The sun has set on Day 1 of Pop!Tech 2007, and it was a beautiful day in Camden. The final session is up online right now, with Sheila Kennedy presenting on a sustainable tomorrow.

But I am certain the there will be a lot of action in the blogosphere with the amazing bloggers we have in attendance and equally amazing ones writing from off-site.

Here is a run down of some of the postings that we’ve found. If you have blogged about Pop!Tech and I haven’t caught your post yet, please add it by leaving a comment on the blog! And thank you for being a part of the online Pop!Tech Community.

Pop!Tech Peeks a “The Human Impact - Wired Blog
Pop!Tech is in action - Josh Spear
Boing Boing Gadgets at Pop!Tech - Boing Boing
Live from Pop!Tech - TreeHugger
Pop!Tech 2007: blogging live! - Core77
Pop!Tech’s Carbon Initiative - Marketplace Style - Lunch over IP
Pop!Tech Kicks off in Camden Maine - Renee Blodgett
Ethan Zuckerman’s Prolific Blogging
NextBillion.net - Robert Katz
AmGlobal - Andrew Mack
Pop!Tech: Pleo Unleashed! - Popular Science
Live From Pop!Tech 2007:Saving The World Via SMS - Popular Science
Pop!Tech Very Different for Me This Time Around - Thomas Barnett

Foreign and International Blogs

Tiago Doria’s Pop!Tech Play by Play (Portuguese)
Medea Material - Jules Rincon (Spanish)
This Iranian American Life - Paris Marashi and Hamid Tehrani (Farsi)
Paris Marashi is in Pop!Tech Conference - Sounds Iranian

Today marks the first day of Pop!Tech 2007: “The Human Impact”

For the second year, our partners at Yahoo! have made it possible to webcast the entire program for free online. To see the webcast visit:

http://live.poptech.org

But it doesn’t end there.

1. You can see photographs of the event as it unfolds by visiting the Pop!Tech Flickr Page.

2. You can ask questions to the speakers live on stage by emailing questions@poptech.org

3. See who’s up next by checking the 2007 Pop!Tech Schedule

4. And if by some miracle you can handle more (and we hope you can), you can take a look at past speaker presentations available as video Pop!Casts. We have also just unveiled a selection of these Pop!Casts that have been translated into eight languages (Chinese, Farsi, Arabic, Swahili, Russian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese) with the help of an extraordinary tool developed by dotSub.

The Public Library of Science recently published the paper “The Diploid Genome Sequence of an Individual Human”.

That individual happens to be one of the first to ever sequence the human genome, Dr. Craig Venter (Pop!Tech 2006). While the race to decode the human genome was completed years ago, this paper provides a much more in-depth analysis of what makes Venter — Venter.

Click on the image below to get a closer look.

and we are thrilled to have her!

Last year, Michele led Pop!Tech’s Carbon Negative Initiative to make the conference not just carbon neutral, but carbon negative. The project ensured an offset of more than twice the total carbon emissions, inclusive of flights, ground transportation and lodging of all 530 Pop!Tech conference participants.

Michele has posted on the Pop!Tech Blog in the past. You can see her stories here:

Two Pictures, One Vision

A Tale of Two Villages

She is the Managing Director of Global Foresight Associates, a foresight research and consulting firm based in Boston, and co-host of FringeHog, a podcast about the future. Michele is also the Executive Director of the Association for Professional Futurists and an active member of the Pop!Tech community.

Michele is at the forefront of her field, and when that field is futures research - you can be sure she will have a lot to share with us that will blow us away.

I flew up to Camden, ME this week to meet up with my fellow Pop!Techers. As I waited for my flight at New York’s JFK, I decided to ease myself into an outdoorsy frame of mind and bought the latest issue of Outside Magazine.

The banner across cover model, Governor Schwarzenegger’s chest, reads The Green Issue. In the magazine, they list some of the Green leaders and innovators from politics, health care, architecture and Hollywood.

Entrepreneur, explorer, eligible bachelor and Pop!Tech friend David de Rothschild is featured as one of these Enviro All-Stars. David is the founder of Adventure Ecology, a program that gets kids excited about adventure and fosters an appreciation for global responsibility.

“The environment is an area that requires a great deal of energy and optimism,” David says, “and, to my mind, kids have these features in abundance.”

Here is another feature from 2006 on David and how he started Adventure Ecology (also from Outside Magazine).

The environmental blog TreeHugger has written about “AntiBabel“

You can see the post here.

A few nights ago, I was lucky enough to join Neema Mgana and architect Gaston Tolila at the National Design Triennial at the Cooper Hewitt Museum in NYC where the Ipuli Media Complex was selected as one of the best designs of the past three years.

The Triennial brings together the experimental designs and emerging ideas-including animation, new media, and fashion, robotics, architecture, product, medical, and graphic design-at the center of American culture from 2003 to 2006.

Gaston Tolila and his partner Nicholas Gilliland are architects from Paris who are designing the Ipuli Medical Complex in Tanzania after teaming up with Cameron Sinclair’s Architecture for Humanity who in turn met with Neema Mgana at the 2005 Pop!Tech.

Pop!Tech wants to congratulate Neema, Gaston and Nicholas and everyone involved in this remarkable project. It is truly inspiring not only to see this endeavor come to fruition, but also to see it receive the attention and accololades it deserves.

Gaston and exhibit vistor

Close up of Ipuli Medical Complex model

Gaston and Neema

models and sketches of the first building of the complex

Here is a Flickr slideshow by Patrick Haney to remind us of the power of really simple and functional website design…the best kind there is.

via: SwissMiss

Malian villagers can stream video content over WiFi as a result of Geekcorps’ CanTV project. The project has enabled a local radio station to stream video content to the local community using TV antennas built with cans (cantennas). Geekcorps is the organization behind water bottle WiFi in Mali, and the receiver of Tech Museum Award for the Desert PC.

One of the segments in this year’s PBS special, “Alive from Pop!Tech”, (specifically the segment with Ed Castronova and Ivan Marovic) inspired a viewer in New Jersey to write a novel for the National Novel Writing Month! The novel, called “Ursula Unplugged”, is set 200 years in the future and follows two online friends whose relationship starts through a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game.

You can track the author’s progress as she writes the novel. Currently, she is at about 22,349 words. The goal for all the novels is to reach 50,000 words.

Here’s the story — see the line(s) about us about halfway down:

Glad to see that Pop!Tech continues to inspire people in big and small ways…