Last weekend, I went to a conference on Global Ecology and Information Technology at the Golden Gate Club at the Presidio in San Francisco. The conference started on Friday afternoon about 3 PM and finished up about 7 or so Sunday evening. The conference was significant for me in that I went feeling fairly certain that I wouldn't exactly fit in. My credentials as an environmental activist are sorely lacking and I'm just not in the same league technologically with the professional dot com folks. Conceptually, I was intrigued by the bringing together of these two orientations in one conference. As I looked at the agenda for the conference and saw such workshop/panels as "Cyberspace as a Meta-Evolutive Step" and "Surfing the Global Brain" and "Promises Ahead: Humanity's Journey Toward a Culture of Meaning" and "Consciousness - The Last Frontier" and "Slip-sliding Between the Virtual and the Real: Re-presenting Nature in Immersive VR Environments" I wondered if I should stop off at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park for a twelve pack of acid. I didn't.
    Some of the things I saw and listend to:

Bruce Sterling's Keynote
Duane Elgin's (the Voluntary Simplicity Guy) Optimism
Peter Russell Makes My Brain Hurt
Char Davies pokes men with their own instruments
The Independent Media Center and the Power of the Internet for Activists
Julia Butterfly Hill Again
Deifying the Internet - Pesce, Levy et al
Thank the Goddess for Steve Talbot, Melissa Nelson and JP
The Great Divide
Pretty Pictures