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Hear what we’re learning from Nature about addressing climate instability at the world’s first conference on Biomimicry’s Climate Change Solutions, hosted by The Biomimicry Institute (www.biomimicryinstitute.org) and Bioneers (www.bioneers.org).  

Register at www.bioneers.org/node/2617

WHEN:             Oct. 20^th, 2008

WHERE:           Marin County, California

WHO:              Keynote addresses will be given by David Orr and   Janine Benyus. The day’s topics and other presenters include:

Bio-Inspired Energy Efficiency and Green Building

¨      Jay Harman (CEO, PAX Scientific)

¨      Jason McLennan (CEO, Living Building Challenge)

¨      Stephen Dewar (VP Business Affairs and Director of R&D, WhalePower, Inc.)

Bio-Inspired Carbon Fixation

¨      Dr. Gillian Bond (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)

¨      Mike Trachtenberg (CEO, Carbozyme, Inc.)

¨      Charles Hamilton (President, Novomer, Inc.)

Bio-Inspired Solar

¨      Dr. Ken Sauer (Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

¨      Dan Williams (Executive VP Product and Business Development, Konarka)

¨      Dr. John C. Warner (President and CEO, Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry)

Bio-Inspired Sustainable Biofuels

¨      Dr. Falk Warnecke (Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute)

¨      Dr. Clarence Lehman (University of Minnesota)

¨      Danny Day (President, Eprida)