CNET did a significant amount of reporting on the Clean Energy Venture Summit hosted by the Clean Energy Incubator here in Austin last week.

There's an interview with Mayor Will Wynn on the city's plans for carbon-neutrality, and a number of pieces on companies and technologies at the conference. Click here for the full list.

Wynn addressed how the Climate Protection Plan banks on innovation -- "Ten years from now, we're going to wish we had a $150 million to buy what might be 10 times the generating power of a solar investment (today)."

I talk about conservation and efficiencies first. Then I'll talk about renewable power. I talk about everything from changes in land use patterns to driving less to being more fit--this holistic image about how we just need to consume less and save money.

CNET also published photos from Incubator tours of City Hall and the Dell Children's Medical Center. The Center -- one of the first operational buildings in the new Meuller redevelopment -- is "expected to be the first hospital to achieve the highest rating (platinum) for green buildings in the United States."

Bruce Sterling posted note 492 to the Viridian List, on Austin Green Capitalism:

If you'd told me ten years ago that the Mayor of my home town would be indulging in this kind of rhetoric, I would have been turning cartwheels. The Clean Energy Venture Summit was an intensely dull event. There was scarcely a "visionary" to be seen. On the contrary: suited, duely-diligent lawyers and bankers were throwing millions of dollars at engineers. That's the work of the world, folks. This is our third swing at this particular baseball: 1970s: eco-consciousness raising; 1990s, global political accords; 2010s, cybergreen ecotech.

Jon Lebkowsky made a couple of wrapup posts on his blog, and reported on the global WorldChanging blog, "The Utility of The Future," where he noted that during the energy economy transition,

We need a twofold focus on education: better programs to produce the scientists and engineers who will do the research and development that will transform our energy use, and better public education so that the average citizen shares some of the understanding that was pervasive at this particular conference.

The Austin Chronicle's Daniel Mottola reported in the latest issue that the conference

...showcased two revolutionary concepts: "clean tech," a burgeoning industry addressing a range of energy needs by tapping new, innovative technology to create products and services that compete favorably on price and performance while reducing environmental impacts, as well as "the utility of the future," a concept nurtured by Austin Energy that brings into harmony green building, an increasingly electrified transportation grid (think plug-in hybrid cars), and an information-technology-rich, fluidly communicating, "smart" grid of power lines.

Add your additional Summit-related resources in the comments.

[Update: Sterling mentions in his post that Wynn attended the Large Cities Climate Summit. The Summit website has available web streams of plenary sessions and panels. Wynn -- along with Houston mayor Bill White -- was a panelist on Panel 4: "Buildings - Creating Green Skylines." ]

[Update Two: More coverage at Tech Confidential; Austin American-Statesman coverage: Article by Robert Elder, Two Posts from Asher Price at the Salsa Verde Blog; Two Posts from the Austin Startup Blog]