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EDUCAUSE Live! February 10, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

How Universities and R&E Networks Can Be Global Leaders in Helping to Reduce Global Warming

Special Guest

Bill St. ArnaudView Event ArchivesBill St. Arnaud
Chief Research Officer
CANARIE Inc.

Bill St. Arnaud is the chief research officer for CANARIE, Canada's advanced Internet development organization, where he has been responsible for the coordination and implementation of CA*net 4, Canada's next-generation optical Internet initiative. He has been the principal architect of the user-controlled LightPath concept of applying service-oriented architecture to network elements to allow users to create their own Internet network topologies and architectures fully integrated with their specific application and instrument needs.

Currently he is involved with a green IT broadband and cyberinfrastructure initiative to build a "zero carbon" next-generation Internet to help reduce global warming by reducing CO2 emissions. Previously St. Arnaud was the president and founder of TSA ProForma, a LAN/WAN software company. He is member of various committees and boards including ISOC, ICANN, UK Light, GLORIAD, NEPTUNE Canada, Globecomm, and GLIF. In 2002 he was featured by Time magazine Canada as the engineer who is wiring together advanced Canadian science. In 2005 he won the World Technology Summit award for communications. St. Arnaud is a frequent guest speaker at numerous conferences on the Internet and optical networking. He is a graduate of Carleton University School of Engineering.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Bill St. Arnaud, and the topic will be "How Universities and R&E Networks Can Be Global Leaders in Helping to Reduce Global Warming."

One of the greatest threats to our future society and economy is global warming. Universities researchers are now an increasingly significant contributor to CO2 emissions because of the demand for new cyberinfrastructure equipment, which is essential to the future of scientific discovery. As a result, some universities and R&E networks are exploring new types of computational and network architectures that not only benefit e-science but also reduce CO2 emissions. Optical high-speed research networks and distributed zero-carbon cyberinfrastructure data centers with network virtualization, web services, and grids will be a critical component of this architecture.

These developments can create new revenue opportunities for R&E networks and their associated universities through carbon offset trading. Universities and R&E networks can also help countries achieve national carbon reduction strategies by pioneering programs in green commerce to encourage students and faculty to reduce their personal carbon footprint through carbon credits by offering free e-products (e.g., e-textbooks, e-music, and off-campus broadband) as a reward mechanism to those who reduce their personal CO2 output in other activities. Such rewards or credits may be more effective than carbon taxes in modifying consumer behavior.

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