I find this:

source : http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/11/poland-creates-climate-change-second-life-sim.html

-The Click Heard Round The World by Rik Riel – (Blog name)

United Nations Climate Change sim opens in Second Life tomorrow (November 29)

Starting tomorrow, November 29, the Ministry of Media officially opens in Second Life, a sim dedicated to the UN Climate Change Conference happening in Poznań, Poland from December 1-12. The Poznań meeting, which is expected to draw 8,000 participants from around the world, is intended to „advance international cooperation on a future climate change regime and ensure progress on key issues” related to global warming.

More on my brief tour of the sim after the jump…

This morning, I teleported to the Ministry of Media sim (click here to teleport) to check out the preparations for the climate change conference. I ran into Bodeha Zapedzki, CEO of Servicetek, the Polish SL development firm organizing the inworld activities of the UN conference.

I asked Bodeha what we should expect to find in the sim during the conference. He told me that there will be live video streaming from the UN conference, which is pretty incredible.  I wish we had this kind of live streaming into Second Life when I was involved with the World Summit on the Information Society back in 2005.

Unfortunately, he explained that there will not be any communication from Second Life back to the real life participants, which I found disappointing considering they had more interactivity at the Bali climate change conference in 2007. It would have been neat if they had the capacity to organize at least a daily briefing with some conference organizers or environmental groups attending the talks to report back on what is happening, and entertain questions from the virtual observers.  Or have some informed attendees inworld during key parts of the negotiations to explain to us what is happening and why its important.  Oh well, I know how hard these things are to organize even in the best of circumstances.

Tomorrow at 1pm, avatars at the opening of the sim will be entertained by the featured performers are the „SL Travelling Wilburys.”  Visitors can also check out an evocative art exhibit called „The Last Fir Tree” by Poid Mahovlich (see image above), virtual replicas of sustainable structures made out of bamboo, and an exhibit area with information about climate change and the environment.

It’s great to see a UN conference experimenting with bringing in a broader global audience using a virtual world. Hopefully there will be other ways to engage the virtual audience other than just passively watching a video feed, which will get boring very fast, no matter the urgency and importance of the subject matter.

author: Rik Riel

thx Rik for this:)

-Ayumi Cassini Does Second Life- ( Blog name)

source: http://ayumicassini.blogspot.com/2008/12/meet-mister.html

Meet the MISTER

My favourite avatar in SL and a talented scripter, Sql Miles, has created the coolest SL transportation system ever. It’s a recreation of MISTER – Metropolitan Individual System of Transportation on an Elevated Rail. In real life the system consists of electrically powered gondolas gliding on a rail track suspended overhead. In SL it looks similar, except the gondolas are powered by LSL scripts :)

Sql created this system for COP14 conference island in SL (The 14th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). The track goes around the island and there are four stations where you can get on/off (the main areas of the island). Once you’re there, just sit in a gondola and choose where you want to go. Fun! :)

The COP14 island, where MISTER operates, was developed by Bodeha Zapedzki. It is worth to explore it and learn how to be eco-friendly in everyday life. Let me give you a bit more information about the conference:

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is one of the most important environmental agreements to lay down a framework for international actions to address global climate warming. On the basis of the agreement adopted in the course of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992), the objectives and principles were set for the cooperation among the States to prevent climate change and to mitigate its adverse effects, e.g. by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. As a result of negotiations, political decisions and legal instruments emerge to ensure the implementation of the provisions of the Convention, such as e.g. the Kyoto Protocol, which set out the States? commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

There’s lots to see on the island, including constant weather changes every few minutes and an art installation ‘The Last Fir Tree’ by SL artist Poid Mahovlich. Oh, and if you come across Bodeha on the island, ask him to show you the tornado ;)

Posted by Ayumi Cassini

Thx Ayumi i show you Tornado;)