A good scientific needs to travel in order to diffuse results and learn from colleges. Yet there is a carbon footprint for all this activity.
My question is how to achieve a good scientific career with a minimal carbon footprint.
So please share your opinions and estimates about this point, for example, correlations between h factor and carbon footprint, etc, etc.
Some strategies that I use are:
a) When travel, try to optimize conferences by carefully design a meeting plan. For example, make 1 flight per year to Europe, but use trains to go to many meetings once you are in Europe. Visit colleges who work nearby your landing place.
b) Find nearby meetings, accessible by train or short flights.
c) Use virtual conferences
d) See videos from important meetings.
e) Plant trees by yourself each year
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There are others trying to involve scientists; it is a little bit strange that most scientists agree with the facts of global warming, yet they act as if does not exist.
But here, at UNAM, some people are concerned also. If you can, please share these thoughts with others....
You may want to think of the move from hardcopies of books/journals and conference proceedings to electronic forms of these publications.
I made a research on this topic and there is no agreement on the question, what is more ecological, to read in books or eprints? Some experts claim that if you plan to spend more than 10 min in a page, it is better to print.
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