The document presents a vision for a sustainable world with renewable energy sources and zero emissions. It describes a world with robust clean energy infrastructure including transmission grids, energy storage solutions, smart appliances, buildings designed for efficiency, and integrated transportation. This new "electron economy" would combine smart energy, energy informatics, and new sources of energy like quantum, nuclear, hydrogen, and biofuels to power everything in a sustainable way. Revolutionary advances in water recycling, agriculture, and carbon sequestration are also part of the vision. The document calls for sharing this vision, making a plan, building a team, and working together to make this sustainable future a reality.

1. Imagine a World… De Anza College 2009 Teach-in

3. Imagine a World…

4. With renewable energy and zero emission power

6. A robust transmission grid reliably and intelligently delivering clean energy

8. A smart energy infrastructure, seamlessly integrating distributed production with demand

10. Energy storage and conversion solutions, from high performance batteries and ultracapacitors, to flow cells, and fuel cells

12. Net metering that serves as a gateway between the external and internal grids, information & decision hubs

13. ZigBee Wireless Gateways

14. A world of smart appliances - designed to communicate internally and designed for low power demand

16. Buildings designed with efficiency as a 'first ethic', some net zero, and all integrated with the environment

18. Transportation systems integrated with cities, and driven by electricity, and some of it 'recycled' (quantum rail technology)

22. An electron economy - integrating smart energy, energy informatics, and electron liquidity, emerging 'electronomics'

23. Smart Grid Ecosystem

25. Quantum energy - from new fission to fusion to zero point and wireless electricity (WiTricity)

26. VHTR Nuclear Energy

27. Nuclear Energy => Hydrogen

28. WiTricity

29. Alternative transportation fuels to augment electric vehicles - hydrogen, biomethane, and real biofuels (not agrifuels)

31. Water recycling to reduce the energy needed to purify and transport water

33. Revolutionary advances in agriculture to reduce water use, providing abundant food in stressed soil, and biomass conversion

35. Using GMO and synthetic biology to accelerate sequestration of GHGs from the atmosphere, before irreparable harm occurs

38. It starts with a vision… which becomes our shared commitment Then a plan and a process to build and support a team It is our time to be leaders, and make this vision reality