2008 Woodie Awards
Webcast addresses 2% cure
Natalie Morera
Issue date: 1/30/08 Section: News
UCF will be the center of the environmental movement for one hour today when it hosts a live webcast about the need to decrease greenhouse gases.
The 2% Solution will not only be live, but also interactive. The webcast will engage a studio audience, and those viewing can participate via cell phone in the discussion of possible resolutions.
Experts will discuss methods and ideas, with the help of the interactive audience, to decrease greenhouse gases by 2 percent each year for the next 40 years, resulting in an 80 percent decrease overall.
Joining the webcast will be Stephen Schneider, a climate scientist at Stanford University, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders.
Schneider has been studying global warming for 37 years.
He said the 2 percent decrease would not show results in the next 10 years because there is no way to lower greenhouse gas emissions that have already been released.
Schneider said that greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 will not be lower than in 2008, but we "can get over the hump."
By decreasing the release of these gases now, we would have an investment for how fast they would decrease in the future.
Penelope Canan, an environmental sociologist and professor, has been studying climate change for more than 20 years and has been at UCF since fall 2006.
Canan offered to host the national event at UCF one year ago and reserved the Pegasus Ballroom for the event.
Canan has been putting the word out ever since.
"We have fliers, and we've taken them around to restaurants downtown and bulletins," Canan said. "Most advertisements have been national because the webcast will be viewed by more than a thousand universities."
Along with presenting in the Pegasus Ballroom and the Nike Community Center, the group ventured to outside venues to seek participation.
"We were looking for different venues that had a big screen and that would also be happy and likely to host something like this," Canan said.
The 2% Solution will not only be live, but also interactive. The webcast will engage a studio audience, and those viewing can participate via cell phone in the discussion of possible resolutions.
Experts will discuss methods and ideas, with the help of the interactive audience, to decrease greenhouse gases by 2 percent each year for the next 40 years, resulting in an 80 percent decrease overall.
Joining the webcast will be Stephen Schneider, a climate scientist at Stanford University, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins, green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders.
Schneider has been studying global warming for 37 years.
He said the 2 percent decrease would not show results in the next 10 years because there is no way to lower greenhouse gas emissions that have already been released.
Schneider said that greenhouse gas emissions in 2009 will not be lower than in 2008, but we "can get over the hump."
By decreasing the release of these gases now, we would have an investment for how fast they would decrease in the future.
Penelope Canan, an environmental sociologist and professor, has been studying climate change for more than 20 years and has been at UCF since fall 2006.
Canan offered to host the national event at UCF one year ago and reserved the Pegasus Ballroom for the event.
Canan has been putting the word out ever since.
"We have fliers, and we've taken them around to restaurants downtown and bulletins," Canan said. "Most advertisements have been national because the webcast will be viewed by more than a thousand universities."
Along with presenting in the Pegasus Ballroom and the Nike Community Center, the group ventured to outside venues to seek participation.
"We were looking for different venues that had a big screen and that would also be happy and likely to host something like this," Canan said.