California has always been at the forefront of environmental leadership, from its elected officials to its everyday residents. Since its creation in 1975, CAPCOA and its members-leaders of all 35 local and regional air districts in California-have focused on ensuring this trend continues unabated, with enthusiastic drive and dedication toward cleaning the air and ensuring the residents of California have a healthy environment in which to live and thrive.
Today, more than ever before, we have all come to recognize that this can only be achieved if we push the envelope to develop and use better, cleaner technologies that address air pollution, global warming, and petroleum dependency. Meeting the challenges ahead will depend on increased research into alternatives to oil and conventional fuels and challenge the way we have traditionally worked.
CAPCOA is proud to host The Future is Green Conference & Expo on New and Emerging Clean Air Technologies and Innovations on September 14-16, 2008, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center in Long Beach, California. The Future is Green Conference & Expo is one more step toward achieving a cleaner, greener tomorrow and reducing our carbon footprint.
Monday's Opening Plenary Session features a short video by U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and presentations by State Senator Alan Lowenthal; U.S. EPA Region IX Administrator Wayne Nastri; Mary D. Nichols, Chair of the California Air Resources Board; Fran Pavley, co-author of the landmark Assembly Bill 32, California's Global Warming Solutions Act; and Lynda Ziegler, Senior Vice President of Customer Service at Southern California Edison. Our Monday luncheon keynote is presented by T. Boone Pickens, Chairman & CEO of BP Capital, who will discuss his new energy plan to achieve energy independence to clean the air and to reduce global warming.
Today's new and emerging technologies will be discussed by our ten expert panels featuring more than 60 esteemed speakers over two days and further highlighted in our exhibit, which includes more than 70 exhibitors and 30 vehicle displays.
Won't you please join as at The Future is Green and bring us that much closer to developing and commercializing clean air and low-carbon energy technologies? If we work together, we can achieve a cleaner, greener tomorrow and ensure for ourselves and future generations that The Future is Green!
Barbara Lee, CAPCOA President
Public
FOR THE PUBLIC: The public is invited to visit the Expo free on Sunday, September 14, 2008, from Noon to 5:30pm! “Win an electric lawn mower! Enter our door prize drawing for a chance to win one of three electric lawn mowers, provided courtesy of Neuton Power.”
To view or download the current floor plan for The Future is Green Expo, please click here.
The Future is Green’s Expo features more than 80 exhibitors and 30 vehicle displays. Some of the anticipated vehicles and equipment for display in The Expo include:
■ 2010 Emission Compliant Dodge Ram Retrofitted with JM’s Diesel Particulate Filter/NAC Emission Control System
■ 77-Passenger Full-Size Diesel Plug-In Hybrid School Bus
■ A123 Hymotion™ PHEV Prius
■ Autocar Port Drayage Truck with CNG ISLG Engine
■ Capacity TJ9000 NG Yard Tractor with Cummins ISLG 250 HP Engine
■ Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell
■ Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid Sedan
■ Class 8 Truck Cab Retrofitted with JM’s Selective Catalytic Reduction Technology System
■ CNG F250 Pickup
■ CNG Honda Civic
■ Daimler Plug-In Hybrid Sprinter Van
■ Doosan B50X 10,000 LB Pneumatic Electric Forklift, Full AC Control with Virtually Maintenance Free Oil Cooled Disc Brakes
■ FCX Clarity, a hydrogen fuel cell light-duty sedan
■ Full-Size CNG Tymco Street Sweeper
■ Heavy-Duty CNG Truck
■ Heavy-Duty Diesel Trucks Retrofitted with Level 3 PM Device
■ Hybrid Electric City Delivery Van
■ Hybrid Electric Utility Bucket Truck
■ Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle
■ Linde Direct-Injection Hydrogen Combustion Engine Forklift
■ Linde P250 Fuel Cell Drive Tow Tractor
■ LNG Yard Hustler
■ Medium-Duty Diesel Hybrid Utility Bucket Truck
■ Mercedes Benz Hydrogen Vehicle
■ Natural Gas Lincoln Town Car
■ Westport ISX G & LNG System - Kenworth T800
■ Plug-In Toyota Prius
■ Sterling Setback 113’ LNG Tractor Powered by ISLG from Cummins Westport
■ Toyota Hybrid Prius, a pack car from the Long Beach Grand Prix
■ Advanced Maritime Emissions Control System Model
■ Advanced Locomotive Emissions Control System Model
■ Advanced Methane & Ammonia Recovery System Model
■ Super Mobile Action Cleaning System Model
Exhibitors
The Expo will be visited by hundreds of conference attendees, dozens of teachers who are teaching our children and shaping our future engineers and leaders, hundreds of budding entrepreneurs who might just have the next innovative clean air technology idea, and hundreds of science-minded high school and college students. Don’t miss this opportunity to reach these diverse audiences today and share your products and technologies with them to impact their tomorrows!
Don’t miss the opportunity to showcase and share your clean air, low carbon energy or green technologies to our attendees, entrepreneurs, teachers, students, and the public.
The Expo opens at Noon on Sunday, September 14, 2008. Expo hours are as follows:
| Sunday, September 14, 2008: | Noon to 5:30 p.m. |
| Sunday Evening Exhibit Reception: | 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. |
| Monday, September 15, 2008: | 7:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. |
| Monday Evening Exhibit Reception: | 4:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. |
| Tuesday, September 16, 2008: | 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
For those exhibitors displaying vehicles in the exhibit hall, please go to the Hall C Loading Dock (directions are here) to have your vehicle brought into the exhibit hall. Vehicles must arrive between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 13, 2008.
There are still Sponsorhip & Exhibitor opportunities available. The official prospectus for “Sponsorship & Exhibitor Opportunities” can be viewed or downloaded here: Sponsorship & Exhibitor Opportunities Prospectus. It includes everything you need to know to exhibit. If you have any questions after reading the Prospectus, please contact Ms. Drue Hargis at 909 396-3237 or by email at dhargis@aqmd.gov. For your convenience, click here to download and print the sponsor-exhibitor signup form.
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