Internet Footprint Dilemmas

Internet Footprint Dilemmas
Date	2022/07/07
Time	7PM
Location	TechInc
Type	Meeting
Contact	User:Becha

Internet’s Footprint Dilemmas

Climate Garden meets Technologia Incognita: Internet’s Footprint Dilemmas

In cooperation between KasKantine and RIPE Community, hosted by a hackerspace in (h)ACTA, we will explore questions of:

• digital development’s impact on the planet: how much pollution, extraction and consumption is possible within planetary limits;
• carbon footprint, water/energy/minerals consumption, e-waste
• what benefits of digitalisation are justified - compared to older, more traditional ways of communication.
• possible (partial) solutions such as low-tech, reduce/reuse/recycle practices, policies within Internet Governance, and political actions.

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Practical details

When & Where

• When: 7.7. at 7PM (Thursday)
• Where: TechInc : (h)ACTA Broedplaats:
  • Address: Louwesweg 1, Amsterdam ; first floor; call the phone number on the door to be let in!
• What: Discussion & drinks (free tea, other drinks available to buy)
• Who: hackers, gardeners, activists, people passionate about climate change issues, techies, artists, parents, youth, refugees welcome
• Structure: short intro, topic expertise, Q&A, group discussion, calls to action = next steps

Who

• Organisers: Vesna & Betty
• Facilitators: Vesna & Betty
• Guests:

Register

• you can also just SHOW UP
• if you do want to register, please use Meetup pages: either by Climate Cafe [LINK] or by Technology Incloginta [LINK]

Promote

• If you want to invite your friends, please share these links:

https://wiki.techinc.nl/Internet_Footprint_Dilemmas

Background material

Fundamental

• "Towards a Fossil Free Internet", Chris Adams (May 2022) https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/video/751/ (Video & slides)

• Managing Your Digital Carbon Footprint (June 2022) https://archive.aweber.com/newsletter/awlist5696660

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

Additional

• Resources about “Technology and Climate”, “Nature and Technology” -> part of Vesna's article “Nature is Healing”, a series on RIPE Community Resilience: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/ripe-community-resilience-nature-is-healing/ (May 2021)

• Review of Green Tech events in RIPE Community’s adjacent field: https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/green-tech-2021-compilation/

• https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/fighting-climate-chaos/click-clean/

• Video "Ethics in Technology", second part of my talk at SHA2017 (hackers camping conference) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDfkQo0DOYo

• Proposal for a talk "Greening RIPE" at Bits & Bäume , by ccc in Berlin in October 2022: https://pretalx.com/bitsundbaeume/talk/review/D97G37WXEQYKVWUNZ7CZFPUMKB8RF9UJ

• 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/

• TNI:
  • https://longreads.tni.org/digital-ecosocialism
  • https://www.tni.org/en/publication/from-solar-dream-to-legal-nightmare
  • https://www.tni.org/en/article/call-for-essays-on-digital-power-for-state-of-power-2023
  • (Militarism, for Betty! https://www.tni.org/en/article/the-climate-security-agenda-is-more-about-strengthening-military-power-than-tackling-climate)

Protocols

• Emile Aben https://github.com/emileaben/internet-energy-model/blob/main/draft.md

• Scion https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/internet-carbon-emissions-data-path-scion/

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Sustainability_.26_the_Internet

Academic

• June 2022: Computing Within Limits 2022 https://computingwithinlimits.org/2022/
  • papers: https://limits.pubpub.org

• December 2021: 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

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988319301288

• 2021, Lancet: 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

Tools

• Simulator https://www.climateinteractive.org/en-roads/

• Detailed source & survey: https://www.appropedia.org/Digital_sustainability_guide_for_tech_practitioners

Activism

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Activism

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/User:Becha/DigitalDisobedience

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Internet_and_Capitalism

Beyond Humans

• https://beyondtech.us/blogs/beyond-blog/51616769-optical-fiber-worst-nightmares-halloween-special

• https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Squirrels_against_technology

• https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/Speaker_for_Squirrels-GogBot-2016.pdf

Nature Defending Itself

• Draught -> no water for data centres cooling

Energy shortage :

• Draught -> no water for nuclear power plants cooling
• Draught -> no ships can carry coal for powering data centres

• Floods -> data centres getting underwater

(add links later)

Misc

• https://becha.home.xs4all.nl/Environmental_Sustainability_Focus-RIPE-adjacent_Communities-2021.pdf

2022 -> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-26/here-s-what-europe-is-doing-to-reduce-energy-consumption-for-winter

Children

Resources to teach to CHILDREN about sustainability and tech

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

• a "doomers" picturebook :
  • 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