EnergyCamp Monday in Vegas

I sure wish I had the energy, so to speak, to run off to Vegas on Monday and attend EnergyCamp, a free unconference co-located with TechWeb's biggest event, Interop.  David Berlind (a fellow TechWebbie) and James Governor, who is ostensibly on our advisory board for Web 2.0 Expo Europe (we need to get him more involved!) are co-organizing it.  What is EnergyCamp?

Whether you’re an end user of technology, an IT professional, a vendor of hardware, software or infrastructure solutions, or an industry observer with an interest in technology’s energy consumption, Energy Camp is for you. Energy Camp is a collaborative forum where industry stakeholders will gather together to discuss the growing impact of today’s energy costs on IT’s bottom line, and the overarching importance of energy conservation and utilizing greener IT solutions and methods.

In his keynote conversation with Tim O'Reilly that just wrapped, Jonathan Schwartz said that he asked a group of CIOs who among them is responsible for their own power bill, and very few raised their hands. Accountability is headed our way, whether its paying our own power bills or paying the piper as our planet warms, we'd better start figuring out how to stem our energy addictions.