If you're interested in the growing cleantech industry, check out the CleanTech Expo XII next week in San Francisco. Pressing concerns about climate change plus a widespread re-engineering of American business to reduce greenhouse gas emissions means clean technology will play an increasingly important role in Silicon Valley. I'll be reporting from the conference Monday and Tuesday.

From a press advisory we received:

Cleantech Forum XII will be held at the San Francisco Marriott (SOMA)
on February 19-21 and will feature technologies that will develop
alternative energy, increase energy efficiency and mitigate global
warming - while making money.

Attracting nearly 400 venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, the SF
Cleantech Forum provides first-hand access to cleantech leaders. Key
speakers include Vincent Chornet, Enerkem; Chris Poirier, Coaltek;
Jan-Olaf Willums, Th!nk Electric Car Company; Bob Epstein,
Environmental Entrepreneurs; Dan Kammen, Berkeley Institute of the
Environment; Alexander Karsner, Department of Energy; Jonathan Lash,
World Resources Institute; Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute; and
Governor Edward Rendell of Pennsylvania.