Written by As I mentioned earlier, this week I went to the State of the Planet 2006. This Columbia thing has its perks. Here, on the campus I go to every day is one of the most important and largest gatherings of environmental thinkers for me to gawk at.
Seed let me miss work and go to the convention on a reconnaissance mission. My goal was to meet people like Denis Hayes, founder and President of Earth Day, to try and schedule an interview for 
Seed’s Earth Day coverage. Unfortunately Hayes was sick so I had to plan the interview the old-fashioned way via e-mail.
But I did get to meet a lot of interesting people and I heard lots of good talks. Speeches were given by some of the greatest minds in the field of environmental studies today. So while they were informative and compelling, they were also scary. These brilliant men and women have dedicated their lives to studying some niche of the environment and all they can report is that we are all going to hell. Well, perhaps that’s exaggerating it — many had positive ideas and were hopeful, but the general trend they were presenting was downward.
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