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. isal2019, ALIFE 2019: The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life21-27, (July 29–August 2, 2019) doi: 10.1162/isal_a_00133
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The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that humanity has a time window of about 12 years in order to prevent anthropogenic climate change of catastrophic magnitude. Green house gas emission from air travel, which is currently rising, is possibly one of the factors that can be most readily reduced. Within this context, we advocate for the re-design of academic conferences in order to decrease their environmental footprint. Today, virtual technologies hold the promise to substitute many forms of physical interactions and increasingly make their way into conferences to reduce the number of travelling delegates. Here, we present the results of a survey in which we gathered the opinion on this topic of academics worldwide. Results suggest there is ample room for challenging the (dangerous) business-as-usual inertia of scientific lifestyle.
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. ecal2015, ECAL 2015: the 13th European Conference on Artificial Life529, (July 20–24, 2015) doi: 10.1162/978-0-262-33027-5-ch093