West Texas Sustainability Conference

So I got this announcement e-mailed to me today for the West Texas Sustainability Conference being hosted by Texas Tech University on April 21, 2011. You can visit the official website for the conference and sign up if you are going to be in the area. The website says this in the overview:

This conference is focused on practical application, state of the art, and future trends for sustainability. The geographical patina is wilderness, rural, agricultural lands, and small town America, rather than large metropolitan areas. The topics for seminars will be diverse and both for general or professional interests. Major topics considered are: telecommunication, transportation, energy, water, environmental resources, environmental law, land use planning and design. This one-day conference will feature many case studies of actual projects in West Texas and the Southwest

If you are going to be in the area anyway I would suggest trying to go. I would but will be busy with class and other engagements that day. I may, if I can get some free time, go check out the farmer's market on the 22nd. I would be interesting to hear from anyone who goes about how it is. This is an important topic for the area with a decreasing amount of water in the aquifer that supplies most of the area as well as decreasing oil world wide much of which this area used to supply.