Next Agenda Challenge Underway: The US CAN Get All Its Electricity From Clean Energy by 2020. Turbo-charging the effort.

Hundreds of Experts & Innovators Gather at Next Agenda Summit in San Francisco
to Launch NewCollaborative Process
SAN FRANCISCO--(Business Wire)--
On Thursday, September 17, two hundred of the nation`s leading experts and
innovators on Clean Energy and Transformative Change will gather to kick off a
six-month process aimed at creating a new set of solutions to get US electricity
completely off carbon-based energy by year 2020. The gathering is hosted by Next
Agenda, Inc. at the Golden Gate Club in the San Francisco Presidio.

Next Agenda is a San Francisco start-up with a highly praised media and web
based collaborative system for solving challenges facing the world. The Next
Agenda process has been likened to a 21st century constitutional convention.

Peter Leyden, Next Agenda Founder and CEO, discussed the Clean Energy Challenge.
"We have a problem that must be solved. Old systems are not getting it done, so
Next Agenda has created a process through which many thousands of our most
creative thinkers will leverage new technology to develop a real path to solving
this critical challenge. We are bringing together the best minds we can find
outside Washington to kick off the process. Our group is not bound by ties to
any viewpoint or process other than a passion for problem solving and the
knowledge that we can`t wait any longer - time is running out!"

Joining Next Agenda at the kick-off will be serial entrepreneur and MacArthur
Fellow Saul Griffith, Gillian Caldwell of 1Sky, Brian Sager of Nanosolar, Sunil
Paul of Spring Ventures and Cristina Archer of Stanford , among many others. The
group will participate in a day-long facilitated meeting that will kick-off a 6
month collaborative process designed to generate a wide range of solutions. Next
Agenda will video all interaction at the Presidio event and integrate that video
with more online coverage, to bring the discussion to a much wider group of
thinkers, who can then step into the collaboration via the web.

Next Agenda is filming its events in HD and will also develop television
programming for distribution next year. Everything will be available at Next
Agenda`s website later this fall.

Next Agenda, Inc.
Jim Kiles, 415-317-2956
jim@NextAgenda.com

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