Planktos, Sierra Student Coalition to Sponsor Maine Climate Summit

Leading ecorestoration firm and Sierra Club youth auxiliary join forces to back dynamic student-focused climate conference featuring international experts and educational strategy discussions as well as workshops on the latest climate science, innovative new technologies, and youth-driven policy reforms.

Bar Harbor/San Francisco (PRWEB) February 7, 2007 -- Silicon Valley ecorestoration firm Planktos, Inc. is pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of the 3rd annual Maine Climate Summit Feb 9-11 with the Sierra Student Coalition. The event is being hosted by the SustainUS Maine Geocluster at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

The Summit will focus on building the Maine youth and student climate movement and feature speakers and workshops on climate science and technologies to combat climate change as well as young people's decision-making and policy-shaping potential on campuses, in their communities, and at state, national, and international levels.

This year's keynote speaker will be Alison Drayton, a senior United Nations Development Programme official with broad experience in the climate change arena. Drayton previously distinguished herself on the UN Commission on Sustainable Development and as a negotiator for the United Nations climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol, and the Convention to Combat Desertification.

College of the Atlantic alumna, Julia Clark of Planktos, Inc. will host a workshop on cutting edge science-intensive climate mitigation technologies. The session will feature Rob Niven, an expert on carbon capture and storage in concrete, and Clark's presentation on the Planktos paradigm, which leverages the formidable CO2 sequestration potential of restored marine and terrestrial ecosystems to generate saleable carbon offsets and sustainably fund ongoing rehabilitation of natural food chains, habitat, and biodiversity. Planktos is launching large climate forest parks in Europe and plankton restoration projects in the Pacific this spring. Its multi-beneficial green approach not only promises broad environmental gains, full scale restoration of ocean plankton life alone could annually remove 3~4 billion tons of atmospheric CO2 or approximately half of all manmade emissions today.

The College of the Atlantic is one of nearly 500 US colleges committed to clean energy and climate change countermeasures, and last fall became the first campus in the nation to commit to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. The energy, devotion and expertise emerging from the student climate change movement have captured the attention of international policy makers and the media, and were exemplified by the influential youth presence at the UNFCC meeting in Nairobi last fall. Planktos is proud to support and ally itself with such dynamic campus climate leaders to build the critical partnerships needed to combat the CO2-driven crises we face both at sea and on land

This weekend's conference is open to interested youth in the area as well as all concerned citizens. Information regarding registration can be found at http://www.ssc.org/involved/registration.php?e=66

For more information regarding the Summit, contact: climatesummit@generationkyoto.net or call 288-5350.

For information on Planktos, contact:
Julia Clark
Julia.clark@planktos.com
650.638.1975

About Planktos
Planktos, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Solar Energy Limited (SLRE.OB) soon to be acquired by Diatom Corp (DTMC.OB). Solar has reached agreement with Diatom to sell Planktos, Inc. to Diatom for a majority interest in Diatom shares of after which Diatom intends to change its name to Planktos Corp.