Sustainability

Sustainability in Tech, Yet Another Collection of Links

Topics

Artivism

Art & Activism 

• 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/

• 2024, transmediale: https://vado.li/anticolonialtech

• February 2024: ORCA zine 1 ("Organised students for Radical Climate Action") : “From shallow waters to the deepest oceans” File:ORCA zine printing version2.pdf

Climate Justice

• "Climate change is a human rights issue, European court rules" (April 2024) https://www.echr.coe.int/w/grand-chamber-rulings-in-the-climate-change-cases & https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/04/climate-change-is-a-human-rights-issue-european-court-rules/

• 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

• https://www.wbgu.de/en/publications/publication/towards-our-common-digital-future

• iEEE: Energy Equity and Energy Justice in Power Systems https://ieee-pes.org/trending-tech/energy-equity-and-energy-justice-in-power-systems/

• Tech, Feudalism, Labor, Politics, Capitalism, Economy, Marxism: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/category/books/technofeudalism-what-killed-capitalism/

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

• Ams-IX "We want to give sustainability a more prominent role in our decision making." https://www.ams-ix.net/ams/news/upgrades-at-ams-ix-result-in-85-power-reduction

• 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 : 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
• 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://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

• A Survey on Energy Consumption and Environmental Impact of Video Streaming https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09854

• how not to do it (article from 2016, about containers...) https://web.archive.org/web/20160917140244/https://circleci.com/blog/its-the-future/

Cloud

see: Data Centers 

Data Centers

• French regulator March 2024 report: https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/the-environement-210324.html
• Report about Equinix (2024) https://hindenburgresearch.com/equinix/
• "Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in the EU" (2024-02-16), (by European Commission's Joint Research Centre) https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135926
• The Cloud Is Material: On the Environmental Impacts of Computation and Data Storage (2022) https://mit-serc.pubpub.org/pub/the-cloud-is-material/release/2
• Getting into Fight with Data Centres: https://emmlab.info/Resources_page/Data%20Center%20Fights_digital.pdf
• "AI is fueling a data center boom. It must be stopped., by Paris Marx Feb 9, 2024 https://disconnect.blog/ai-is-fueling-a-data-center-boom/
• 2024 toots:
  • The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.
  • Denmark: @jowek@autonomous.zone “the reason of the data centers in denmark, in this case facebook in the city of Odense is: 
1)stable energy source 1.a) with high level of renewables. 2) Proximity to the backbone cables 3) Skilled workforce in the construction process (though the proces was run in a way, were there was a high level of control, and very little trust in the skilled workers..., so maybe thats a stretch) 
4) low levels of naturcatastrophes (erathqueakes etc.)
5) stable water source . The reason are laws regulating the area, so the potential expenditure from reusing the heated water, may never affect the prices. So, as i understand it, prices should be kept as low as possible and be on marketlevel and competitive, and saved energy for an economic cost is not a argument to raise prices. So the situation is that facebook have som semi-heated water, that needs further heating to be usable to send to homes, so it in reality it wont be free heating, there still needs to be heated on the water, so the result from an economic perspective is that there is no businesscase for the investment, which means it will be an expenditure in the short run, which means its not legal - even though it makes sense purely energy wise/ reality. The result is that the laws are maybe good intetions, but in a situation where investments and innovation is need, they dont make sense. And the article describe that they are rightly critized for that. 
The question is the if facebook knew that, and speculated in it, and/or in the proces has acted in a way so it would be the end result; to be stopped by those laws. 
And thats an analysis that needs to be made and documented, if so. 
But:heating was promised before, and heating is not now. 2020/Before:
computerworld.dk/art/252732/fa...
"Our datacenter in Odense will generate heat at a level not reached anywhere in the world"
tech.facebook.com/engineering/...
fyens.dk/forside/facebook-bekr...
"Facebook confirms:heat on its way to 6900 houses in odense". Now: no heating: https://www.tv2fyn.dk/odense/dyrere-fjernvarme-fjernvarme-fyn-frygter-at-prisloft-saetter-en-prop-i-odenses-facebook-varme “
• https://disconnect.blog/how-to-stop-a-data-center/
• https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-begins-data-center-and-district-heating-expansion-odense-denmark/

• Energy Consumption of Datacenters (ccc, 2023)
  • https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events/11796.html
  • https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11796-energy_consumption_of_datacenters (&AI)
• 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/

• Adaptive Resource Allocation for Datacenter Power Capping (2023) https://haoran-qiu.com/pdf/ml4sys23-parm.pdf

DeGrowth

• https://degrowth.net/ = International Degrowth Network (IDN)
• https://degrowthtoolbox.net/
• https://degrowth.world/educational-resources Educational Resources
• https://theecologist.org/2024/feb/08/degrowth-everywhere
• “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/
• 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
• Japan
  • 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
  • ‘Degrowth’ — Marxism is back for the modern age https://archive.md/2022.11.14-235428/https://www.ft.com/content/b1a505ac-c36f-4b4d-9ab0-6f5d9d0e185d
  • https://www.noemamag.com/degrowth-in-japan
• 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
  • https://www.youtube.com/@ZagrebDegrowthConference
  • 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://seecheck.org/index.php/2023/10/19/what-is-actually-degrowth/
  • February 2024: Vesna's Impressions from DeGrowth Conference in Zagreb, August 2023 File:9th DeGrowth Conference Zagreb August 2023 February 2024.pdf

• “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
• https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/12/17/degrowth-economics-europe-climate-policy/
• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04029-8 "To build a better world, stop chasing economic growth"
  • The year 2024 must be a turning point for shifting policies away from GDP (gross domestic product) and towards sustainable well-being. Here’s why and how.
• https://monthlyreview.org/2017/11/01/the-long-ecological-revolution/
• JASON HICKEL, 2019: https://jacobin.com/2019/02/steven-pinker-global-poverty-neoliberalism-progress
• Tempest, is an interview on degrowth. https://www.tempestmag.org/2023/08/the-politics-of-degrowth/
• Truthout, engages with some recent debating points on degrowth. https://truthout.org/articles/degrowthers-gain-support-as-planet-cooks-can-they-ally-with-green-new-dealers/
• https://www.postwachstum.de/degrowth-in-the-netherlands-an-overview-20201008
• Exploring degrowth policy proposals: A systematic mapping with thematic synthesis https://zagreb.degrowth.net/system/event_attachments/attachments/000/000/005/original/2022_Fitzpatrick_et_al_-_FINAL.pdf?1673078360
• paper: January 2023: HAS THE ECONOMY OUTGROWN THE PLANET? An Introduction to Degrowth https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368531755_Has_the_Economy_Outgrown_the_Planet_An_Introduction_to_Degrowth
• Anarchy / anarchism & degrowth https://esee-degrowth2024.uvigo.gal/en/ss23-anarchy-degrowth/
• June 2024: Keynote at ICT4S Conference in Stockholm by Neil Selwyn , Monash University, Australia
  • The case for digital degrowth: It is increasingly argued that we are approaching the point of ‘peak digital’, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability. In this talk, Neil Selwyn explores how degrowth thinking and alternate forms of ‘radically sustainable computing’ might support ambitions of sustainable, scaled-down and equitable ways of living with digital technologies. Drawing on the latest thinking from across the social sciences, ecological economics, political ecology, environmental justice, and computer sciences, Neil argues that degrowth thinking offers a compelling basis from which to completely rethink our digital futures in these fast-changing times.
  • https://conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-2024/ict4s-2024-keynotes?

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
• Businesses / SME: https://amsterdam.impacthub.net/embracing-sustainability-at-heart/

Corporate Footprint

• What are scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG emissions? "Burn, Buy, Beyond." https://www.sustain.life/blog/scope-emissions
  • Scope 1 emissions – direct emissions from sources owned or controlled by a company
  • Scope 2 emissions – indirect emissions from purchased electricity, steam, heat, and cooling
  • Scope 3 emissions – all other emissions associated with a company’s activities
• https://www.globalreporting.org
• https://txt.mro.name/36c3/36c3-lightning-talk-sustain-it.pdf

Education

Informal Education

• RIPE Webinars for students
  • "Understanding the Internet" (including "Equity, Ethics and the Environmental Sustainability of the Internet" lecture), October 2022 https://ripe85.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/student-event/

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

University Courses

• reading list of seminar in "Sustainable Networking" https://seminar-net.ethz.ch/ (syllabus / curriculum)
  • The Networked Systems Group (NSG) is a research group in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) at ETH Zürich

• "Low carbon and sustainable computing", Glasgow https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/research/researchthemes/lowcarbon/

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

• https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2023/10/advanced-computing-in-civil-and-environmental-engineering/

• Computing and the Environment syllabus: http://homes.sice.indiana.edu/nensmeng/files/syllabi/I609-syllabus-2018f.pdf

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

Documentation

Collections in different formats 

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

• AI & Climate (2023) https://ainowinstitute.org/spotlight/climate

• 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
• Andrew A. Chien in "Communications of the ACM" , July 2023: "GenAI: Giga$$$, TeraWatt-Hours, and GigaTons of CO2" https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3606254

• GOSPF: An energy efficient implementation of the OSPF routing protocol https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.00035

• Carbon-Aware Global Routing in Path-Aware Networks (SCION) https://netsec.ethz.ch/publications/papers/green_routing2023.pdf

• Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing (Sawsan) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3629165

Books

(see also other items makers "book" on this page!) (& images :) )

• "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/

• Survival guide for climate negotiators! 100 pages PDF File:on-behalf-my-delegation-second-edition.pdf https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2023-11/on-behalf-my-delegation-second-edition.pdf

• "A Climate Agenda for System Change: From Theory to Social Transformation" https://mayflybooks.org/climate-agenda-for-system-change/ (PDF available)

• "Anti-Fascist AI" Dan McQuillan; Bristol University Press, Year: 2022; ISBN: 1529213495,9781529213492

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/
  • by Rudolf van der Berg," Energy consumption of the Internet": https://ripe86.ripe.net/programme/parallel-events/student-event/ & https://ripe86.ripe.net/wp-content/uploads/Rudolf-van-der-Berg-Energy-consumption-of-the-Internet.pdf
  • The Environmental Impact of Internet: Urgency, Degrowth, Rebellion https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1001/ by Vesna Manojlovic
  • https://ripe87.ripe.net/archives/video/1143/ Romain Jacob - The Internet of Tomorrow Must Sleep More and Grow Old
  • https://ripe87.ripe.net/archives/video/1151/ Sustainable Networking: Where are we and where should we go

• 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
• About RIPE & IETF, by Chris Adams: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/a-brief-update-on-working-with-ripe-ncc-and-the-ietf-for-a-greener-internet/

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

• WIKI: https://wiki.ietf.org/en/group/E-IMPACT_environmental_impacts_of_the_Internet/home

• 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 || * https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-nmrg-green-ps/

• Sustainability Insights
  • (Cisco) https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-almprs-sustainability-insights/
  • NEW!!! https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cparsk-eimpact-sustainability-considerations

• 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

• IETF 118: https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Smaller_IETF_118,_Prague_2023_-_Report_with_Pictures_.pdf
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-eimpact-lightening-talk-beyond-carbon
  • https://github.com/mallory/draft-beyond-carbon
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-almprs-sustainability-insights/
  • https://github.com/cisco-open/green-monitoring/tree/main
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/agenda-118-eimpact-02
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-nmrg-challenges-and-opportunities-in-management-for-green-networking-draft-nmrg-green-ps-01
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-eimpact-infrastructure-sharing
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-almprs-sustainability-insights/
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-opsawg-poweff/
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/materials/slides-118-opsawg-sessb-sustainability-insights-and-poweff
  • https://github.com/cpignata/e-impact/blob/main/ietf118/materials/slides-118-eimpact-benchmarking-00.pdf
  • Slides from the "side meeting" with interesting use cases File:IETF118_SideMeeting_SustainabilityInsights.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
• 5G https://opennetworking.org/sustainable-5g/
• 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/
• W3C: 2024: "making sustainability a new key aspect and goal of web standards" https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/mapping-key-themes-for-the-year/

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

• "Energy Consumption in Data Centres and Broadband Communication Networks in the EU" (2024-02-16), (by European Commission's Joint Research Centre) https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135926

• “The central role of climate action in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals” by Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47746-w.

• GSMA "2024: State of the Industry on Climate Action" https://www.gsma.com/betterfuture/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mobile-Net-Zero-2024-State-of-the-Industry-on-Climate-Action.pdf

• GDC:
  • https://www.un.org/techenvoy/sites/www.un.org.techenvoy/files/Global_Digital_Compact_Zero_Draft.pdf
  • https://internet.exchangepoint.tech/internet-governance-roadmap-2024/
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2024-iab-07/materials/slides-interim-2024-iab-07-sessa-internet-governance-now-00
  • https://www.apc.org/en/news/bringing-gender-justice-lens-uns-global-digital-compact

• 2024, March ICANN79: IG & SDG: https://icann79.sched.com/event/1a1DE/at-large-plenary-session-1-internet-governance-for-the-sustainable-development-goals

• 2024 , February EURALO: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=303202361
  • https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Vesna-euralo-SDG-2024.pdf

• 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

• IGF
  • 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
  • (many more links! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zqWvUplhGikjHyuhDEn8UdQCfigNeYf9S8CuSY7Mtig/edit )
• map of generic IGF activities https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1EuEXQydkeObVIjYnaeiwu255RBM&ll=39.29249181827637%2C24.626041637499945&z=4

• 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

• 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/

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

• GIS 2010! Global InformatIon SocIety Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and environmental sustainability https://www.giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gisw2010_en.pdf

Podcasts

• https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-04-10/crazy-town-episode-83-escaping-speedism/
  • "Consult your inner tortoise to find novel ways of slowing down and living the good life. In a world haunted by just-in-time delivery, hyperactive business, accelerating environmental calamities, and metric tons of stress, Jason, Rob, and Asher work at a fast and furious pace to savor the moments, because there aren't many left."
• 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/
• list of podcasts: https://www.cindykohtala.fi/2023/12/02/growing-the-future/
• "Can Electronics Become Compostable? Liisa Hakola and Finland’s contributions to Europe’s sustainable electronics program" https://spectrum.ieee.org/boosting-electronics-sustainability

Videos

• 37c3: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events.html#sustainability%20&%20climate%20justice
  • https://media.ccc.de/b/congress/2023
• electronics/ecologies series of talks : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLE_y90GftjpaX_vV7Q5QHOSmhJa0DEmB0&si=hfkHe9BWWFfUKRJH
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-HZ-mlVWQI Corinne Cath - Can environmental activists participate in Internet governance?

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
  • greenwashing https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/08/companies/mckinsey-climate-change-whistleblowers/
  • https://progressive.international/wire/2023-12-15-pi-briefing-no-50-cop-out/en
  • https://www.disinfo.eu/disinfo-update-12-12-2023/
  • https://www.newsweek.com/climate-summit-sick-joke-you-should-angry-afraid-opinion-1848719
  • https://www.politico.eu/article/the-u-k-s-cop28-identity-crisis/
  • https://www.politico.eu/article/cop28-agenda-global-warming-climate-change-paris-agreement-pledges-united-states-uae-island-nations-china-g77-european-union-sauidi-arabia-russia-india/
  • https://hillheat.news/p/embracing-the-pain
  • https://theclimatehistorian.substack.com/p/headlines-from-a-warming-world-no9
• https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/
• ISOC Foundation has been funding “Greening the Internet” projects since 2021.
  • 2023 - https://www.isocfoundation.org/2024/01/announcing-our-2023-research-grantee-cohort-14-projects-examining-the-future-of-the-internet/
  • 2022 - https://www.isocfoundation.org/2023/02/announcing-our-2022-research-grantee-cohort/
  • 2021 - Multiple stories: https://www.isocfoundation.org/2021/04/five-questions-with-dr-chomora-mikeka-greening-the-internet-research-programme-grantee/ and https://www.isocfoundation.org/2021/08/the-future-of-e-waste-in-africa/
• https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/04/16/stack-map-of-the-world/ "Lithium salts for the people!"

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/

Sustainable Software

• "A Plea for Lean Software", Niklaus Wirth, 1995 https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
• https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/
• Carbon-neutral software development: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Community/issues/856
• 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
• Climate-friendly software: don't fight the wrong battle (2023) https://blog.ltgt.net/climate-friendly-software/
• https://labs.ripe.net/author/max-schulze/its-growing-bringing-together-the-european-green-coding-and-software-communities/
• https://greensoftware.foundation
• Microsoft & Green Software, Chris Adams, 2022: https://bit.ly/greenweb-microclimates
• https://github.com/climateaction-tech/grid-aware-software/
• (monetary) value of open source sw https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4693148
• Post-growth Human–Computer Interaction https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3624981

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

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

• Uncivilisation https://lists.puscii.nl/wws/info/uncivilization

• 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

• https://oxygen.offdem.net

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/

Funding

• https://www.sidnfonds.nl/internet-sustainability-call
• https://nlnet.nl/
• https://www.isocfoundation.org/grant-programme/research-grant-programme/
• https://insuresilience-solutions-fund.org/call-for-proposals
• https://allianzfoundation.org/allianz-foundation-grants-program-2024/

Events

2024

global: https://blog.felixdodds.net/2023/12/key-sustainability-dates-for-2024.html 

academic: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=IUSDRP;3193448c.2401

Dutch: https://coalitieduurzamedigitalisering.nl/agenda/ 

• January, IAB workshop online: https://www.iab.org/activities/workshops/iab-workshop-on-barriers-to-internet-access-of-services-bias-2024/
  • & my proposal: https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:Vesna_IAB-BIAS-Workshop-Basic_Internet_And_Squirrels.pdf
  • Benign Internet And Sustainability File:IAB BIAS Workshop-Benign Internet And Sustainability.pdf
• 24.1. https://radar.squat.net/en/event/amsterdam/fort-van-sjakoo-boekhandel/2024-01-25/bookpresentation-we-are-nature-defending
• Offdem, Brussels https://oxygen.offdem.net
• Fosdem Brussels
  • energy devroom https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2023q4/003495.html
  • minimalistic computing
• (art) -> 15.2. https://brakkegrond.nl/agenda/588/motherhood-in-de-kunst
• 13.2. (online) EURALO round table SDG
• 15-16.2. (online) e-impact, IETF
• 23-25.February https://www.2dh5.nl/en/
• 5.3. (Amsterdam), AI / ISOC
• 7.3. Willem De Kooning Academy, Rotterdam: "Traces of Power" https://top.permacomputing.net
• 21-23 March (Amsterdam) Sustainability KNAW https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/2024/03/sustainable-digitalisation-in-europe.html
• March 19-20 https://fediforum.org/
• March 22nd-24th 2024 in Vienna : Power to the People Conference: https://www.powertothepeople.at/
•  ? NFS Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability ?
• Apricot
• 22 April from 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST / 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM GMT UNTAPPED: Collective Intelligence for Climate Action on Earth Day, https://undp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SQL1J7Y5TGCyviHVBXga2Q#/registration
• SEE-12, Athens, April 2024: https://ripe.net/see-12
• 10-12. April, Education & Sustainability, Berlin https://www.tu.berlin/en/km/n-zertifikat/tins-d-education/democracy-in-engineering-education-sefi-spring-school-2024
• 8-11 May 2024, Linz: AMRO: https://www.radical-openness.org/
• 13-15. May, Austria (Vienna?) https://www.beyondgrowth.at
• 20-24 May RIPE88 Krakow ripe88.ripe.net
• 27-29.5. Berlin, re:publica https://re-publica.com/en
• 4–6 June 2024 | Turku, Finland : The 16th NESS - Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference
• 5-9 June in Berlin, Germany: At the Heart of Code: /etc https://www.eclectictechcarnival.org
• June 9-12 TU Berlin https://whatworksclimate.solutions/
• 13-14.6, Berlin, training https://whatworksclimate.solutions/training/
• 18-19.6. Computing Within Limits online
• 20.6. EuroDIG: 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
• 24-28.6. ICT4S 2024 Stockholm https://conf.researchr.org/track/ict4s-2024/ict4s-2024-ict4s-24-zine
• 2-5.July , Berlin: IKEM academy
• 5-6-7 July 2024 : [tbd] NOTACAMP 2024 ADM (Het Groeneveld) Amsterdam https://tbd.camp
• 9 July, 2024 online & USA: https://hotcarbon.org/
• 10 - 4th July 2024 in South Tyrol, Italy: By Design and by Disaster
• 15 – 25 July 2024: Hackers & Designers summer camp, NL https://www.hackersanddesigners.nl/open-call-hdsc2024-unruly-currents-everyday-piracy
• 16 – 19 July 2024 Amsterdam: https://www.easst4s2024.net/callforopenpanels/
• 17th - 24th of July 2024 Danish island of Funen : https://bornhack.dk/bornhack-2024/
• 22-28th July 2024. Velebit , Croatia: Electric Wonderland, https://radiona.org/early-bird-call-for-electric-wonderland-2024-is-launched/
• 28 July – 3 August 2024 , Summer Hacking Camp @ Soča, Slovenia https://pif.camp

• August 20-25, Ängsbacka, Sweden, EcoVillages Gathering https://ecovillagegathering.org/2024-home/

• 5-6 September , ~Vienna -> rIoT summit & hackathon -> https://summit.riot-os.org/2024/
• 11-13 September, Dubrovnik: academic / SEE
• 16-18 Sep Open Source Summit EU , Vienna
• 20-22 Sep BalCCoN, Novi Sad, Serbia https://2k24.balccon.org/
• 27-29 September , Digital Rights Community Global Gathering (GG), in Estoril, Portugal!! https://www.digitalrights.community/blog/2024-global-gathering-now-accepting-applications

• 4-9. October, island of Vis, ISSA (Island School of Social Autonomy) https://issa-school.org
• 10-11. October, Hasselt, Belgium: 2ND TRANSATLANTIC SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION https://www.haw-hamburg.de/en/ftz-nk/events/translate-to-english-hasselt2024/.
• 25.-27. October https://2024.fiffkon.de in Bremerhaven / Germany.
• 28.October - 1. November, Prague, RIPE89 ripe89.ripe.net

• November, Dublin: IETF121

• GreenIO : Paris, December 4-5, 2024 -> The most comprehensive program combining experts and use-cases worldwide. Check the line-up and get early bird tickets - until September 4th
• December 27-30, CCC

Past Events

• RIPE87 in Rome (2023)
  • 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 (2023)
• CCC congress! https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/index.en.html
• 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/
• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events2023

People

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

News

• https://extinctionrebellion.uk/2023/11/29/extinction-rebellion-uk-position-on-cop-28/

   UN, 2023 likely hottest year on record; further spike expected with El Niño, 8 Nov 2023
   BBC News, COP28: UAE planned to use climate talks to make oil deals, 27 Nov 2023 
   Guardian, Cop28 host UAE has world’s biggest climate-busting oil plans, data indicates, 15 Nov 2023 
   Guardian, ‘Insanity’: petrostates planning huge expansion of fossil fuels, says UN report, 8 Nov 2023
   COP28 website
   Global Witness, 636 fossil fuel lobbyists granted access to COP27, 10 Nov 2022
   BBC News, COP26: Alok Sharma fights back tears as Glasgow Climate Pact agreed, 13 Nov 2021
   Guardian, Dismay as Rishi Sunak vows to ‘max out’ UK fossil fuel reserves, 31 July 2023
   Reuters, Reaction to PM Sunak watering down Britain's climate goals, 20 Sept 2023 
   Guardian, UK absent from key international statement on climate action, 20 Sept 2023

Vesnas Links

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

RIPE list 2024

• RIPE-list mailing list monthly posts:
  • https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-May/003212.html
  • https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-April/003177.html
  • https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-March/003163.html
  • https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-February/003153.html
  • https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/2024-January/003122.html

Wiki Pages

Wiki Pages 

• 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 / Papers 

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/File:9th_DeGrowth_Conference_Zagreb_August_2023_February_2024.pdf

• BIAS: Benign Internet And Sustainability File:IAB_BIAS_Workshop-Benign_Internet_And_Sustainability.pdf

• 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

• https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/ai-climate-change-what-role-paris-targets-2023-09
• Computing Within Limits 2023, report: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/computing-within-limits-2023/
• 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/rF73mZAX9rZ7baM
• 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

• File:ngi-grant-Proposal Greening IETF protocols.pdf December 2023