpolicy./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Initiate a Safe Computing Ramp;D Effort and Harden our Nation#39;s Cyberinfrastructure: Support an initiative to develop next-generation secure computers and networking for national security applications. Work with industry and academia to develop and deploy a new generation of secure hardware and software for our critical cyberinfrastructure./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Protect the IT Infrastructure That Keeps America#39;s Economy Safe: Work with the private sector to establish tough new standards for cybersecurity and physical resilience./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Prevent Corporate Cyberespionage: Work with industry to develop the systems necessary to protect our nation#39;s trade secrets and our research and development. Innovations in software, engineering, pharmaceuticals and other fields are being stolen online from U.S. businesses at an alarming rate./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Develop a Cybercrime Strategy to Minimize the Opportunities for Criminal Profit: Shut down the mechanisms used to transmit criminal profits by shutting down untraceable Internet payment schemes. Initiate a grant and training program to provide federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies the tools they need to detect and prosecute cybercrime./pp page="3" class="ArticleBody"-- Mandate Standards for Securing Personal Data and Require Companies to Disclose Personal Information Data Breaches: Partner with industry and our citizens to secure personal data stored on government and private systems. 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Avec l’annonce d’un déploiement de voitures électriques à Hawaii, Better Place pense sauver, dans l’ordre, les îles volcaniques, les Etats-Unis et enfin la planète.

Le patron de Better Place, Shai Agassi, un ancien du logiciel de Silicon Valley, a annoncé hier avec Linda Lingle, gouverneur d’Hawaii, leurs plans futurs.

L’accord stipule que la société d’électricité Hawaiian Electric Company travaillera avec Better Place pour bâtir une infrastructure de transports, comprenant des stations de recharge et d’échange de batteries.

Les premières voitures électriques devraient fouler le sable des plages de Hawaii d’ici 18 mois, avec une disponibilité sur le marché de la grande consommation prévue en 2012. Les îles du Pacifique viennent ainsi rejoindre des pays comme Israël, le Danemark, l’Australie ou l’état de Californie dont la politique tend à favoriser les déploiements de voitures électriques.

Linda Lingle a déclaré toute excitée que cette annonce était un grand pas en avant vers l’indépendance énergétique de son pays. Hawaii s’est fixé le but d’atteindre 70% d’énergie propre consommée.

Shai Agassi pense que les prototypes de voitures électriques, dérivées des SUV Nissan Rogue, conviennent parfaitement à Hawaii qui dispose de sources d’énergies renouvelables importantes, comme le solaire, l’éolien pou les énergies marémotrice et géothermique. Il pense que ce sera un exemple pour les Etats-Unis.

Ben, bonne chance.

L’Inq
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Traduction et adaptation d’un article de Sylvie Barak pour INQ.

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Numerous efforts to forge a lasting peace agreement during the past five years have foundered while hundreds of thousands of people remain in refugee camps. Meanwhile, human rights and advocacy groups have added their voices to calls for Harun and other alleged war criminals on both sides to be prosecuted./ppBut Sudan is not a party to the ICC. It has so far ignored UN security council demands that it cooperate with the court and surrender Harun and his co-accused, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, an alleged Janjaweed leader also known as Ali Kushayb. /ppICC judges are currently considering a request by Moreno-Ocampo for an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity also relating to events in Darfur./ppSpeaking in his ministry's smart new offices in Khartoum, Harun said the ICC was in effect conducting a political vendetta against Sudan that had little or nothing to do with justice. /ppstrongRelaxed and confident/strong/ppThroughout the interview, Harun, a tall 43-year-old dressed in a smart charcoal suit and open-necked shirt, appeared mostly relaxed and confident. Occasionally his eyes flashed with anger as he discussed the accusations against him./pp"We believe the ICC has digressed from its main objective and become part of the international political conflict. It is another phase of international colonisation. It targets mainly the Africans. It reminds us of the 19th century when the white people were dominating here in Africa./pp"The main aim of the white people in Africa at that time, the British and the Europeans, was to disseminate their culture and their traditions. Under the flag of attractive slogans, so many things happened. Now there is a new imperial era but this time it is led by the United States and supported by the Europeans."/ppHarun, a trained lawyer from the Bargo tribe in western Sudan and a former judge, argued that UN security council resolution 1593 that referred Darfur to the ICC in 2005 was discriminatory because it exempted citizens of the US, which like Sudan is not a party to the ICC's founding treaty, from action by the court. For this reason, the ICC prosecutor was ignoring the "first principle" of equality before the law./pp"This is a discriminatory prosecution. It is also discriminatory because the ICC is targeting only African countries," Harun said. "Also, any serious investigation should begin on the ground, in theatre, in Darfur. And witnesses who are part of the problem should not be taken into consideration. They are not reliable sources."/ppSuggesting the ICC investigation was superfluous as well as politically motivated, Harun said a national investigation committee created by Bashir had examined many senior officials over their roles in Darfur. "I was one of them. I gave answers to all their questions. No action was taken. There was no evidence, so there was no reason to take action."/ppHarun added that any future move to indict Bashir, or any backroom deal in which he himself might be handed over to the ICC in return for Bashir being granted immunity, would only prove his contention that the ICC proceedings were political. In such circumstances, he said, he would never voluntarily surrender himself. And nor was he prepared to meet Moreno-Ocampo if the latter came to Khartoum./pp"The prosecutor has brought his profession into disrespect. He is not welcome in Sudan ... He should be replaced. This is what we are requesting. I add my voice to the voices of the international society because he is insulting the profession of justice and insulting African countries."/ppAsked to explain his actions in Darfur in 2003-4, Harun said he had faced an internal, essentially local conflict between Darfurian tribes that quickly transformed into a political conflict with encouragement from forces outside the province./ppRebel leaders Minni Minnawi, Abd al-Wahid Muhammad Nur, and Abdallah Abbakar initially called themselves the Darfur Liberation Movement, he said. But this later became the Sudan Liberation Movement as external actors got involved./ppThe Darfur rebellion, also fuelled by Khalil Ibrahim's opposition-backed Justice and Equality Movement, threatened the stability of the Sudanese state as a whole, for example by undermining the 2005 North-South comprehensive peace agreement which was then nearing fruition, Harun said. The government had no choice but to act./pp"The policy and tactics of the government, like any other government when things like this are happening, is to begin by mobilising./pp"We have a security reserve force - the Popular Defence Forces - to respond to those attacks, a paramilitary force. Some people call the PDF by different names, some call it militia, others are calling it Janjaweed. But it is a formal force and it works under the directions of the army."/ppUnable to match pro-government forces militarily, the rebels changed tactics and created a humanitarian crisis in Darfur to attract international attention and intervention, he said./ppstrongRebels blamed/strong/pp"They started putting pressure on civilians to move out of villages, they killed their children, women they abducted, they destroyed the infrastructure and means of people's livelihood, and caused the mass migration of people into refugee camps."/ppIn other words, he suggested, it was the rebel groups that were responsible for the civilian massacres, atrocities and mass displacements in 2003-4, not himself or the government. Sudan's government in any case disputes the UN's casualty estimates, claiming only about 10,000 people died./ppReports that he boasted in a 2003 speech that he had "the power and the authority to kill or forgive whoever in Darfur" were fabricated, Harun added. And he insisted his 2004 description of the rebels as "fish" who needed the "water" of the villages to survive (thereby allegedly justifying the destruction of villages) was a distortion of his meaning./ppPeople in Darfur knew the truth, he said, which was why he was still welcome there. "I move freely in Darfur. I have strong support. I am popular in Darfur because they know who protected them."/ppLeaning back in a well-padded armchair with a broad smile on his face, Harun said he was a religious man who had done nothing to offend against God. But he did not claim to have a close relationship with the Almighty./pp"I am not like George Bush. I do not talk to God. In Islam, we believe Muhammad was the last prophet. Since Muhammad, no one can talk to God."/ppAs for the future, he suggested relations between Sudan and the international community would deteriorate further if the ICC persisted with its present course. A total breach with the UN was not out of the question./ppHarun's openly defiant stance underlines how difficult it may be to bring justice to Darfur while avoiding an open confrontation with Sudan and, at one remove, its African Union and Arab League allies. If allowed to continue unanswered, it also threatens the credibility of the ICC./pp"We don't expect anything good from the ICC. But for every action, there will be a response," Harun said. "The ICC will do whatever they want. We will wait and see what they do. We will defend our country as best we can to the best of our ability, according to our opinions."/ph2Backstory/h2pThe stronginternational criminal court/strong was established in strong2002/strong as an independent tribunal to try individuals responsible for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. It was designed to complement national legal systems, stepping in when a country appeared unable or unwilling to prosecute. More than 100 countries are members./ppAtrocities committed by rebel commanders in the strongDemocratic Republic of the Congo/strong and by the Lord's Resistance Army in strongUganda/strong prompted the opening of the first cases in 2004. Investigations into abuses in Sudan's strongDarfur/strong region began a year later. /ppIn February 2007, ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo announced that Sudanese minister strongAhmad Harun/strong and Janjaweed militia leader strongAli Kushayb/strong were suspected of committing crimes against humanity. The indictment and warrant for their arrests, dated April 2007, specifically accuses Harun of targeting the ethnic African Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit tribes by employing elements of the Sudanese armed forces and Popular Defence Forces paramilitaries, and by "recruiting, arming and funding" irregular Arab militias known as strongJanjaweed/strong/ppAccording to the court, pro-government forces over which Harun exercised command launched a campaign of terror that included "murders of civilians, rapes and outrages upon the personal dignity of women and girls ... and destruction of property and pillaging of towns"./ppThe indictment claims that the campaign was of a "strongsystematic/strong strongand/strong strongwidespread/strong strongnature/strong" conducted "over an extensive period of time... in furtherance of a state or organisational policy consisting in attacking the civilian population"./ppIt goes on: "Ahmad Harun intentionally contributed to the commission of the above-mentioned crimes ... 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http//www.EmploymentCrossing.com Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar and Congressman Jim Oberstar are making a push to create more jobs in the North Star State. Senator Klobuchar is on a “Main Street Jobs Tour” in Minnesota this week. Her focus is on creating jobs related to infrastructure and renewable energy. Klobuchar plans to visit communities in 17 counties. Klobuchar is meeting with business leaders, especially those in energy or infrastructure-related businesses, as well as area economic development agencies, elected officials and workers to discuss how to move the economy forward and create jobs in Minnesota. This week Congressman Oberstar held a news conference to announce his economic plan to use $218 million dollars for road and bridge projects. Minnesota's unemployment rate rose to 6% in October, compared with 5.9% in September.

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Two of the biggest challenges facing our society — economy and climate change — are so intertwined that it is virtually impossible to solve one problem without fixing the other. To eternal optimists, these challenges also offer opportunity and we are seeing that with major investment interest in alternative energies from folks as diverse as energy baron T. Boone Pickens to former Vice President Al Gore.

The cleantech movement is vital for our little corner of the world. If today’s broadband pipes are the 21st century highway system, electric power is the engine that keeps the traffic moving. From expensive data centers and large central offices, to routers and switches and all the way down to our iPhones — every single device depends on electricity. If we want our technical nirvana, we need to figure out ways to reduce our energy footprint.

We will explore some of these themes at Green:Net our one-day conference that will be held in San Francisco’s Golden Gateway Club on March 24, 2009. At the conference we will look at how software, the web and communication networks will help companies shape the future of our electrical system, deliver transportation infrastructure, create social movements and help reduce carbon emissions.

A team led by Katie Fehrenbacher, editor of our Earth2Tech blog, has helped put together the agenda for this conference. Here are some of the topics we are going to be exploring at the conference:

• Dotcom to Greenboom
• The Green Web Effect
• Green Data Centers: Low Carbon Diets for Your Data Center
• The New Networked Car
• Power Grid 2.0

Among our scheduled keynote speakers are:

• Bob Metcalfe, Inventor of Ethernet, General Partner at Polaris Venture Partners and proponent of Enernet, the energy network.
• Rob Bernard, Microsoft’s Chief Environmental Strategist

Other confirmed speakers include:

• Saul Griffith – Co-founder of Makani Power, Squid Labs, Potenco and Wattzon, and MacArthur Prize Winner
• Jonathan Koomey – Professor, UC Berkley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Dr. Albert Esser – VP of Data Center Infrastructure Group, Dell
• Rob Aldrich – Principal, Energy Efficient Solutions, Cisco
• Bill Vogel – CEO, Trilliant
• Andy Tang – Director of Smart Web, PG&E
• Sunil Sharan – Smart Grid Director, GE
• Erin Carlson – Director, Yahoo for Good, Yahoo!

In days to come we will be updating the list of speakers and will update the conference web site accordingly. The event will also include a startup launch session, which will introduce 10 up and coming startups that are leveraging digital technologies for green aims. Speakers from companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, Cisco, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Foundation Capital, JP Morgan, GE and Pacific Gas & Electric have also been added to the event schedule.

You can register for the conference at the conference web site, which also details information about schedule, speakers and the venue itself.

See you in San Francisco in March 2009!