College gives free online conference on environmental issues
Check out this unique and overdue idea: On April 10, the College of Public Health at Ohio State University will hold a free online teach-in on energy, climate change, water, agriculture and population. I'm definitely putting this on my calendar.
"Converging Environmental Crises" is a Web-based conference featuring more than a dozen health and environmental experts who will provide live and recorded presentations. Details here.
Just with eco-festivals that practice what they preach by recycling/composting their waste, this conference gives the public access to information without requiring them to hop in a plane or car to get it. Perhaps our local universities could look at doing Web-based conferences.
The Green Festivals held each year also has a good practice of providing audio and video of their speakers online to the public, a vital service if you hope to expand your message beyond the activists and entrepreneurs who can afford to take the trip. And one organization blogs the presentations at a recent conference in the United Kingdom.
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Thanks for this info! I'll be checking into the conferences. I hope you'll make time on 4/10 to make it to our last film. And don't forget the farmers market we'll be having beforehand, from 4:00 until 6:30.
Posted on April 3, 2008 1:01 PM