[open-sustainability] 3rd International Open Data Conference 2015

Tue Dec 9 16:45:17 UTC 2014

Thanks for the response Rowena, Martin. A difficult question, for sustainability academics especially. A few thoughts:

Undoubtedly great irony encapsulated in the huge global roadshows that surround climate change negotiations, Al Gore staring out of a plane window in "The Inconvenient Truth", and a recent tweet by Leonardo Di Caprio that he was taking a year off filming to "fly around the world and save the environment".

Duncan Clark at the Guardian has written a lot on air travel and climate, and has produced this visualisation on the history of air travel with Robin Houston, who presented it at a recent Cleanweb London. http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2014/aviation-100-years

One obvious way of reducing the need to travel is telepresence, using Google Hangout or Skype etc. However, we are still social primates, and it will be a good while till they rival the full experience of face to face socialising. Moreover, I suspect the overall impact of the development of telepresence is to further drive globalisation, and demand for air travel.

From an open data perspective, Open Knowledge are planning more regional events, which will hopefully reducing travel miles than the global OKFests.

Jack

Web, Open Data & Sustainability		University of Southampton
@JackTownsend_ 					jack at jacktownsend.net

On 9 Dec 2014, at 15:48, Martín Szyszlican <martinsz at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's interesting, I heard about a national permaculture meeting being canceled for the same reason, everyone traveling by bus to one location was seen as a waste of resources.
> But how are long distance working relations sustainable without traveling?
> What would be a sustainable international travel medium?
> It seems to me that maybe sometimes our deep values can sabotage our goals. But I'm not sure this is the case.
> Sometimes being too pragmatic can also be the wrong approach.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure this is the right space for this debate, but since it came up I wanted to share this ramblings.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Martin.
> 
> El mar, dic 9, 2014 09:22, null <rowena at rparsons.co.uk> escribió:
> Hi Jack
> 
> Sound great. I just hope nobody who's interested in sustainability will be flying to this conference in an aeroplane.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Rowena
> 
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> On 2014-12-09 12:12, Jack Townsend wrote:
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