Treehugger has a piece up on tomorrow’s “Global PechaKucha Night for Haiti” event — it’s written by PKN Barcelona organizer Petz Scholtus, who will also be hosting an event that evening — and includes some interesting details on what an “online” event like this can mean in terms of its impact on the environment.
So on Saturday, around 2000 presentations will be held in 24 hours around the globe, which has to be world largest distributed conference ever, and more so, with the least amount of CO2 being emitted as everyone is speaking locally in their own city. No one has to get on a plane to present, and most events are accessible by public transport. Those who don’t have a PKN held nearby, can simply tune in on the PechaKucha Presentation WAVE, where all the cities are joined by a presentation relay, broadcast on what the PKN founder Astrid and Mark just named a global WAVEcast! You can watch the whole thing via Ustream.