OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
In 1998 the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) proposed a provocative and challenging idea: the primary energy consumption of everyone in Switzerland could be reduced to 2000 watts per person per hour without negatively impacting their quality of life. In a referendum in 2008, 76% voted to make Zürich a 2000watt society by 2050, which would mean reducing the primary energy consumption by two-thirds. Is this remotely possible given that historically GDP and energy consumption scale linearly? And how does one go about this? Discuss.
