N. J. Focus the Nation Videoconference:
Global Warming Solutions for America

MAGPI is very pleased to help promote this event, sponsored by NJEDge.Net, New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability and Focus the Nation.

Seen Inconvenient Truth?
Heard that Global Warming is “Unequivocal”?
Now What?  

N.J. Focus the Nation Summit Videoconference  

Global Warming Solutions for America

Keynote: Dr. Eban Goodstein ,
Director, Focus On America

Date: Monday, February 26, 2007

Time: 4:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. EST

Connection: Webstream/On-Site 

You are invited to participate in NEW JERSEY FOCUS THE NATION SUMMIT, an interactive, videoconference on “Global Warming Solutions for America” linking your faculty and students to nine host campuses—sponsored by NJHEPS and FOCUS THE NATION.

Dr. Eban Goodstein, Professor of Economics at Lewis and Clark College and Director of FOCUS THE NATION, will present this national global warming educational initiative that coordinates teams of faculty, students and staff at over a thousand colleges and universities and high schools in the United States to participate in a nationwide, nonpartisan discussion on the theme of climate stabilization.

The capstone event is on Jan. 31, 2008--- a one-day symposium to be held simultaneously on campuses across the country to get climate solutions on the agenda of all the presidential candidates, legislators, mayors and politicians before the election. FOCUS THE NATION is designed to be a catalyzing event that turns the national conversation about global warming from fatalism to constructive engagement with the challenge of our generation.

Hear Goodstein’s powerful invitation for you and your institution to join FOCUS THE NATION, join the dialogue in the World Café and consider an Action Plan to move your institution forward (http://www.theworldcafe.com/), hear from Campus Climate Challenge - representing the student clean energy movement – http://climatechallenge.org.

How to Participate:

Two possibilities for you to consider:

1) You are invited to come with a group of colleagues and students to one of the nine campus videoconferencing sites. Join faculty and students broadcasting from FDU, Kean (coordinating site), NJIT, Princeton, Ramapo, Raritan Valley, Rowan, Rutgers, or William Paterson. Pizza & soft drinks will be served at cost if you decide to attend onsite.

2) Equally appropriate, invite faculty and students and create a FOCUS THE NATION event on your own campus. Stream the videoconference live into a meeting room via computer on a large screen and hear the whole meeting. We will all have the same discussion guidelines for the World Café and you can send us the results by email. Your group will not be “live” on the screen but you can send questions and comments and get responses in real time through Instant Messaging to the Kean University coordinating site.
Please see instructions for connecting to the live webstream!

More Information/Registration:

Dr. Donald Wheeler, Senior Advisor, NJHEPS, ,or 201-445-9272

How to Connect to the Live Webstream:

1. Go to http://commonsvcg.oar.net/MAGPI

2. Click on "NJ Focus the Nation" under live streams. The stream should be viewable in either Windows Media Player or Quicktime.

If you have difficulties connecting to the stream, please see the information below.

The live web stream will not be available until 15 minutes prior to the event. We encourage you to test by trying to access any of the archived streams prior to the live event.

Internet2 Commons Streaming - Troubleshooting  

The Internet2 Commons is a bridging and streaming service that MAGPI provides free of charge to our connected institutions and is a subscription service to which MAGPI subscribes.Currently, there is a known bug with Quicktime Version 7 and there is currently a ticket open with Starbak from the Internet2 Commons; however, lower versions of Quicktime (6 or lower), sites can successfully view the live and archived streams. For Windows users, you must successfully install the H.263 video codec (available if you click on "Help" button of the streaming window), but once installed there should be no problem in viewing the stream. You must also disable pop-up blockers to be able to view the stream.