{"id":6765,"date":"2018-03-20T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6765"},"modified":"2018-03-20T20:29:23","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:29:23","slug":"more-conferencing-less-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6765","title":{"rendered":"More Conversation, Less Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a href=\"http:\/\/kias.ualberta.ca\">Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS)<\/a> hosted a panel discussion on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/kule-institute\/news-events\/kias-news-collection\/2018\/march\/more-conferencing-less-carbon\">More Conferencing, Less Carbon<\/a>. The discussion took place on site and online on your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/KIASualberta\">YouTube channel<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>At this panel discussion Trevor Chow-Fraser of the Office of Sustainability announced the release of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ualberta.ca\/sustainability\/resources\/tips-toolkits\">Moving Ideas Without Moving People<\/a> a toolkit on running e-conferences at the University of Alberta. This toolkit was co-authored by Trevor Chow-Fraser, Chelsea Miya and Oliver Rossier and was based on the KIAS experience organizing our <a href=\"http:\/\/aroundtheworld.ualberta.ca\">Around the World<\/a> e-conferences.<\/p>\n<p>What is at stake is the greening of research. We need to try and adapt different forms of video conferencing and live streaming to our conference\/workshop needs in research. We need to depend less on F2F (face-to-face) conferences where everyone flies in. We need to confront the carbon costs of flights and how habituated we are to flying for research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) hosted a panel discussion on More Conferencing, Less Carbon. The discussion took place on site and online on your YouTube channel. At this panel discussion Trevor Chow-Fraser of the Office of Sustainability announced the release of Moving Ideas Without Moving People a toolkit on running e-conferences at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=6765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Conversation, Less Carbon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6767,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions\/6767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}