Sustainability

Sustainability in Tech, Yet Another Collection of Links

Documentation

Papers

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

• 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/

Climate Justice

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

• “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

• 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

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

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

• https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-011104

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

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

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

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

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/

Network Operations

• 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

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/

RIPE

• https://ripe81.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/bof/#mon14
• https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/751/
• https://ripe85.ripe.net/archives/video/877/
• 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/

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/

• 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

ITU standards

• https://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-L/en

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

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

• https://eurodigwiki.org/wiki/Greening_Internet_governance_–_Environmental_sustainability_and_digital_transformation_–_2020/2021

Articles

• 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

DeGrowth

• https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/not-growing-but-thriving-the-beginning-of-a-paradigm-shift/
• Academic Journal on Degrowth (May 2023) : feminist, anarchist, decolonial views https://www.degrowthjournal.org/issues/2023-volume-1/
• 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
• 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

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.”

• Trans*Feminist Counter Cloud Action: https://titipi.org/wiki/index.php/Counter_Cloud_Action_Plan Climate Cultures: https://climatecultures.net

• 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

Events

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/events2023
  • RIPE87 in Rome
  • "green coding summit"https://sdialliance.org/green-coding-summit/2023/
  • CCC congress!https://content.events.ccc.de/cfp/37c3/index.en.html

• 2024
  • 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
  • May 2024, Linz: AMRO: https://www.radical-openness.org/en/historyroots
  • RIPE88 is in May 2024 in Krakow!

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

Slides

• File:Environmental Impact of the Internet Marvin June 2023.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/