Strategic News Service is hosting FiReGlobal: West Coast 2009. The event will bring together business, government, and community leaders to discuss local problems and how to solve them. According to the invitation: “This is an action conference, all about substance, solutions and getting things done. AND it has all of the famous FiRe DNA: fast-paced, full of new ideas and technologies, new FiReStar companies busy improving the world, venture capitalists looking for new opportunities, and economic predictions by the fellow who predicted the collapse on TV in February of 2007.” To register, visit the website