California has always been at the forefront of environmental leadership, from its elected officials to its everyday residents. Since its creation in 1975, CAPCOA and its members-leaders of all 35 local and regional air districts in California-have focused on ensuring this trend continues unabated, with enthusiastic drive and dedication toward cleaning the air and ensuring the residents of California have a healthy environment in which to live and thrive.
Today, more than ever before, we have all come to recognize that this can only be achieved if we push the envelope to develop and use better, cleaner technologies that address air pollution, global warming, and petroleum dependency. Meeting the challenges ahead will depend on increased research into alternatives to oil and conventional fuels and challenge the way we have traditionally worked.
CAPCOA is proud to host The Future is Green Conference & Expo on New and Emerging Clean Air Technologies and Innovations on September 14-16, 2008, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California. The Future is Green Conference & Expo is one more step toward achieving a cleaner, greener tomorrow and reducing our carbon footprint.
Monday's Opening Plenary Session features a short video by U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and presentations by State Senator Alan Lowenthal; U.S. EPA Region IX Administrator Wayne Nastri; Mary D. Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board; Fran Pavley, co-author of the landmark Assembly Bill 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act; and Lynda Ziegler, Senior Vice President of Customer Service at Southern California Edison. Our Monday luncheon keynote is presented by T. Boone Pickens, Chairman & CEO of BP Capital, who will discuss his new energy plan to achieve energy independence to clean the air and to reduce global warming.
Today's new and emerging technologies will be discussed by our ten expert panels featuring more than 60 esteemed speakers over two days and further highlighted in our exhibit, which includes more than 70 exhibitors and 30 vehicle displays.
Won't you please join as at The Future is Green and bring us that much closer to developing and commercializing clean air and low-carbon energy technologies? If we work together, we can achieve a cleaner, greener tomorrow and ensure for ourselves and future generations that The Future is Green!
Barbara Lee, CAPCOA President
The Future is Green
CAPCOA is proud to host The Future is Green Conference & Expo on New and Emerging Clean Air Technologies and Innovations on September 14-16, 2008, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California.
Four primary CAPCOA members have joined with CAPCOA to provide financial and in-kind support to ensure The Future is Green is the must-attend event of 2008. Your co-hosts are the South Coast Air Quality Management District, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, and Placer County Air Pollution Control District.
The Future is Green will convene at a unique time in history when government, businesses, and the public have become increasingly concerned about global warming and petroleum dependency arising from the heavy use of conventional technologies. With the passage in 2006 of Assembly Bill 32, California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, followed by Governor Schwarzenegger’s 2007 Executive Order establishing a Low Carbon Fuel Standard, California once again has taken a strong leadership role to combat climate change. Development and commercialization of clean air and low carbon energy technologies are essential if we are going to tackle these issues and ensure The Future is Green.
Pre-conference events on Sunday, September 14, 2008, will include a low-cost full-day workshop (fee includes lunch), presented in conjunction with the U.S. Small Business Administration, on how to develop a green technology business for budding entrepreneurs who might just have the next innovative clean air technology idea (click here for details); and a free half-day workshop on global warming, renewables, and environmental protection for teachers who are shaping our children and fostering our future engineers and leaders (click here for details). The Expo opens Sunday at noon and features more than 70 exhibitors and 30 vehicle displays. It is open at no cost to our conference and workshop attendees as well as the general public on Sunday. Sunday evening wraps up the day with a reception in The Expo for early conference attendee arrivals.
Our Opening Plenary Session and Luncheon Keynote on Monday 
are not to be missed! And the ten expert panels over Monday and Tuesday feature more than 60 esteemed speakers talking about “hot topics of today & tomorrow.” Monday evening also features a reception in The Expo to ensure our conference attendees are afforded ample opportunity to visit The Expo and see products and technologies first-hand as well as provide the opportunity for networking! The program is available here.
A special educational component will be hosted concurrently with general sessions. Hundreds of high school students focused on academics in the science fields will be attending special workshops to learn more about global warming and green solutions and visiting The Expo on either Monday or Tuesday (click here for details). CAPCOA presents this field trip of a lifetime opportunity to reach the youth of today and impact their tomorrows.
So don’t wait! Register online today at www.capcoagreen.com/registration/
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