Friday, June 29, 2007

Global action on climate change

Monday 2 July 4pm PDT (12 midnight UK time).
Tuesday 3 July 11pm PDT (7 am 4 July UK time).

SP Adopters' amphitheatre (see the link at the side).

Human activity, such as burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests, has increased levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere. These so-called greenhouse gases trap heat reaching the Earth from the sun and temperatures are increasing. If this continues unchecked the planet will become inhospitable to human life.

Second Life Simultaneous Policy Adopters' Group (SL-SPAG) is holding a policy forum on climate change. SP brings people together around the world to discuss solutions to global problems, with a strategy for gaining political support for their implementation, a strategy that is working.

Aubrey Meyer, Director of the Global Commons Institute, spoke at an SP event at the UK Parliament earlier this year and his presentation will be played with live explanation of SP from Luzo Orbit and discussion.

You can listen to the full set of presentations from the event at:
http://luzoorbit.blogspot.com/2007/03/climate-change-policy-forum-28-february.html

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Meetings 2-5 July

Due to popular demand from North American SL residents, there will be a series of meetings from 2-5 July held later in the SL day.

The programme will be posted here shortly.

Friday, June 1, 2007

Discussion on top SP policies: 4-8 June

SP Amphitheatre, Tangun.
4-8 June, 5 am PDT - 1 pm UK time (GMT+1).

Discussion forums have been added to the Simpol-UK website where it is possible to comment and vote on policy suggestions submitted so far.

Go to the 'policy zone' of:
http://www.simpol.org.uk/

The next SL-SPAG Radio special will look at the current ranking of suggestions. What's the most popular? How can Adopters submit proposals and get them climbing the list? How will the detail of policies be developed and decided?

Follow the link at the side to visit the SP Amphitheatre in Second Life, or listen on line by clicking on the link or cutting and pasting it into your mp3 programme:
http://www.mediamax.com/mikebrady/Hosted/topideas0607.mp3

Remember to vote for SL-SPAG to win a New Media Award if you have not done so already. It would great to see more comments on the Award site, as well as the ranking votes. See:
http://www.newstatesman.com/nma/nma2007/nominations/200703130001