<html><head></head><body>Hi, while I won't be attending I wanted to say that this is a great initiative.<br>Thanks for initiating it.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 June 2019 7:13:31 pm AEST, adam steer <adam.d.steer@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks<div><br></div><div>Following from an earlier discussion [1] on osgeo-oceania about offsetting emissions which are incurred by getting to FOSS4G SotM Oceania, there’s been a long chat in the Maptime Australia slack channel about creating a low-carbon conference.</div><div><br></div><div>This has also been raised as an issue for the global FOSS4G [2].</div><div><br></div><div>The upshot of the conversation is that we’re looking at ways to mitigate our impact on the planet using something other than throwing money at offsetters [3].<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>With that in mind, I’ve sent enquiries to Bush Heritage Australia [4] and the NZ Native Forest Regeneration Trust [5] about donating an amount to work toward landscape-scale forest and biodiversity restoration - since buying acres of maybe-never-planted monoculture is really not a solution (see [3]).</div><div><br></div><div>The idea is that the conference uses some of its budget (amount TBA) to ‘offset’ the event. Since the event is in NZ, the main carbon source is air travel - so I’ll do some modelling work to estimate travel GHG emissions, based initially on 2018 attendees and refining as we go.</div><div><br></div><div>If you have any useful tools to hand for that task to hand, I’d appreciate hearing about them (or better! collaboration!). John Bryant already suggested this one: <a href="https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/Pages/default.aspx">https://www.icao.int/environmental-protection/CarbonOffset/Pages/default.aspx</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you know any other ‘boots on ground’ organisations we should consider, also please let us know.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Adam</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/2019-April/001348.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/foss4g-oceania/2019-April/001348.html</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-June/005222.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/2019-June/005222.html</a> (end of a discussion)</div><div>[3] <a href="https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/#162201">https://features.propublica.org/brazil-carbon-offsets/inconvenient-truth-carbon-credits-dont-work-deforestation-redd-acre-cambodia/#162201</a></div><div>[4] <a href="https://www.bushheritage.org.au">https://www.bushheritage.org.au</a></div><div>[5] <a href="https://www.nfrt.org.nz">https://www.nfrt.org.nz</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dr. Adam Steer</div><div><a href="http://spatialised.net" target="_blank">http://spatialised.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adam_Steer</a><br><a href="http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer" target="_blank">http://au.linkedin.com/in/adamsteer</a></div><div><a href="http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236" target="_blank">http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0046-7236</a><br>+61 427 091 712 :: @adamdsteer</div><div><br></div><div>Suits are bad for business: <a href="http://www.spatialised.net/business-penguins/" target="_blank">http://www.spatialised.net/business-penguins/</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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