Autodesk is hosting an executive forum on the role of technology in sustainable design in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme and the Natural World Museum at the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium.  Carl Bass, Autodesk CEO,  will participate in a symposium panel called Creative Approaches to Climate Change.   To identify innovative approaches to the environmental predicament humanity is faced with, many fields and industries are rethinking and redesigning their processes and products to reduce negative impacts on the planet.  In this discussion the panelists will elucidate the ways we can become a part of the global environmental solution, both individually and collectively, and talk about unique and innovative
approaches which offer new ways of lessening human impacts affecting
climate change.

Symposium Panelists
Carl Bass, President & CEO, Autodesk, Inc.
David Guggenheim, President, I Planet I Ocean
Subhankar Banerjee, Artist, Educator & Activist
Peter Matthiessen, Writer & Environmental Activist
Tamas Marghescu, IUCN Regional Director for Europe
Haroldo Castro, Conservation Journalist & Filmmaker (Moderator)

October 5, 2007 – 11:00am
Hall M,
BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23
Brussels, Belgium 1000

By the way Al Gore was in Victoria B.C. last Friday, the day after FOSS4G wrapped up the most successful conference to date at the Victoria Conference Centre, where he was the keynote speaker over the lunch hour.  According to the Globe and Mail, he urged people “to become even more active on this issue. It is the defining crisis of our time and the greatest opportunity to get our act together, globally, and we’re going to do it.”  He was introduced by B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, who has promised to cut the province’s greenhouse gas emissions by at least 33 per cent below current levels by 2020.