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The Futures Room

Hosted by Sensible City

Now available in green: Time Travel! Whether you wish to get a feel for San Francisco in the year 2057, wrap your mind around green technology yet to come, or attend middle school in an off-the-grid, paperless classroom, the futures room promises a rocket-fuel-free, imaginative experience for all.

The Futures Room is constructed of an off-the-grid classroom technology suite, transported to West Coast Green and re-built by students at Redwood Middle School in Napa, CA, enabling a bicycle-powered technological learning experience (generator, computers, projector, interactive whiteboard and audience-response system) for all participants.

Here we focus on what comes next:

• Technologies on the brink of emersion
• Environmentally conscious youth coming into power
• Urban communities embracing Green

The Futures Room is constructed of an off-the-grid classroom technology suite, transported to West Coast Green and re-built by students at Redwood Middle School in Napa, CA, enabling a bicycle-powered technological learning experience (generator, computers, projector, interactive whiteboard and audience-response system) for all participants.

Thursday, September 20: The Future of Cities

Presented by: Urban Re:Vision

Let's talk about the future of our cities: green technology, transportation development, planning and architecture. Urban Re:Vision hosts today's leading visionaries, media experts and policymakers to discuss the future of our cities.

11:00am-12:00pm	Urban Re:Vision Museum Showcase Tour The Nation's Most Innovative Solutions for Urban Greening.
2:00-3:00pm	Panel: The Future of our Cities Moderator: Eric Corey Freed, Organic Architect
3:30-5:00pm	Urban Re:Vision Interactive Workshop Collaborative Workshop Where Attendees Develop Solutions: Re:Volt – Intelligent Energies For Urban Development Re:Route – New Thinking On Urban Transportation Re:Store – Green Innovation For A Healthy Urban Economy Re:Connect – Urban Planning For People And Place Re:Vision – Architecture For A Sustainable Urban Community
5:00-5:30pm	Open Discussion Carbon Neutral Cities: Conversation, Networking and Brainstorming

Friday, September 21: Emerging Green Technologies

Presented by: Green Technology Magazine

Think you know what technologies are just over the horizon? You might be surprised. Come discover new and emerging green technologies, their advancements and barriers to market, and learn about how you can participate in the green-tech revolution.

11:00am-12:00pm	Panel: Global Perspective on Emerging Green Technologies Moderator: Michael Kannelos, CNET
2:00-3:00pm	Using Foresight to Provoke Strategy and Innovation Bob Johansen, Institute for the Future, outlines new forecasts, various lenses of sustainability, and the links between sustainability and strategy.
3:30-5:30pm	Interactive Media Presentations and Brainstorming Sam White shares Solar Turbine Group's global initiative to bring solar technology constructed from car parts to developing nations. Steve Raney, of Personal Rapid Transit, describes his Suburban Silver Bullet transit system. Ray Freedell, of Promethean, Inc., gives an interactive, high-tech glimpse into the future of paperless curriculum and educational technology.

Saturday, September 22: Future Generations

Presented by: Promethean, Inc.

If our children are the future, how are we empowering them as planetary citizens? We've all heard the term: "think globally, act locally". Today we examine how this happens: in communities, classrooms, hearts and minds.

10:30am-12:00pm	Panel: Engaging Future Generations Moderator: Jim Daley, Editor in Chief, Edutopia Magazine
2:00-3:00pm	Kidpower: Past, Present and Future Redwood Middle School shares their story of developing an environmentally-anchored classroom economy built upon community responsibility, "eco-bucks" and off-the-grid kid-power using a "Mission to Mars" based curriculum.
3:30-4:00pm	Literacy for Environmental Justice: Living Classroom San Francisco's Greenest Classroom: Modeling off-grid technology in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunterspoint.
4:00-4:30pm	Hugging Generations Y and Z TreeHugger writer Kristin Underwood outlines TreeHugger's results: inspiring people around the globe to use the internet to get news on all things Green.