To co-incide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali next week, we will be holding a special series of events in Second Life.
The UN conference runs from the 3rd – 14th of December, and over that fortnight, Second Nature will play host to a range of speakers including Dr Simon Buckle, Director of Climate Change Policy at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change ; Dr Tara LaForce, Imperial College on her research on carbon capture and storage and George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of Heat: How to stop the planet burning.
The first speaker will be Tara LaForce on Tuesday 4th December at 6pm GMT/ 10am PST, SLT: all events are free, open to all, and will be held on our flagship Second Nature island.
Speaker details are in the next post, which will be updated as and when: for more details on times, dates and new speakers, watch our this blog for updates, email me, or join the “Nature” group in Second Life. Lastly, if anyone’s interested, but has never tried Second Life before, now’s a good time, and I’d be very happy to help anyone get started and show you round Second Life – email me, or find me in SL as Joanna Wombat.
Anything to report yet, Jo? I just went to second life to see if I could find anything – or at least, tried to, but the site says “registration is down”.
Hi Maxine – sorry for not replying sooner, the short answer was “no” so I was waiting until it changed to “yes”! We have put the two talks up on this blog and you saw that George Monbiot had to be cancelled because he got flu on that morning? Very disappointing, but he has promised to come in in the new year and do it then, so will keep you updated.
Thanks, Jo.
I eventually got into the SL registration system when it was finally up, filled everything out, chose a name and so on (very hard as you had to choose from their menu not make up your own), then it would not let me register! I have a feeling I had a look at SL ages ago when I first found out about it — before Nature started its island — and of course have forgotten everything about it. So I am probably forever doomed never to go there, and exiled to only finding out things about it via your blog!