Green Energy Summit 2009 : Clean Technology, Renewable Energy andSustainability

World Leaders Gather at Green Energy Summit 2009 to Plug Bailout
Scenarios
Clean Technology, Renewable Energy, and Sustainability as Sound
Engines for Economic Growth

BANGALORE, November 14, 2008 -- Don't wait for a bailout. There is
none. This deepening understanding is bringing together leading green
energy experts, heads of state, top government officials, heads of
large international organisations, policy makers, sustainability
experts, environmentalists and global investors at Green Energy Summit
2009 (GES 2009), March 4-7, 2009 to be held at the Palace Grounds,
Bangalore, India.

Going green is both a corporate advantage and an opportunity for
humanity to enable change. GES 2009 (www.greenenergysummit.com) will
bring together the government, civil society and private business
leaders in a bid to develop and drive new initiatives, provide
insights, showcase sustainable product development and green business
opportunities, and facilitate interaction between entities from all
over the world and India. The summit will also address policy options
and practical applications that have proven successful in ramping up
development of environmentally and economically sound solutions that
truly benefit all stakeholders.

At GES 2009, participants can:

- Tune in to four focus areas - Green Power, Green Buildings, Green
Fuels & Transportation, Green IT.
- Discuss solutions to some of humanity's most compelling issues:
energy security, climate change, renewable sources of energy &
sustainable human development.
- Unlock sales opportunities in India: must-attend for International
companies interested in meeting Indian buyers, partners and
representatives.
- Find your match and shortlist potential business partners: the GES
concierge will work away at your shortlist and arrange up to 6 one-on-
one appointments.
- Expertise, advice and strategy: benefit from the expertise,
credibility and mandates of a powerhouse team of influential RE and
clean technology experts.

SPEAKERS AT GES 2009

“GES 2009 will be a wholly interactive event with accent on the
application of renewable energy and clean technologies in green power,
green buildings, green fuels and transportation and green IT. The
program will comprise high-level keynote sessions, expert case studies
on specific themes, awards function, networking dinner and guided
tours of green energy installations”, says Dr. Arcot Ramachandran,
chairperson of the organising team.

Speakers include Dr. Hermann Scheer (Member, German Parliament;
President Eurosolar; General Chairman, WCRE), H.E. Corrado Clini
(Director General, Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea, Italy &
Chair, G8 Global Bioenergy Partnership), Dr. Mohamed T. El-Ashry
(Chair, REN21), Prof. Arthouros Zervos (Chairman, GWEC), Dr. R.K.
Pachauri (Chairman, IPCC), Dr. Dan Arvizu (Director, NREL), Dr.
Jamshed J. Irani (Director, TATA Sons Limited and Chairman, Tata
Quality Management Services), Michael T. Eckhart (President, ACORE &
Co-chairman, WCRE), Dr. Marianne Osterkorn (International Director,
REEEP), Dr. Yogi Goswami (Former President, ISES), Dr. Pramod Deo
(Chairman, CERC), R Seshasayee (MD, Ashok Leyland), Nitin Desai
(Special Adviser to the Secretary General for the World Summit on the
Information Society), David Bohigian (Assistant Secretary, U.S.
Department of Commerce), Dipal C Barua (MD, Grameen Shakti), Dr Ajay
Mathur (Director General, BEE), Dr. Jose Achache (Director, Group on
Earth Observations) and several other important stakeholders.

ASIA'S LARGEST EXHIBITION FOR RENEWABLE AND CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES

Green Energy Expo is spread out over 10,000 sqm and will enjoy a
footfall of more than 100,000. The exhibitions will have separate
pavilions for Green Power, Green IT, Green Buildings, Green Fuels &
Transport, Sustainable Brand Showcase, Nano in Sustainability and
Biotech in Sustainability. Featuring Indian and International
exhibitors from the US, Europe, Canada, Middle East and Asia Pacific,
meet manufacturers, builders, vendors and investors of unconventional
energy technology (solar, wind, biofuel, thermal), enterprise hardware
& software technology vendors, semiconductor companies, financial
institutions, venture capitalists and government bodies.

The summit is supported by the Department of Science and Technology,
Government of India; EUROSOLAR, World Council for Renewable Energy
(WCRE); Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), Bureau of
Energy Efficiency (BEE), Confederation of Real Estate Developer's
Associations of India (CREDAI) and Karnataka Renewable Energy Ltd.
(KREDL).

SPONSOR GES 2009 AND JOIN THE WINNER'S CIRCLE

“Climate change and sustainability strategies, renewable, green and
clean technologies are as important for our planet as was perhaps
financial jurisprudence to the current economic downturn. When the
chips are down, customers and prospects will always look up to brands
and businesses that are sustainable, conservative, and willing to
assume corporate social responsibility for a cleaner future,” says
Dilip Thomas, Steering Committee Member/Program Chair & CEO of
Saltmarch Media, the organizers of GES 2009.

If you have a sustainable brand, product, or service, your presence as
a sponsor at GES 2009 sends out the right signals to your various
marketing initiatives including customer touch points, CSR and
branding, besides demonstrating clear commitment towards a clean,
green and sustainable planet. GES 2009 is the world-class forum for
varied stakeholders from the Solar, Wind, Biomass, IT, Transport,
Construction, Aviation, Nanotechnology, and Biotechnology, to showcase
your brand, propagate your leadership message, and unlock sales
opportunities.

About Saltmarch Media

GES 2009 is conceived and organised by Saltmarch Media in association
with the Renewable Energy Action Forum (REAF) -- like-minded bodies
that believe passionately in the role of Renewable Energy Technologies
(RETs) in national development, reducing our dependency on fuel
imports and protection of the environment.

The organising committee is chaired by Dr. Arcot Ramachandran
(Chairman TERI Governing Council, Former Under Secretary General UN,
and Secretary, DST). Committee members include Dr. J Gururaja (Former
Sr Adviser, United Nations and Adviser, MNRE, GoI), Dr. V
Balasubramanian (Former Additional Chief Secretary, GoK), Dilip Thomas
(Chairman & CEO, Saltmarch), A K Vora (Former MD, Tata BP Solar India,
K Jairaj (Principal Secretary, Energy, GoK), Indu Britto (Group
Publisher, Saltmarch Media), Shri. M N Vidyashankar (Ex-officio
Principal Secretary, Govt. of Karnataka), K Subramanya, CEO, Tata BP
Solar India Limited, Dr. Bhaktavatsalam (Former Chairman, IREDA, GoI),
and Dr. Harish Hande – Founder & CEO, SELCO India.

For more information on GES contact the GES Hotline:
Mobile: +91 99015 08099, Tel: +91 80 4005 1000
Email:

Totally avoiding a repeat of the West's failed industrial revolution/
transport/housing/agricultural/energy/distribution/pricing policies
based on rigid hierarchical and monopolistic controls is in the
interests of all. But only if it finally brings education, equality
and bottom-up democracy to all. Imitation of the West's damaging past
behaviours is in nobody's interest. The developing world is still
recovering from past empire building and the corruption that entailed
to keep the wealth and ownership of resources in the hands of a
corrupt few. The present leaders learned their dirty tricks from our
worst possible examples.

The ability to provide energy, food, housing, education and local
democratic organisation to any area of the globe regardless of access
to or vicinity to major centres is greatly to be encouraged. If only
to end the megacity slums form continuing to grow where there is
nothing to live on at home out in the countryside. Life is not about
over-consumption of Chinese slave-made goods. It is more about the
quality of life for the majority instead of the few. Peace and
security of shelter, energy supplies, food and useful employment
benefits everybody. Instead of throwing up targets for jealousy and
crime. The politicians have miserably failed to provide any of these
desirable qualities for life anywhere on the globe. Inequality always
leads to crime. Private ownership of vital resources, agriculture and
energy supply have failed to provide security of the most basic
survival needs for most of the occupants of our planet including the
West. It has placed the power remotely and only wielded in the
interests of those at the very top of the pyramid. Inter-nation
aggression can only get worse as resources become depleted. Mental ill-
health, depression, drug, alcohol and self abuse are rife and getting
worse by the day in the "developed" world. Is this what we have to
look forwards to in the future?

Architects have miserably failed to provide affordable and comfortable
accommodation for anybody but a few wealthy clients. They use their
exclusive training to make uncomfortably hot and cold structures with
massive energy demands. Or ridiculously expensive low-energy
properties completely out of reach of all but the wealthy. This obtuse
behaviour is mirrored in the foolishly complex rules for house
building and repair which places the skills only in the hands of a few
very expensive tradesmen who build out of ridiculously expensive and
potentially toxic materials. Housing globally has become exclusive and
wasteful with a vast backlog of older properties which can never be
brought up to reasonable standards of energy demand or all-season
comfort. Copying western building behaviour (as seems to be happening
worldwide for those who can afford it) is a dangerous cul de sac to
ever increasing energy demands and greater discomfort. Building
orientation and fenestration is often completely ignored even today
with consequent high heating and cooling energy demands and serious
discomfort for the occupants. The ever expanding suburbs and remote
shopping centres have killed local transport and local shopping/
services facilities by concentrating them only where there is maximum
foot traffic thanks to vast and wasteful heat island car parks devoid
of shade, shelter and having serious local drainage/flooding problems.
This habit denies access to shopping facilities for large numbers of
those without private transport for their most basic needs forcing the
elderly into homes and hospitals instead of offering them independence
to enjoy their retirement.

Present energy use is incredibly wasteful even when wind power is
providing local production and distribution. The excess wind energy is
presently dumped onto the international grids at well below below cost
in Northern Europe. This could be safely and easily stored in low
temperature floor heating mats overnight and in winter. No need to
wait until electric cars are re-invented or developed to charge up
overnight on the excess/new wind energy capacity. That will take too
long and inevitably delay wind energy capacity improvements. Floor mat
resistance heating would provide improved comfort for all right now.
Without the need for new cable distribution methods or any
modification to the wiring in the house or office. Simply plug a
suitably-sized low temperature heating mat into the nearest wall
socket. It would require that the wind power and heating mats were
charged for at low cost to the consumer to ensure a large take-up for
maximum energy efficiency. But then isn't profit a dirty world where
energy distribution is concerned in a CO2 rich world? It hasn't worked
in the past. Far cheaper than building nuclear power stations in
remote areas with all the losses/waste and security issues that this
involves. Or dumping power at below cost onto other nation's grids
when they are already building or planning to expand their own wind
power capacity.

I don't think this has anything to do with astronomy but then so
little on here is these days. :-)

On Nov 20, 11:55*am, "Chris.B" wrote:

Mental ill- health, depression, drug, alcohol and self abuse are rife and getting
worse by the day in the "developed" world. Is this what we have to
look forwards to in the future?

Sounds like a lot of good business opportunities to me (private rehab
centers and courses etc.) :-)

The ever expanding suburbs and remote
shopping centres have killed local transport and local shopping/
services facilities by concentrating them only where there is maximum
foot traffic thanks to vast and wasteful heat island car parks devoid
of shade, shelter and having serious local drainage/flooding problems.

Ya, agreed. Mind you, all shops are a waste of energy (they run
heating, pay asshats etc. all day long, just in case someone wants to
buy something. Stupid, just stupid. Far better to buy online and
have it delivered in their biodiesel trucks.

This habit denies access to shopping facilities for large numbers of
those without private transport for their most basic needs forcing the
elderly into homes and hospitals instead of offering them independence
to enjoy their retirement.

They could keep their independence by purchasing everything online. I
have everything delivered -- the delivery cost is offset by not
needing a car, so I save big. No need for car parks, no bags, no
shops with heating/lighting requirements etc. so environment saves
big, too.

This could be safely and easily stored in low
temperature floor heating mats overnight and in winter.
It would require that the wind power and heating mats were
charged for at low cost to the consumer to ensure a large take-up for
maximum energy efficiency.

Don't you have electric storage heaters and "Economy 7" tariffs in
Denmark?

Linus Das:
Ya, agreed. Mind you, all shops are a waste of energy (they run
heating, pay asshats etc. all day long, just in case someone wants to
buy something. Stupid, just stupid. Far better to buy online and
have it delivered in their biodiesel trucks.

Retailing employs a lot of people. Do you have a plan for alternate
employment?

I prefer the idea of bulldozing the malls and turning them into green
space. Bring the cities back to life by moving business back downtown.
That could have the effect of causing people to live closer to where
they work, reducing suburban and exurban sprawl, and saving energy.

Davoud

--
Sell GM for scrap metal. The country will recover and be better in the long run
without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt com

On Nov 29, 4:03*am, Davoud wrote:
Linus Das:

Ya, agreed. *Mind you, all shops are a waste of energy (they run
heating, pay asshats etc. all day long, just in case someone wants to
buy something. *Stupid, just stupid. *Far better to buy online and
have it delivered in their biodiesel trucks.

Retailing employs a lot of people. Do you have a plan for alternate
employment?

I prefer the idea of bulldozing the malls and turning them into green
space. Bring the cities back to life by moving business back downtown.
That could have the effect of causing people to live closer to where
they work, reducing suburban and exurban sprawl, and saving energy.

Sell GM for scrap metal. The country will recover and be better in the long run
without an anti-technology lobby to drag us down.

I find myself largely in agreement with much of this. Somewhere along
the way, the chain store's race for maximum profit has denied the
customer the exquisite pleasures of acquisition. The relationship
between expenditure and the value of the item purchased is now so
distorted that it may never be recovered thanks to Western-labelled,
Chinese-made goods. The specialist shops once provided a full service.
No higher calling is possible in life than to be an expert in
something which one could actually buy in the high street. We it was
wedded to the social skills and confidence required to sell quality
products to a wide customer base this was to have real social status.
Hypermarkets staffed by sullen teenagers and social misfits has
destroyed the contract between customer and service provider. The
butcher, the baker and the grocer once provided important centres of
social contact, information exchange and free therapy for all. From
timid child on an errand to the impoverished pensioner wbo needed a
smile and the warmth of a simple recognition.

The supermarket alienates all, degrades relationships between the
producer and the customer and denies the customer any social exchange.
There is no time at the checkout for the lonely and elderly to
exchange more than a two words with a disinterested social vegetable.
The customer is pressed like mince through the system by the queue
waiting to get back to the warmth of their cars. The supermarket is a
social evil perpetrated on an innocent public which has been denied
any choice in most localities. The vibrant villages and small towns of
Europe have been largely ruined by the supermarket. Competition and
high rents mean that anything of quality is pushed out to be replaced
by a single shelf offering poor quality and an abysmal choice in a
tawdry multi-purpose chain store. Identikit shopping "centres" spread
across the Western world are all staffed by bored adolescents with
zero social skills. And, for god's sake don't ever get in the way of
the staff!

On Nov 29, 3:03*am, Davoud wrote:

Linus Das:

Ya, agreed. *Mind you, all shops are a waste of energy (they run
heating, pay asshats etc. all day long, just in case someone wants to
buy something. *Stupid, just stupid. *Far better to buy online and
have it delivered in their biodiesel trucks.

Retailing employs a lot of people. Do you have a plan for alternate
employment?

Green space requires people to manage its growth...

I prefer the idea of bulldozing the malls and turning them into green
space. Bring the cities back to life by moving business back downtown.
That could have the effect of causing people to live closer to where
they work, reducing suburban and exurban sprawl, and saving energy.

Maybe, but longer-term the cities could be replaced by green space,
just like the malls (cities sound great in theory, but in practice,
they breed inequality, violence, and are vulnerable to terrorist
attacks). There has to be a better solution.