Photos: SEJ's 17th annual conference in Stanford, CA

Saturday, September 8, 2007

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Concurrent Sessions 3: THE CRAFT II: Disease Detectives: How to Train a Journalistic Eye on Environmental Causes of Illness
Photos by Ken Friedman. Click on photos to enlarge.

L-R: Julie Parsonnet, Stanford Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine and Epidemiology; Dan Fagin, New York University; Chris Bowman, The Sacramento Bee; and Beth Daley, The Boston Globe














Concurrent Sessions 4: THE CRAFT I: Exploiting Databases: Environmental Indicators, Risk Screening and TRI
Photos by Ken Friedman. Click on photos to enlarge.

Joseph Davis, Freelance Journalist and SEJ WatchDog Project Director/TipSheet Editor











Plenary: Toward a New Journalism
Photos by Ken Friedman. Click on photos to enlarge.

Pre-plenary lunch in Stanford's beautiful gardens and picnic areas
Judy Muller, University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication, and Amy Gahran, Freelance Journalist
David Ledford, The News Journal, Wilmington, DE; Tom Murphy, RedwoodAge.com; and Vikki Porter, USC Knight New Media Center
Porter and Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News and Managing Editor, KQED-TV "QUEST"

























Mini-Tour: Room to Breathe: Open Space Preservation in the Silicon Valley
Photos by Ken Friedman. Click on photos to enlarge.
Jay Thorwaldson, Editor, Palo Alto Weekly
Kathleen Jones, Ranger, City of Palo Alto
1906 earthquake fenceline shift












































































Mini-Tour: Driving the Future: From Cellulosic Ethanol to Plug-In Hybrids
Photos by Charlotte Kidd. Click on photos to enlarge.
Tour-goers watch as Pacific Gas & Electric staff demonstrate how its Prius "Sparky" returns electricity to the grid. In future with Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G), drivers could charge up hybrids at $.05 kW, for example, then return energy at night earning $.25 kW.
One of Caltrans' AC Transit fuel-cell buses with tour co-leader Jim Motavalli on right.






















Mendel's Zhang, Motavalli and SEJers including Janet Raloff with miscanthus under hybridization to supply increased mass for ethanol production.
PG&E's diesel-electric hybrid utility bucket truck is quieter and uses 40 to 60% less fuel than a conventional diesel truck.
















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