Sustainability

Sustainability in Tech, Yet Another Collection of Links

Documentation

Papers

• Collection: Computing Within Limits (2015-2023+) https://computingwithinlimits.org/
  • https://limits.pubpub.org

• Collection: Carbon Aware Networks Workshop 2023 https://eng.ox.ac.uk/carbonawarenetworksworkshop/programme/
  • Carbon-Aware Inter-Domain Networking Based on Path Awareness
  • Candidate Metrics for Carbon Efficient Routing (slides)
  • Carbon Reduction through Compact Routing (Lightning talk) (slides)
  • Why Inter-AS CAR metric should be different to intra-AS
  • Itzik Kiselevsky (Broadcom) - Evolution of switches power consumption (slides)
  • Lower bounds for internet traffic power consumption (slides)
  • Does rate adaptation at daily timescales make sense? (slides)
  • Power electronics in computing systems (Lightning talk) (slides)
  • Energy-aware routing in IP networks (poster)
  • Computing system for processing of environmental monitoring measurements (slides)
  • CarbonQuanDRIs and Other Thoughts (slides)
  • Greener electronics hardware, metrics, circularity and recyclability
  • Sustainability on carrier transport networks - activities from Telefonica (slides)
  • Problematizing the sustainability of 5G/6G networks and devising alternative ways forward (slides)
  • System Efficiency as Carbon Awareness (slides)
  • Towards Mitigating Intermittency of Renewable Energy Supply in Large-Scale Computing Infrastructure with Job Replication
  • Towards Greener 5G and Beyond Radio Access Networks (Lightning talk)

• Collection from HotNets 2021: Twentieth ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Network
  • Rethinking Web for Affordability and Inclusion https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3484266.3487376
  • Redesigning Data Centers for Renewable Energy https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3484266.3487394

• The AI footprint (OECD) : Measuring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence compute and applications; November 15, 2022 https://www.oecd.org/publications/measuring-the-environmental-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence-compute-and-applications-7babf571-en.htm

• Quantum Internet & Sustainability, October 2022 https://github.com/Lizaterdag/QIH-2022/blob/main/Qubits_for_the_Kids.pdf

• How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably? https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-020-00857-z

• Redirecting Technologies for the Deep Sustainability Transformation, TU Berlin https://doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-16187.2

• “An Ontology Of Electronic Waste“ Maurits Fennis https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/an-ontology-of-electronic-waste

• (reducing) Emissions From Computing Onboard Autonomous Vehicles https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9942310

• 2022 collection: IAB e-impact : https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/e-impact/

• TerraWatt: Sustaining Sustainable Computing of Containers in Containers (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06614

• Enabling Sustainable Clouds: The Case for Virtualizing the Energy System (2021) https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.08872

• Carbon Responder: Coordinating Demand Response for the Datacenter Fleet (2023) https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.08589.pdf

• The cyber-consciousness of environmental assessment: how environmental assessments evaluate the impacts of smart, connected, and digital technology (John Mulrow1, Manasi Gali1 and Emily Grubert1) Published 22 December 2021 : https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac413b

• The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389921001884?via%3Dihub (2021, Lancet)

• Swarmpunk & Decentralized Infrastructures https://jon-e.net/dissertation/ (2023)

• How information and communication technology drives carbon emissions: A sector-level analysis for China https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140988319301288 (2019)

• Edit Wikipedia with Green Tech expertise https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/climate-crisis/wikipedia-has-a-climatetech-problem

• “Computing as Ecocide”, by Rob Comber and Elina Eriksson: https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/a8h46wqy/release/1

• The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence, Alex de Vries https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(23)00365-3 // Published:October 10, 2023

• Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

• Academic Journal on Degrowth (May 2023) https://www.degrowthjournal.org/issues/2023-volume-1/

• "A better knowledge is possible: transforming science and technology for pluralism, justice, and sustainability" Esther Turnhout as Chair of Science, Technology & Society, University of Twente: https://vimeo.com/760282599 & https://www.utwente.nl/en/academic-ceremonies/inaugural-lectures/booklets/booklets-2022-2023/inaugural-booklet-professor-esther-turnhout-14-october-2022.pdf
• “Resplendent care-full climate revolutions”, Farhana Sultana https://www.farhanasultana.com/wp-content/uploads/Sultana-Resplendent-Climate-Revolutions-2022.pdf
• “Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics” https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/handbook-of-critical-environmental-politics-9781839100666.html

Climate Justice

• Technologies for environmental justice https://www.apc.org/en/project/technology-environmental-justice-and-sustainability

• Data Feminism https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu

• “Political Demands”, by “Bits & Bäume 2022”
  • https://bits-und-baeume.org/assets/images/pdfs/Bits_und_Baeume_Political_Demands_english.pdf
  • https://bits-und-baeume.org/konferenz-2022/forderungen/#heading

• Digital Rights & Climate Justice: https://www.theengineroom.org/new-report-at-the-confluence-of-digital-rights-climate-justice/

• Digital Reset (2022) https://digitalization-for-sustainability.com/digital-reset/

• Learn: “Climate + Technology + Justice”, Liberal Studies at Duke https://liberalstudies.duke.edu/new-summer-2023-climate-technology-justice-designing-natures-futures

• “Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility” https://fiffkon.de/

• https://www.just-environments.org/the-syllabus

• Three Decades of Climate Mitigation: Why Haven't We Bent the Global Emissions Curve? https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104
  • High emitters (whether countries, organizations, or individuals) are often the least vulnerable, weakening direct incentives for action, while those least responsible for emissions often suffer the worst impacts.
  • Combustion of fossil fuels and large-scale land-use change have underpinned economic development over more than two centuries, creating deep path dependencies (not only economic but also material, social, cultural, and psychological).
  • Dominant economic and political interests are invested in the status quo and work hard against change.
  • Causes are also deeply embedded in wider economic and geopolitical divisions, including the historical backdrop of colonialism, imperialism, and other systemic injustices.

• “Computing as Ecocide”, by Rob Comber and Elina Eriksson: https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/a8h46wqy/release/1

Artivism

• Art: https://projekte.berlinergazette.de/after-extractivism/

• “To Our Friends” https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/our-friends

• we are nature defending itself -> https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745345871/we-are-nature-defending-itself/

• https://fossilfreeculture.nl/manifesto/

• https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-nature-is-healing/

• F*** O** Google / Invisible Committee

  - http://anarchistnews.org/content/invisible-committee-returns-fuck-google
  - http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/ex/digital-utopia.html
  - http://bloom0101.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/fuckoffgoogleeng.pdf

• https://anatomyof.ai

• climate protest playlist https://www.easterbrook.ca/steve/2023/06/climate-rocks/

• Piksel (No) Festival 2023 : Unveiling the Energy Crisis Through Art and Activism: ENERGY PARASITES
  • Parasitic approaches to energy and energy distribution; November 23rd-25th 2023 https://no.piksel.no/

Books

• The Rare Metals War The Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies, Guillaume Pitron https://www.nhbs.com/the-rare-metals-war-book
  • Podcast episode: https://greendreamer.com/podcast/guillaume-pitron-rare-metals-war

• "Critical Atlas of Dutch Data Centres" Acid Clouds https://acidclouds.org , Niels Schrader
  • Exhibition https://www.dezeen.com/2022/04/04/data-centres-power-house-exhibition/
  • Book https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/acid-clouds/246019/

• Data Farms: Circuits, Labour, Territory: edited by Tsvetelina Hristova, Brett Neilson and Ned Rossiter http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/data-farms/

Network Operations

• Telco infrastructure turned into virtual power plant, FINOG, November 2023: https://nog.fi/event/8/contributions/81/attachments/68/116/Elisa%20DES%20151123VVwebsite.pdf

• Green OSPF https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1084804516300662

• "Kilowatt hour per Gigabyte - How hungry is your network?" https://wiki.geant.org/display/SIGNOC/17th+SIG-NOC+meeting+-+Paris%2C+France :: How to best perform on energy optimisation of the network infrastructure? how could we reduce power consumption?

• Kubernetes Efficient Power Level Exporter (Kepler) https://sustainable-computing.io/
• Carbon-neutral self-hosting & software development: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/856
• Environmental sustainability at GitHub https://github.blog/2021-04-22-environmental-sustainability-github/
• Orange: Deep Sleep Mode for WiFi : slashes gateway power consumption to under 1W: “Sustainability in Broadband” webinar: https://app.livestorm.co/rethink-technology-research/faultline-webinar-series-2023-or-sustainability-in-broadband?type=detailed

• SubSee Cables Sustainability Map https://suboptic.org/page/sustainability-map

• Optimizing Power Consumption in High-End Routers (Juniper) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/optimizing-power-consumption-high-end-routers-sharada-yeluri/

• High Bandwidth Router Power Consumption & Cisco 8800 Power Provisioning https://xrdocs.io/8000/blogs/cisco-8800-power-provisioning/

• Paradox of Efficiency https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

• “Build a Sustainable, Carbon-Aware Cloud” Microsoft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7K7QkhWnFU, 1 May 2023
• Benchmark for sustainable software / FOSS Energy Efficiency Project https://eco.kde.org/handbook/
• Write “Open Source for Climate Tech”, IEEE https://engagestandards.ieee.org/sosh_free_webinar_series.html , 19 April 2023
• Legislate: Right to Repair: European Commission https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_1794, March 2023

• Make off-grid micro 'internet' on solar power for emergencies, camping, protests, or building community autonomy and dual power. https://open.substack.com/pub/anarchosolarpunk/p/offgridinternet

• “Server Infrastructure for Global Rebellion”, #36c3 https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11008-server_infrastructure_for_global_rebellion

• Emergency/peace response https://icanpeacework.org/2022/12/key-findings-ican-forum-2022/

• https://www.easst.net/article/the-environmental-footprint-of-social-media-hosting-tinkering-with-mastodon/

• https://blog.ltgt.net/climate-friendly-software/
• https://commonplace.doubleloop.net/reclaiming-the-stacks-ecosocialism-and-ict
• https://www.sgr.org.uk/events/science-superpower-or-techno-dead-end-what-would-globally-responsible-britain-look
• Environmental effects of digitization https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187734352300043X

• Adding sustainability to security recommendations / BCP: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZC6PBHOREbObHUgopAkPQbIWC_EgLQ8nDyDvULjCwd8/edit#heading=h.dqcyb9hlboc9

Data Centers

• https://amsterdameconomicboard.com/en/initiative/leap/
  • LEAP is a coalition of data centres, commercial end users, telecom providers, hardware suppliers, network organisations, universities and research centres, startups and governments in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area
  • National Coalition Sustainable Digitalisation (NCDD) https://coalitieduurzamedigitalisering.nl

• https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/amsterdamse-servers-stroomslurpers

• Large data centers are regulated on energy efficiency via the MJA, Long Term Agreements. MJA will end 1st of january 2021 and will be replaced by the EED. https://www.rvo.nl/onderwerpen/duurzaam-ondernemen/energie-besparen/europese-energie-efficiency-richtlijn-eed/energie-audit-eed

• Dutch Data Centers Association https://www.dutchdatacenters.nl

• Nanog, 2018: https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG74/1768/20181001_Barford_Keynote_Lightsout_Climate_v1.pdf

• “Data Centres Must Face Climate Change” https://labs.ripe.net/author/ggm/surviving-the-flood-how-data-centres-and-the-internet-must-face-climate-change/

• WEF Global Risk Report 2023 https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_Report_2023.pdf

• The making of critical data center art https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221149942

• “… the data centers (can) flood as the climate (chaos) encroaches, we can run out of the water to cool the data centers, the surveillance pipelines can melt as the climate becomes more erratic and less hospitable…” Meredith Whittaker, May 2023 https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

• Data Centers over-consumption of water, electricity, land
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJmACIrqj4 (Stroomnet, De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach) (2023)
  • https://www.akcp.com/blog/data-centers-coping-with-climate-change-induced-wildfires/
  • https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/why-data-centers-need-to-talk-about-water/
  • https://www.consultancy.uk/news/28772/10-ways-businesses-can-reduce-their-digital-carbon-footprint
  • https://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/2022/12/googles-water-use-is-soaring-in-the-dalles-records-show-with-two-more-data-centers-to-come.html
  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-drought-water-use/
  • https://www.newscientist.com/article/2354801-google-has-finally-revealed-how-much-water-its-data-centres-use/

• Dutch Protests against Data Centers
  • https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-netherlands-hyperscale-data-centers/
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiPoR9OvD0Y (Nederland als harde schijf | Zondag met Lubach) (2020)
  • https://youtu.be/lpQN32dXt10?t=218 (Datacentrum in Zeewolde | De Avondshow met Arjen Lubach) (2022)
  • https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2022/03/facebook-puts-zeewolde-data-centre-plan-on-hold-after-protests/

• Data Center outage costs ... http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2016/09/08/delta-data-center-outage-cost-us-150m/

• Energy-hungry data centers are quietly moving into cities: Companies are pushing more server farms into the hearts of population centers. By Michael Waters June 22, 2022 https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/22/1053889/city-server-farms-energy/

• Data Centers as Impermanent Infrastructures, Julia Velkova (University of Helsinki) 2019 https://culturemachine.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/VELKOVA.pdf

• April 2020 https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/data-centers-work-harder-sun-shines-wind-blows
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/06/why-irish-data-centre-boom-complicating-climate-efforts
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-04-01/how-much-water-do-google-data-centers-use-billions-of-gallons

• More links to older documents : https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Sustainability_.26_the_Internet

• “Environmental media” in the cloud: The making of critical data center art https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221149942

• https://data-feminism.mitpress.mit.edu
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/data-feminism-from-data-ethics-to-data-justice/

RIPE

• RIPE Meeting archives
  • “Internet Services and Energy Demand” https://ripe75.ripe.net/archives/video/154/
  • Scion https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/#mon11
  • Sustainable ICT Procurement and RIPE https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/#mon14
  • Towards a Fossil Free Internet, https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/751/
  • https://ripe85.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/Ethics-Environment-Equity-Empathy_Vesna.pdf
  • https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/877/
  • https://ripe86.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/Rudolf-van-der-Berg-Energy-consumption-of-the-Internet.pdf
  • Urgency, Degrowth, Rebellion https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1001/

• RIPE Labs: labs.ripe.net/sustainability
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/frugal-computing-for-a-sustainable-internet/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/max-schulze/its-growing-bringing-together-the-european-green-coding-and-software-communities/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/neil-mather/amazon-doesnt-care-how-you-heat-swimming-pools-ict-and-ecosocialism/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/wim-vanderbauwhede/the-climate-cost-of-the-ai-revolution/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/towards-climate-justice-in-tech/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/environmental-impact-of-internet-urgency-de-growth-rebellion/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/michael_oghia/it-hardware-as-a-service-business-model-innovation-as-a-pathway-to-circularity/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/michael_oghia/reduce-reuse-refurbish-dispelling-sustainability-myths-with-emxcore/
  • https://labs.ripe.net/author/michael_oghia/transparency-meets-sustainability-announcing-the-sdia-open-data-hub/
• Apnic: https://youtu.be/x5HwbtgBEEQ?t=3710

Measurements Tools

• https://climateactiontracker.org/
• https://en-roads.climateinteractive.org/

Mesh

• Community Networks: (many sources): https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet

• Alternative networks in Mexico, powered by Open Source SW, recycled HW & human need for connection -> https://www.rhizomatica.org/
  • & https://wiki.techinc.nl/Rhizomatica_Community_Telecommunications_Infrastructure

• Book: https://www.netcommons.eu/?q=telecommunications-reclaimed

• RFC: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7962

IETF documents

• Green Networking Metrics https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cx-green-metrics

• Challenges and Opportunities in Management for Green Networking https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cx-green-ps

• Sustainability Insights (Cisco) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-almprs-sustainability-insights/

• An Overview of Energy-related Effort within the IETF https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eckert-ietf-and-energy-overview/

• A Framework for Energy Aware Control Planes (Akamai/DT) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-retana-rtgwg-eacp/

• IVY working group:
  • Asset Lifecycle Management and Operations: A Problem Statement https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-palmero-ivy-ps-almo-00
  • A YANG model for Power Management (juniper) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-li-ivy-power-01

• TVR (Time-Variant Routing) Use Cases https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-tvr-use-cases/

• Workshop: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/e-impact/
  • & Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iab-ws-environmental-impacts-report/

• https://www.ietf.org/blog/towards-a-net-zero-ietf/

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/slides-113-gaia-the-internet-and-environmental-sustainability-revolutionary/

• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization/

• GAIA: https://irtf.org/gaia

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Smaller_IETF_118,_Prague_2023_-_Report_with_Pictures_.pdf

Other standards

• ITU https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-L/en
• ETSI https://www.etsi.org/committee/1395-ee
• IEEE https://sagroups.ieee.org/planetpositive2030/
• 3GPP https://hexa-x-ii.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Hexa-X-II_D1.1_final-website.pdf
• The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard https://ghgprotocol.org/corporate-standard
• Overview of existing standards https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-eimpact-overview-of-existing-standardization-work
• Tracking the standards: https://dnsrf.org/blog/internet-standards-observatory--selected-research-projects-on-internet-standards-and-fragmentation-announced/index.html
• OECD data explorer!! https://data-explorer.oecd.org/

SCION

• https://www.scion.org/scion
• SCION docs:
  • https://www.scion-architecture.net/
  • https://github.com/scionproto/scion
  • https://docs.scionlab.org/
• "Carbon-Aware Global Routing in Path-Aware Networks" https://netsec.ethz.ch/publications/papers/green_routing2023.pdf
• SCION - A Novel Internet Architecture, RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/author/hausheer/scion-a-novel-internet-architecture/
• scion & ietf
  • draft-dekater-panrg-scion-overview
  • draft-rustignoli-panrg-scion-components
  • draft-dekater-scion-pki
  • draft-dekater-scion-controlplane
  • draft-dekater-scion-dataplane

Internet Governance

• EuroDig 2023 https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Building_cross-stakeholder_awareness_and_understanding_of_the_direct_and_indirect_environmental_impacts_of_digital/Internet_technologies_and_how_to_mitigate_them_–_WS_04_2023

• EuroDig 2021 https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Greening_Internet_governance_–_Environmental_sustainability_and_digital_transformation_–_2020/2021
  • BIG LIST of LINKS https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Drowning_in_data_–_digital_pollution,_green_IT,_and_sustainable_access_–_WS_11_2017#Further_reading
  • Greening Internet Governance : https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Greening_Internet_governance_–_Environmental_sustainability_and_digital_transformation_–_PL_04_2020
    • https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Greening_Internet_Governance,_Part_II_–_Enabling_an_Environmentally_Sustainable_Digital_Transformation_in_Europe_–_FS_01_2021

• IGF 2023 “Climate change and Technology implementation” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eirpgX_U5EA

• https://labs.ripe.net/author/gergana_petrova/igf-2023-liveblog/

• PN-E https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/policy-network-on-environment-pne
• DC-E https://www.intgovforum.org/en/content/dynamic-coalition-on-environment-dce

• IPCC: AR6 Chapter 16, Innovation, Technology Development and Transfer https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_Chapter16.pdf

• SEEDIG “Sustainable Future” : "Twinning Green and Digital”: https://seedig.net/seedig7-sustainable-future/ (September 2021) (Video of the debate)

• EU
  • https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2020/12/17/digitalisation-for-the-benefit-of-the-environment-council-approves-conclusions/

• IGF
  • (many more links! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zqWvUplhGikjHyuhDEn8UdQCfigNeYf9S8CuSY7Mtig/edit )

• UN Fossil Fuels reporting: https://productiongap.org/2023report/

Podcasts

• https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation/e/18p1mlmn-community-clouds-and-energy-islands-with-dawn-nafus-and-laura-watts
• https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/frugal-computing-for-a-sustainable-internet/
• https://greendreamer.com/podcast/guillaume-pitron-rare-metals-war
• https://globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-green-prepping-for-climate-collapse/

Articles

• https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation/e/18p1mlmn-community-clouds-and-energy-islands-with-dawn-nafus-and-laura-watts (and podcast)
• https://themarkup.org/news/2023/07/06/ai-is-hurting-the-climate-in-a-number-of-non-obvious-ways
• https://montrealethics.ai/algorithms-as-social-ecological-technological-systems-an-environmental-justice-lens-on-algorithmic-audits/
• “Big business climate pledges must be measured” (audited) https://genevasolutions.news/climate-environment/peter-bakker-big-business-climate-pledges-must-be-measured
• “Ranking of ten leading telecom operators for sustainability.” : Sustainability Index by ABI Research (Q1 2022) https://www.abiresearch.com/press/deutsche-telekom-telefonica-vodafone-and-kpn-are-leaders-in-abi-researchs-telco-operators-sustainability-index/
• “How five of the world’s biggest telecom operators deal with their greenhouse gas emissions” (February 2023) * AT&T, Verizon, NTT, China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom. https://telecoms.com/opinion/how-five-of-the-worlds-biggest-operators-deal-with-their-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
• Carbon reporting regulations are rising globally. Small businesses need to keep up. https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/5fa28ad9-11b7-47e9-9926-913ff1f915ab
• A Telco Sustainability Reality Check: December 2022 https://go.abiresearch.com/lp-telco-sustainability-reality-check
• International Energy Agency: “align ICT with climate-based targets” https://www.iea.org/reports/data-centres-and-data-transmission-networks
• ITU in 2020: “reduce ICT GHG emissions by 45% by 2030” https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR04-2020-ICT-industry-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-by-45-percent-by-2030.aspx
• OECD report on “Climate Tipping Points”, December 2022 https://www.oecd.org/environment/climate-tipping-points-abc5a69e-en.htm

• Least Developed Countries https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/facts-figures-for-ldc/
• https://medium.com/@p.vonhellermann/the-tragedy-of-the-non-commons-4bfad884cdbe
• https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/down-to-earth-ipcc-emissions
• Red herrings https://www.salon.com/2023/05/13/how-big-oil-is-manipulating-the-way-you-think-about-climate-change/
• Planetary boundaries https://phys.org/news/2023-05-earth-unlivable-tide.html
• Techno Optimism https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/twelve-discourses-climate-delay-165920
• World Meteorological Organization: https://public.wmo.int/en/media/press-release/global-temperatures-set-reach-new-records-next-five-years
• https://www.uu.nl/en/news/stand-up-for-the-ocean-read-erik-van-sebilles-inaugural-lecture
• COP28 prognosis, Elizabeth Kolbert https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-road-to-dubai (paywall) & https://archive.is/BpGKv

DeGrowth

• Educational Resources about DeGrowth: https://degrowth.world/educational-resources
• “Not growing but thriving”: The Beginning of a Paradigm Shift (10 MAY 2023) https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/not-growing-but-thriving-the-beginning-of-a-paradigm-shift/
• Academic Journal on Degrowth (May 2023) : https://www.degrowthjournal.org/issues/2023-volume-1/
• Combatting climate change & #Polycrisis means embracing degrowth  https://climateactionaustralia.wordpress.com/2023/01/22/why-combatting-climate-change-means-embracing-degrowth-polycrisis/
• https://www.noemamag.com/degrowth-in-japan
• Ultimate measure of staying within planetary boundaries: Swiss example "2000 watt Society" https://newrepublic.com/article/168750/switzerland-cop27-2000-watt-society
• Degrowth can work — here’s how science can help: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x
• "Beyond Growth" conference https://www.beyond-growth-2023.eu
  • Report from "Beyond Growth" https://sflab.eecs.kth.se/pub/xjlo816a/release/4
• https://degrowth.info/en/blog/organising-the-degrowth-network
• 23 August 2023 New York Times: “Can Shrinking Be Good for Japan? A Marxist Best Seller Makes the Case https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/business/kohei-saito-degrowth-communism.html
• Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy https://libcom.org/article/karl-marxs-ecosocialism-capital-nature-and-unfinished-critique-political-economy
• To Save the Planet, Should We Really Be Moving Slower? The degrowth movement makes a comeback. By Bill McKibben July 5, 2023 https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/to-save-the-planet-should-we-really-be-moving-slower
• A Degrowth Perspective on Artificial Intelligence - Analysing the Appropriateness of Machine Learning to a Degrowth Context https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/622669
• BEYOND GROWTH DIALOGUE WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION: AN EXERCISE IN “DIPLOMATIC DEBUNKING” NICK MEYNEN·OCTOBER 4, 2023 https://meta.eeb.org/2023/10/04/beyond-growth-dialogue-with-the-european-commission-an-exercise-in-diplomatic-debunking/ (also: governance)
  • https://friendsoftheearth.eu/news/challenging-the-eu-commissions-post-growth-commitments/
• Book: exploring Degrowth https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745342023/exploring-degrowth/
• Article: Planned Degrowth: Ecosocialism and Sustainable Human Development, by John Bellamy Foster (Jul 01, 2023) https://monthlyreview.org/2023/07/01/planned-degrowth/
• CFP, 2024 : “a society beyond growth must learn how to articulate new imaginaries and redefine the relationship between society and the institutions of science, technology and innovation.“ https://esee-degrowth2024.uvigo.gal/en/the-conference/program/call-for-abstracts/
• The 9th International Degrowth Conference: "Planet, People, Care: It Spells Degrowth!" http://odrast.hr
  • http://odrast.hr/thematic-streams/#technology
  • Video: Recentering Decoloniality, Roland Ngam at odrast.hr in Zagreb: https://www.youtube.com/live/PeVt_cQwkTw?si=bkO2U21ekzJ3druV&t=709
  • Abstract: Kohei Saito: Marx meets Degrowth: On the Origin of Degrowth Communism https://zagreb.degrowth.net/en/9_int_dg_conf/public/events/397
  • Na Hrvatskom: "Dorucak na Travi" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVCL2ma_dWg
  • https://www.youtube.com/@ZagrebDegrowthConference
• “involvement of citizens and participatory democracy can overcome political divisions and create strong shared visions “ https://communitiesforfuture.org/launch-of-the-time-for-collective-action-manifesto-ecolises-main-policy-event-2023/
• MENA Women’s & Girls’ Demands for COP28 and Beyond https://womengenderclimate.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/WGC-MENADemands-ExecSumm.pdf

Disasters

• “decarbonize disaster response” : https://www.microgridknowledge.com/editors-choice/article/11427467/what-can-bees-teach-us-about-electric-reliability
• https://longdisaster.org : Nick Farr!
• https://justcollapse.org
• Towards the Development of an Anti-Colonial Critique of Climate and Disaster Risk Models https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/cgxo9mrd/release/2
• What could post-collapse computing be? https://msteenhagen.medium.com/what-could-post-collapse-computing-be-5711a9aa6111
• https://wiki.collapsible.systems/
• see: https://wiki.techinc.nl/MeshNet#Disaster_Recovery_Communications
• https://www.collapsemusings.com/collapse-resources/
• "The 2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory" https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biad080/7319571
  • File:supplemental file S1 - Ripple et al 10-23-23.pdf
  • the difficulty of decoupling economic growth from harmful environmental impacts
  • "We therefore need to change our -economy- Internet to a system that supports meeting basic needs for all people instead of excessive consumption by the wealthy" https://search.worldcat.org/title/8091027889

Personal Footprint

• Managing Your Digital Carbon Footprint (June 2022) https://archive.aweber.com/newsletter/awlist5696660
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Internet_Footprint_Dilemmas
• https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/click-clean/
• https://www.consultancy.uk/news/28772/10-ways-businesses-can-reduce-their-digital-carbon-footprint
• https://blog.arcadia.com/internet-carbon-footprint/
• https://escp.eu/events/escp-green-hackathon-digital-carbon-footprint
• https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/we-need-a-fossil-free-internet-by-2030/
• Detailed source & survey: https://www.appropedia.org/Digital_sustainability_guide_for_tech_practitioners

Educating Children

• a book: "Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities" https://nyupress.org/9781613321461/ecoart-in-action/

https://program.mch2022.org/mch2022/talk/AZVEA8/

• a "doomer" picture-book : Ms. Ladybug and Mr. Honeybee A Love Story at the End of Time by Guy R McPherson: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/guy-r-mcpherson/ms-ladybug-and-mr-honeybee-a-love-story-at-the-end-of-time/9781790592920

Alternative Computings

• https://counter-n.net
  • Junkyard Computing: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3575693.3575710 : Repurposing Discarded Smartphones to Minimize Carbon

• taxonomy: https://assets.pubpub.org/eg52sqwg/51623536420052.pdf
  • Convivial computing, Benign computing, Salvage computing,

• Collapse informatics,

• Alternative tech
  • Appropriate Technology, Slow-tech, Low-tech,

Frugal Computing

• https://limited.systems/articles/frugal-computing/
• https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/frugal-computing/
• podcast: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6230b87ec3fb6c0013f156c6/e/653f5ea08f6e5f001252b869/media.mp3
  • & article: https://labs.ripe.net/author/anastasiya-pak/frugal-computing-for-a-sustainable-internet/
• paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06642

Permacomupting

• https://permacomputing.net/
• https://permacomputing.net/permacomputing_in_the_arts/
• https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/permacomputing.html
• https://anarchosolarpunk.substack.com/p/postgrowthtech
• https://limits.pubpub.org/pub/6loh1eqi/release/1

Fossil Free Web

• https://www.openenvironmentaldata.org/storytelling/bm-fossil-free-internet#Feature-Section
• https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-3/we-need-a-fossil-free-internet-by-2030/
• https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2022/12/towards-a-fossil-free-internet
• https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/

Other Collections

• https://www.appropedia.org/
• https://wiki.collapsible.systems/
• https://alltechishuman.org/responsible-tech-organizations

Communities

• https://UnCiv.nl
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/eimpact/about/
• https://Rebellion.Global
• https://climatecultures.net/
• https://labs.ripe.net/nogs
• https://climateaction.tech/
• Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan

Mailing Lists

• e-impact https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/e-impact

• degrowth-world Subscribe: degrowth-world-subscribe@lists.riseup.net || https://lists.riseup.net/www/ - “to share announcements and news related to degrowth.”

• Green Screen: Subscribe: digital-rights-climate-justice+subscribe@groups.io :: “Digital Rights and Climate Justice Network” by Mozilla Foundation, Ford Foundation, Internet Society Foundation, Mercator Sti!ung, and Ariadne Network.

• “Just Sustainability Transition” https://groups.google.com/g/justsustainabilitytransitions/about
  • “to enable collaboration to deepen, translate and connect knowledge and practice on just sustainability transitions.”

• https://forum.ripe.net

- specifically: https://forum.ripe.net/t/degrowth-follow-up-from-ripe86-conference/490/2 new

• “Discussion and networking for ACM members and others interested in how the ACM can address the issue of climate change.” ** https://groups.google.com/g/acm-climate/about

• “discussion and exchange around the idea of permacomputing”
  • https://we.lurk.org/mailman3/lists/permacomputing.we.lurk.org/

• “IGF Session on Sustainability & Environment: 2023SustEnv-MS “
  • http://intgovforum.org/mailman/listinfo/2023sustenv-ms_intgovforum.org

• Computing Within Limits ( limits@googlegroups.com ) https://groups.google.com/g/limits

Organisations

• Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA) https://sdialliance.org

• Green Web Foundation : https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

• GNA: Global NOG Alliance : forming the "sustainability" WG
  • Work in Progress: https://pad.riseup.net/p/ripe-community-sustainability-working-group-keep

• NRO = all the RIRs

• https://digital.green.sharefoundation.info

• APC https://APC.org
  • https://www.apc.org/en/project/technology-environmental-justice-and-sustainability

• Scientists Rebellion https://rebelion.global

• https://climateaction.tech/

• Bits & Bäume

• ACM SIGCAS: association for computing machinery - special interest group on Computers and Society
  • https://www.sigcas.org/events/sigcas-showcase-2022/

• Degrowth-related: Degrowth Database https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Z7kTs0smhOU9S3DyGNJ_MBQeu3XKW2qdxa3unOEn6I/edit? usp=sharing

• GESI Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative https://gesi.org/public/platforms
  • Sustainability Assessment Framework https://sasframework.gesi.org
  • Responsible Minerals Initiative https://www.responsiblemineralsinitiative.org
  • Ecochain's Environmental Intelligence Platform https://ecochain.com

• En-Roads https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/ online simulator

• “Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility” https://fiffkon.de/

Events

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events2023
• RIPE87 in Rome
  • BoF https://ripe87.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/ Monday, 27 November 18:00 - 19:00 (UTC+1) Sustainable Networking: Where are we and where should we go? Romain Jacob
    • & Local Hubs!
• "green coding summit https://sdialliance.org/green-coding-summit/2023/
• COP28
• CCC congress! https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/index.en.html

• 2024
  • January, IAB workshop online: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/iab-workshop-on-barriers-to-internet-access-of-services-bias-2024/
  • Offdem, Brussels** https://oxygen.offdem.net
  • Fosdem Brussels
    • energy devroom https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2023q4/003495.html
    • minimalistic computing
  • https://www.easst4s2024.net/callforopenpanels/
  • https://2024.wons-conference.org
  • NFS Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePGjY-F80oh42cXkTvA1HKbMDL2OeAEBJGdD1q_-HyaxdD_w/viewform?usp=sf_link
  • Apricot
  • SEE-12, Athens, April 2024: https://ripe.net/see-12
  • 8-11 May 2024, Linz: AMRO: https://www.radical-openness.org/en/historyroots
  • 20-24 May RIPE88 Krakow!

Past Events

• https://ps.zoethical.org/t/technology-from-the-mines-to-e-waste/6591/1
• https://ps.zoethical.org/t/climate-justice-in-tech-environmental-sustainability-in-internet-infrastructure/6405
• https://ps.zoethical.org/t/the-green-tech-oxymoron/5395
• * THE DIGITAL GREEN SOCIETY Belgrade, Serbia, 14 - 16 May 2023 https://digital.green.sharefoundation.info
• HACKER LA TERRE 2023 | Calafou 1/06 - 4/06 https://hlt.calafou.org/en/
• https://www.wy4cj.org/events
• 30 – 31 March 2023 Trondheim, Norway: Environmental Ethics https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-6-nordic-environmental-ethics/
• 6 April, 15:00 CEST (online) : Greenbashing or Greenwashing: Examining Claims of Environmental Sustainability. https://events.exposingtheinvisible.org/eti/greenwashing/
• 13-14 April , 2023, "Critical Infrastructure Lab" launch event: at the University of Amsterdam https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
• 15-17 May - European Parliament Beyond Growth Pathways towards Sustainable Prosperity in the EU; Brussels (& online) https://www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/about-beyond-growth/
• 27 May: A12 Blockade, The Hague https://a12blokkade.nl
• 28. May - 01. June 2023 Rome, Italy: 2nd Int. Workshop on Green and Sustainable Networking (GreenNet 2023) Co-located with IEEE ICC https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-07-2nd-workshop-green-and-sustainable-networking-greennet-2023
• 14-15, 2023 June Computing within LIMITS’23 workshop: (online) https://computingwithinlimits.org/2023/.
• 16-17 Jun Bits und Baume Münster DE  : https://bits-und-baeume.org/en/
• Aug 29 – Sep 2 2023: 9th International Degrowth Conference, Zagreb http://odrast.hr/
• 14 September 2023: 10th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2023) https://wsf-10.sciforum.net/
• 12. November: https://klimaatmars.nl/en/home/

People

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Sustainability/people

Vesnas Links

Links to vesna's pages & data related to Sustainability (etc: BECHA @ unciv . nl ) 

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/AI_is_ecocide
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/ClimateJusticeDigitalRights2022
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Internet_Footprint_Dilemmas (7.7.'22)
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/InternetPlumbing/5G#0G
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Digital_Activism
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Digital_Safety
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/DigitalDisobedience
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Sustainability_.26_the_Internet

Slides

• File:Vesna IAB-BIAS-Workshop-Basic Internet And Squirrels.pdf

• File:Xs vesna Internet Governance Environmental Sustainbility ccc.pdf

• File:generic e-impact_Draft august 2023.pdf

• File:AI is Ecocide original PDF July 2023.pdf

• File:TBD 2023 Not a Camp ecocide SMALL.pdf

• File:xs-vesna-e_impact-ripe86-short-and-long.pdf

• File:smaller-LOCOS-seminar-march-2023-vesna.pdf

• File:vesna-ripe86-Environmental_Impact_of_Internet.pdf

• File:Internet Infrastrucutre and Climate Justice IAB-v2.pdf

• File:IAB-workshop-e-impact-societal-aspects-2.pdf

• File:draft-hr-nog-vesna-cats-planet-compressed.pdf

• File:BECHA Internet Infrastructure and Climate Justice IAB.pdf

• File:printout Towards Climate Justice in Tech - RIPE Labs.pdf

• File:NEW_CJxDR_opportunities_2.pdf

• File:Ethics-Environment-Equity-Empathy-ripe85.pdf

• File:Bits_und_Baume_Greening_RIPE copy-compressed.pdf

• File:vesna-green-internet-ripe_ncc-SIGCAS-compressed.pdf

Videos 

• 2023, RIPE86: Urgency, DeGrowth, Rebellion: https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1001/
• 2022: Bits & Bäume: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3biQwhR3fPU&list=PLJD5uaec7bwyDUPN7VJOHiEzcAYd2x9XS&index=4
• 2022: RIPE85 pre-event: Ethics, Environment, Equity, Empathy https://www-static.ripe.net/static/videos/misc/RIPE-85-StudentEvent.mp4 (0:36:20)
• July 2022, MCH2022: Computing Within Limits @ emergent.earth, Community session: https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-442-computing-within-limits

Articles

• June 2023: "Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, De-Growth, Rebellion" https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/environmental-impact-of-internet-urgency-de-growth-rebellion/

2022

• December: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/a-plea-for-climate-justice-report-from-the-iab-workshop-on-e-impact/
• October: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/towards-climate-justice-in-tech/
• July: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/computing-within-limits-2022-event-wrap/
• April: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/spring-and-summer-events-season-2022/
• February: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/green-tech-2021-compilation/

Posts

• Against Techno Optimism, nettime: https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-2310/msg00087.html

Other Pages

• File:tech-community-sustainability-working-group-Pad.pdf
• File:Environmental Impact of the Internet Marvin June 2023.pdf
• GNA: Work in Progress: https://cloud.nogalliance.org/s/N5rXyopWwfkiepT
• November 2014: Nature will have the last word, on Future of Technology, RIPE69 https://wiki.techinc.nl/index.php/File:Nature-speaking-on-future_of_the_internet-RIPE69.pdf