[cc-community] [Icommons] Green at the iSummit
John Hendrik Weitzmann
jhweitzmann at mx.uni-saarland.de
Tue Apr 1 19:33:09 EDT 2008
Hi,
in my opinion there should not be a whole track on the green commons,
but some relevant sessions (or maybe keynotes, as Alek suggested).
I agree with Florian, that to expand the scope of the ISummit or of
ICommons into the environmental commons would be an overstretch, but the
workings in the field of the environmental commons is a highly important
thing to learn from.
The environmental footprint of the event is a problem of the summit
principle itself. If the audience is truly global, any face-to-face
meeting, no matter where, causes people to travel.
nighty night,
John
Alek Tarkowski schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> I agree with the voices that have stated that a "green track" will
> stretch very much the spectrum of the commons that is addressed at
> iSummit. I think that with limited amount of time at our disposal, if we
> mutiply the number of distinct topics, especially if they also require
> specific and differing expertise, we might end up having thematic
> "silos", which is not good.
>
> Having said that, I believe the tie between information/cultural commons
> and the environment as a commons is very important. Maybe it would be
> best to have it addressed as a keynote? A person that comes to my mind
> is Vandana Shiva, who actually gave a talk on this issue in London, I
> think it was called "imagining the cultural commons". We are not
> environmental scientists or activists and thus lack the knowledge - but
> we have an attitude that let's us understand these issues, and this
> could well be used in a keynote format, which - in my opinion - should
> address broad, crucial issues.
>
> Regarding the practical greening of the conferences, personal carbon
> offsets seem to be getting hip, though in my part of the world *no one*
> is talking about them... And they seem a partial solution - a way to
> excuse the strain, rather than lessen it. I think that a good way to
> make this summit green is simply for all participants be aware of the
> environmental strain of global travel - and therefore make sure to make
> the best of the fact that they dragged themselves across half of the
> world or more on average, just so that they can do some work and talking
> face to face. In this way, the cost is not just offset, but also
> accounted for.
>
> cheers,
>
> Alek
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