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

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

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

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

• too many :(

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
• https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/not-growing-but-thriving-the-beginning-of-a-paradigm-shift/

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

• 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

• XR & Scientists Rebellion

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/