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"Even if this #growth logic is not of their own making, #art institutions have a responsibility to help change it. For one thing, they should get smarter about how they measure success. Visitor numbers and income are crude measures and fall prey to the illusion of Western modernity that more is better.&quot…

'Building your way to sustainability is a bad idea, no matter how green your new building is'
Renovations need to win out over new extensions, says sustainability professor Martin Müller, and museums need to 'get back to basics

Balancing Progress and Responsibility: A Synthesis of Sustainability Trade-Offs of AI-Based Systems
Apoorva Nalini Pradeep Kumar, Justus Bogner, Markus Funke, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03995

Balancing Progress and Responsibility: A Synthesis of Sustainability Trade-Offs of AI-Based Systems
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have increased the eagerness of companies to integrate AI into software systems. While AI can be used to have a positive impact on several dimensions of sustainability, this is often overshadowed by its potential negative influence. While many studies have explored sustainability factors in isolation, there is insufficient holistic coverage of potential sustainability benefits or costs that practitioners need to consider during decisi…

Bronzeville 🌃🎰🍸
Dramatized historical fiction thriller | Chronicling the lives of players in the lottery games while illuminating the self-sustainability of the community’s African American residents.
Centers on African American stories, stars Laurence Fishburne, Larenz Tate, and Tika Sumpter, and is written by...
https://www.<…

Bronzeville 🌃🎰🍸
Dramatized historical fiction thriller | Chronicling the lives of players in the lottery games while illuminating the self-sustainability of the community’s African American residents. Centers on African American stories, stars Laurence Fishburne, Larenz Tate, and Tika Sumpter, and is written by Academy Award(r) and BAFTA nominee Josh Olson. 2 seasons, 17 episodes as of Apr 20, 2021.

Obsolete satellite antennas in Swiss Alps are being repurposed with solar panels https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/swiss-satellite-antennas-make-comeback-solar-powerhouses-2023-10-19/…

So #Bluesky is doing developer grants, even if very small ones. $500-$2000/project, $10k total. One thing that having a funded project lets you do.
https://bsky.app/profile/atproto.com/p

Rooftop heat pump technologies can save US businesses $5B annually: DOE
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Cognitive maps of institutional investors in sustainability https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014098832400152X @…@…

Ghouls
https://mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com/@TucsonSentinel/112044355710564320

Tucson Sentinel (@TucsonSentinel@mastodon.tucsonsentinel.com)
Az GOP lawmakers want to ban compliance with UN, World Economic Forum goals for sustainability https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/030524_sustainability_compliance/az-gop-lawmakers-want-ban-compliance-with-un-world-economic-forum-goals-sustainability/ Republicans in the Arizona House voted this week to ban governmental entities in the state from enacting any portion of the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda, as well as a long list of other initiatives promoted by the World Economic Forum tha…

The forgotten pillar of sustainability: development of the S-assessment tool to evaluate Organizational Social Sustainability
Alessandro Annarelli, Tiziana Catarci, Laura Palagi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04077

The forgotten pillar of sustainability: development of the S-assessment tool to evaluate Organizational Social Sustainability
Pursuing sustainable development has become a global imperative, underscored adopting of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). At the heart of this agenda lies the recognition of social sustainability as a pivotal component, emphasizing the need for inclusive societies where every individual can thrive. Despite its significance, social sustainability remains a "forgotten pillar," often overshadowed by environmental concerns. In response, thi…

"Kingspan slashes operational emissions by two-thirds in four years"
#Kingspan #Emissions
h…

Kingspan slashes operational emissions by two-thirds in four years
Building materials and design giant Kingspan has announced a 65% reduction in its Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions since 2020 as part of its 10-year sustainability programme, ‘Planet Passionate.’

"employee pressure has had an enormous impact on sustainability at #Microsoft ... But convincing the world’s most valuable company to forgo lucrative oil industry contracts proved far more difficult."

Microsoft employees spent years fighting the tech giant’s oil ties. Now, they’re speaking out.
Inside the worker-led effort to get the world's most valuable company to stop helping the oil and gas industry drill.

Wow amazing thread. Read the whole thing!!! tl;dr we all make sh*tty hardware and software :-) time for us in the computer industry to design hardware and software that reports faulty memory and other hardware issues and that isn't rife with software vulnerabilities :-) because of unsafe software like C and C
https://

Thanks, Amiel Handelsman, both for the wonderful conversation and for framing it so beautifully!
(I'll be curious to hear what it provokes for people.)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7171595147447660556/

Amiel Handelsman on LinkedIn: Gil Friend: Can the World Work?
OK, here's an inspiring story, one from a man who sees the world soberly AND has an inspired way of acting in it. I'm talking about sustainability pioneer Gil…

🐝 Sustainable Shift: 1 in 4 would take a pay cut for a sustainability role
https://www.maddyness.com/uk/2024/04/26/sustainable-shift-1-in-4-would-take-a-pay-cut-for-a-sustainability-role/

Sustainable Shift: 1 in 4 would take a pay cut for a sustainability role
People now consider jobs that positively impact society and the environment more important than when they started their career.

#DIAMAS report on the sustainability of institutional publishers (Brun, Pontille & Torny, 2024-04-02). https://zenodo.org/records/10907086

Urgent challenges demand more action from scientists
Professor of Planetary Health Pim Martens introduced a new concept to the audience by describing himself as a Scientivist. Martens formulates that:
"Scientivists are scientists that are engaged in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge (the ‘science’ part), that aim to promote, impede, or direct societal change (the ‘activist’ part)”.
:mastodon:

Could a planetary health approach in sustainability science wake up the masses to act? | Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science | University of Helsinki
Urban planning and policymakers must adapt to the growing understanding of how planetary health impacts human well-being. To achieve this, there is a need for resolute language in scientific communication to encourage immediate actions.

How much time, paper & energy could have been saved if every sustainability research paper could dispense with an obligatory couple paragraphs or even pages listing all the ecologically unsustainable aspects of Global North societies?
If there was a website that maintained current indicators of unsustainability, then every piece of sustainability research could begin with: "Global North societies are unsustainable (see www traumatising litany dot org). In response, this paper …

Towards Architecting Sustainable MLOps: A Self-Adaptation Approach
Hiya Bhatt, Shrikara Arun, Adyansh Kakran, Karthik Vaidhyanathan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04572

Towards Architecting Sustainable MLOps: A Self-Adaptation Approach
In today's dynamic technological landscape, sustainability has emerged as a pivotal concern, especially with respect to architecting Machine Learning enabled Systems (MLS). Many ML models fail in transitioning to production, primarily hindered by uncertainties due to data variations, evolving requirements, and model instabilities. Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) offers a promising solution by enhancing adaptability and technical sustainability in MLS. However, MLOps itself faces challenges …

Reskillience
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Reskillience | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Reskillience Host: Catie Payne Category: Science Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Earth Sciences First Episode: 2023 Reskillience is a podcast about skills, about the resilience they…

🐝 Sustainable Shift: 1 in 4 would take a pay cut for a sustainability role
https://www.maddyness.com/uk/2024/04/26/sustainable-shift-1-in-4-would-take-a-pay-cut-for-a-sustainability-role/

Sustainable Shift: 1 in 4 would take a pay cut for a sustainability role
People now consider jobs that positively impact society and the environment more important than when they started their career.

Over the past decades, we found out that the way we live in the rich countries of the world is not sustainable.
A common reaction is:
"Oh, that's not good. But any solution should:
1) ensure that we can keep living as we do, and
2) not be more expensive than current practice."
#sustainability

IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability
Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Mark Subbaro, Yvonne Jansen, Robert Soden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02743

IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability
This first workshop on visualization for climate action and sustainability aims to explore and consolidate the role of data visualization in accelerating action towards addressing the current environmental crisis. Given the urgency and impact of the environmental crisis, we ask how our skills, research methods, and innovations can help by empowering people and organizations. We believe visualization holds an enormous power to aid understanding, decision making, communication, discussion, partic…

Straus Family Creamery’s groundbreaking practice-based incentive program —which is among the first of its kind from a dairy processor— supports its supplying organic dairy farms in achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. 
https://www.bu…

Straus Family Creamery Advances Carbon Neutral Goals with New Organic Dairy Sustainability Incentive Program
Straus Family Creamery, renowned for its minimally processed premium organic dairy products and leadership in sustainable organic farming, announces i

"Top banks with strong climate rhetoric show low sustainability performance, research finds"
#Banks #Finance #Sustainability

Top banks with strong climate rhetoric show low sustainability performance, research finds
Environmental organisation Bank Green has ranked more than 100 banking institutions in the UK based on their climate impact, uncovering that some of the banks prominently advertising their environmental concerns are among the most detrimental offenders.

💪 Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
(... YOShInOn showed me many papers on electrochemical reduction of CO2 today, I like this one because you can make a lot of chemicals from acetylene)
https://phys.org/news/2024-03-adva…

Advancing towards sustainability: Turning carbon dioxide and water into acetylene
Reaching sustainability is one of humanity's most pressing challenges today—and also one of the hardest. To minimize our impact on the environment and start reverting the damage humanity has already caused, striving to achieve carbon neutrality in as many economic activities as possible is paramount. Unfortunately, the synthesis of many important chemicals still causes high carbon emissions.

The data center industry is struggling to meet its self-imposed sustainability goals as AI's booming growth increases electricity demand and strains power grids (Patrick Sisson/New York Times)
https://www.

A.I. Frenzy Complicates Efforts to Keep Power-Hungry Data Sites Green
Artificial intelligence’s booming growth is radically reshaping an already red-hot data center market, raising questions about whether these sites can be operated sustainably.

Four owners of independent media talk about why they went independent, the boom-and-bust cycle of media funding, sustainability, co-op ownership, and more (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanl…

“Nobody solves media except temporarily”: Four indie media owners on money, sustainability, and “making cooler, weirder things”
"Blogging is the media. Blogging won."

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18604 has been replaced.
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Modeling Sustainable City Trips: Integrating CO2e Emissions, Popularity, and Seasonality into Tourism Recommender Systems
Tourism affects not only the tourism industry but also society and stakeholders such as the environment, local businesses, and residents. Tourism Recommender Systems (TRS) can be pivotal in promoting sustainable tourism by guiding travelers toward destinations with minimal negative impact. Our paper introduces a composite sustainability indicator for a city trip TRS based on the users' starting point and month of travel. This indicator integrates CO2e emissions for different transportation mode…

All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food
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All The Dirt | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: All The Dirt Gardening, Sustainability And Food Hosts: Steve Wood and Deryn Thorpe Category: Leisure Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Food & Drink, Home & Garden First Episode: 2017…

AI Sustainability in Practice Part Two: Sustainability Throughout the AI Workflow
David Leslie, Cami Rincon, Morgan Briggs, Antonella Perini, Smera Jayadeva, Ann Borda, SJ Bennett, Christopher Burr, Mhairi Aitken, Michael Katell, Claudia Fischer, Janis Wong, Ismael Kherroubi Garcia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15404

AI Sustainability in Practice Part Two: Sustainability Throughout the AI Workflow
The sustainability of AI systems depends on the capacity of project teams to proceed with a continuous sensitivity to their potential real-world impacts and transformative effects. Stakeholder Impact Assessments (SIAs) are governance mechanisms that enable this kind of responsiveness. They are tools that create a procedure for, and a means of documenting, the collaborative evaluation and reflective anticipation of the possible harms and benefits of AI innovation projects. SIAs are not one-off g…

IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability
Benjamin Bach, Fanny Chevalier, Helen-Nicole Kostis, Mark Subbaro, Yvonne Jansen, Robert Soden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02743

IEEE VIS Workshop on Visualization for Climate Action and Sustainability
This first workshop on visualization for climate action and sustainability aims to explore and consolidate the role of data visualization in accelerating action towards addressing the current environmental crisis. Given the urgency and impact of the environmental crisis, we ask how our skills, research methods, and innovations can help by empowering people and organizations. We believe visualization holds an enormous power to aid understanding, decision making, communication, discussion, partic…

COP29 climate summit host Azerbaijan defends oil and gas investments (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/cop29-climate-summit-host-azerbaijan-defends-oil-gas-investments-2024-04-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240426/p4#a240426p4

The Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit: A Decade of Modeling Experience
Patricia Lago, Nelly Condori Fernandez, Iffat Fatima, Markus Funke, Ivano Malavolta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01391

The Sustainability Assessment Framework Toolkit: A Decade of Modeling Experience
Software intensive systems play a crucial role in most, if not all, aspects of modern society. As such, both their sustainability and their role in supporting sustainable processes, must be realized by design. To this aim, the architecture of software intensive systems should be designed to support sustainability goals; and measured to understand how effectively they do so. In this paper, we present the Sustainability Assessment Framework (SAF) Toolkit -- a set of instruments that support archi…

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Thank you for shaping the Web and making it a better place with every single title you published, @…, @…, and @…

A New Chapter for A Book Apart
Dear Reader, We wanted to share a bit of news with you. Since opening our doors in 2010, we’ve navigated considerable change—from rising production costs, to fluctuating fulfillment needs, to evolving operational strategies. Largely, experiencing such change has inspired us to shift, flex, and transform. More recently, it is testing the sustainability of our business, and after careful consideration we

The role of the Allee effect in common-pool resource and its sustainability
Chengyi Tu, Fabio Menegazzo, Paolo D'Odorico, Samir Suweis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01271

The role of the Allee effect in common-pool resource and its sustainability
The management of common-pool resources is a complex challenge due to the risk of overexploitation and the tragedy of the commons. A novel framework has been introduced to address this issue, focusing on the coevolutionary relationship between human behavior and common-pool resources within a human-environment system. However, the impact of the Allee effect on the coevolution and its resource sustainability is still unexplored. The Allee effect, a biological phenomenon characterized by a correl…

"#Greenwashing: #KLM ads were misleading, Dutch court says
The court said that the Dutch #airline painted "an overly rosy picture" of its efforts toward sustainability. However, KL…

Greenwashing: KLM ads were misleading, Dutch court says
The court said that the Dutch airline painted "an overly rosy picture" of its efforts toward sustainability. However, KLM will not be forced to issue any rectification.

Says it's like chicken but 'gamy' - well, that's what a Cornish game hen tastes like, so I'd try it
Farmed pythons may be sustainable type of protein amid food insecurity: Study
https://thehil…

Study finds pythons may provide sustainable meat for food insecurity
Python “may offer a flexible and efficient response” to food insecurity, according to researchers.

University of Leeds peregrine-watching livestream.
Apparently an egg has been laid!
#birds #peregrines #Leeds

Access to human-mobility data is essential for building a sustainable future
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-sustainability/fulltext/S2949-7906(24)00105-8

Want to improve your transit system’s sustainability? A relaunched FTA program can help.
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

Now on the blog of the Software Sustainability Institute: My blog post on last year's #citizenscience for health conference #cs4h at the University of Twente. https://www.software.ac.uk/blog/software-co-design-citizen-science-4-health-conference

I think a good solid path to sustainability is probably a game of stock market snake oil whackamole.
Have teams of pros hunt for the enshitification, the capital horded, the monopolies,
And replace them with greener community controlled things.
Axe big data centers, in favor of computing the community agrees upon
If every young person on the planet could vote on the auto manufacturers decision to make only plug in hybrids and EVs,
Or had a direct vote to replace every gas power plant

For me, there has always been a set of analogies between the evolutions of the music industry and (open) software industry to learn from and reason about.
Below Perens applies a music industry solution as a possible solution to #OpenSource sustainability.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

The Sustainable Hour
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The Sustainable Hour | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Sustainable Hour Host: Mik Aidt Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Home & Garden First Episode: 2013 By Anthony Gleeson, Colin Mockett and Mik Aidt: The…

"With space sustainability in mind, SpaceX has to-date initiated controlled deorbits on 406 satellites out of the nearly 6000 #Starlink satellites launched," writes SpaceX in the COMMITMENT TO SPACE SUSTAINABILITY https://api.starlink.com/public-files/Commitment to Space Sustainability.pdf: "In the coming weeks and months, SpaceX will perform controlled descents of approximately 100 additional early-version 1 Starlink satellites."

Open source sustainability questions
As a user, sponsor and supporter of various open source projects, I find that I am again thinking about the financial sustainability of these projects. The benefits of projects like Mastodon are undeniable and a joy to many people, myself included. But have we found a sustainable financial model that supports on-going development and longevity of open source projects? I would be interested in other people's thoughts about this.
Linux seems to have found a sustainable model through the Linux Foundation. Canonical provides commercial level support for Ubuntu Linux. I suspect they are sustained by paid optional technical support agreements. I know that OpenSSL struggled for some time before finding some corporate sponsors and they also do consulting projects.
However, I’ve watched a number of decent open source solutions gradually drift into the hands of commercial operators or become more limited through licensing. Java, MySQL, Vault and MongoDB initially come to mind. To me many current open source projects seem at risk for this.
I am interested in thoughts about open source sustainability, and examples that you might add to my limited list. I will summarize the results on this in a later post. Also, please feel free to share links to other sources that discuss this question.
I would appreciate a boost if you are so inclined.
#OpenSource #Mastodon #FOSS

SOPA: A Framework for Sustainability-Oriented Process Analysis and Re-design in Business Process Management
Finn Klessascheck, Ingo Weber, Luise Pufahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01176

SOPA: A Framework for Sustainability-Oriented Process Analysis and Re-design in Business Process Management
Given the continuous global degradation of the Earth's ecosystem due to unsustainable human activity, it is increasingly important for enterprises to evaluate the effects they have on the environment. Consequently, assessing the impact of business processes on sustainability is becoming an important consideration in the discipline of Business Process Management (BPM). However, existing practical approaches that aim at a sustainability-oriented analysis of business processes provide only a limit…

Stoppen met kolencentrales en ouderwetse hoogovens, dat moet, dat zijn de grootste stappen. Maar ja, dat kan de burger niet, dat is aan de politiek en het bedrijfsleven dus ligt de nadruk elders. https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/112000706977419967

My latest blog.
Why have people called this "brilliant," "gorgeous," "beautiful"?
And said "Your posts are always good. But this one was especially good."?
I guess you'll just have to find out for yourself!

"Sustainability"? Nah. What About a Business Narrative That Centers the Living World?
Augmented Intelligence stories from Winston, Friend…and a friend! Three narratives of human and business futures, with different seeds at the center.

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Repair Café - SPEC
SPEC brings together repair volunteers and community members at Repair Cafés in Metro Vancouver to fix household items and divert waste.

Bounds of Block Rewards in Honest PinFi Systems
Qi He, Yunwei Mao, Ju Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02174 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.…

Bounds of Block Rewards in Honest PinFi Systems
PinFi is a class of novel protocols for decentralized pricing of dissipative assets, whose value naturally declines over time. Central to the protocol's functionality and its market efficiency is the role of liquidity providers (LPs). This study addresses critical stability and sustainability challenges within the protocol, namely: the propensity of LPs to prefer selling in external markets over participation in the protocol; a similar inclination towards selling within the PinFi system rather …

The Narrative Society's Sustainability Reading Group is holding a session on Marco Caracciolo's book 'Slow Narratives'
"Slow Narrative [...] investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world."
16 May, at 5 pm CEST (7 pm in Dubai, 6 pm in Tampere, 4 pm in Newcastle, 11 am in Columbus, etc.) Marco will join.

Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities
2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins PrizeSlow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative ...

Lovely to see @… here. Give her a follow for all things Welsh, sustainability and transport!
🤝
@… #Transport

Have you checked out the #TNC24 Programme? Are you interested in discussing the importance of #sustainability, or how to approach #AI to support

The Disney-Reliance merger would create a TV player that dominates cricket in India: Disney has IPL TV broadcast rights and Reliance has IPL streaming rights (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15795 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

Biparental Reproduction may Enhance Species Sustainability by Conserving Shared Parental Traits more Faithfully than Monoparental Reproduction
Recognized effects of sexual reproduction and other forms of biparental reproduction in species sustainment and evolution include the increasing of diversity, accelerating adaptation, constraining the accumulation of deleterious mutations, and the homogenization of species genotype. Nevertheless, many questions remain open with regard to the evolution of biparental reproduction. In this paper we contribute an initial exploration of finer details of the homogenization effect that we believe dese…

Unveiling Urban Mobility Patterns: A Data-Driven Analysis of Public Transit
Oluwaleke Yusuf, Adil Rasheed, Frank Lindseth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02172 …

Unveiling Urban Mobility Patterns: A Data-Driven Analysis of Public Transit
The expansion of urban centers necessitates enhanced efficiency and sustainability in their transportation infrastructure and mobility systems. The big data obtainable from various transportation modes potentially offers critical insights for urban planning. This study presents analysis of detailed historical public transit data, enriched with relevant temporal and geospatial metadata, as a precursor to injecting dynamism into digital twins of mobility systems via ML/DL-based predictive modelin…

IRS direct pay framework opens doors for tax-exempt entities to access clean energy credits
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

I bet Bernie Standards loved this episode of @… in which @… uses her voice to talk about web sustainability – a key component of tackling the

Looked at my https://adrianco.medium.com account, I have started a bunch of blog posts in the last few months, but haven’t finished them. Need to do some writing and get stuff off the backlog. Too much work-in-progress. Luckily I’m just posting because I feel like it, so the main thing is not to start a…

adrian cockcroft – Medium
Read writing from adrian cockcroft on Medium. Work: Technology strategy advisor, Partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL).

"Political instability undermining sustainable business investments in UK, survey finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Business

Political instability undermining sustainable business investments in UK, survey finds
Sustainability professionals in the UK have ranked political instability and uncertainty as the biggest challenge they face in developing and delivering impactful projects, with eight in ten waiting for the general election in the hopes of renewed green ambitions from policymakers.

I think a good solid path to sustainability is probably a game of stock market snake oil whackamole.
Have teams of pros hunt for the enshitification, the capital horded, the monopolies,
And replace them with greener community controlled things.
Axe big data centers, in favor of computing the community agrees upon
If every young person on the planet could vote on the auto manufacturers decision to make only plug in hybrids and EVs,
Or had a direct vote to replace every gas power plant

For me, there has always been a set of analogies between the evolutions of the music industry and (open) software industry to learn from and reason about.
Below Perens applies a music industry solution as a possible solution to #OpenSource sustainability.

Open Source world's Bruce Perens emits draft Post-Open Zero Cost License
Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

The Disney-Reliance merger would create a TV player that dominates cricket in India: Disney has IPL TV broadcast rights and Reliance has IPL streaming rights (Arpan Chaturvedi/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sust…

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Get an item repaired for FREE! Register now for the May Repair Café at Killarney Community Centre. Join us on Saturday, May 18th from 9:00 AM to 1:30 PM for a day filled with community spirit, waste reduction, and live repair. Don't miss this chance to see sustainability in action!

Repair Café - SPEC
SPEC brings together repair volunteers and community members at Repair Cafés in Metro Vancouver to fix household items and divert waste.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06540 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Automatic ESG Assessment of Companies by Mining and Evaluating Media Coverage Data: NLP Approach and Tool
Context: Sustainable corporate behavior is increasingly valued by society and impacts corporate reputation and customer trust. Hence, companies regularly publish sustainability reports to shed light on their impact on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Problem: Sustainability reports are written by companies themselves and are therefore considered a company-controlled source. Contrary, studies reveal that non-corporate channels (e.g., media coverage) represent the main driver …

Biodegradable Interactive Materials
Zhihan Zhang, Mallory Parker, Kuotian Liao, Jerry Cao, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Chris Matsumura, Serena Eley, Eleftheria Roumeli, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03130

Biodegradable Interactive Materials
The sense of touch is fundamental to how we interact with the physical and digital world. Conventional interactive surfaces and tactile interfaces use electronic sensors embedded into objects, however this approach poses serious challenges both for environmental sustainability and a future of truly ubiquitous interaction systems where information is encoded into everyday objects. In this work, we present Biodegradable Interactive Materials: backyard-compostable interactive interfaces that lever…

Memphis Falcon
https://scicomm.xyz/@paul4kant/112297446962213752

Paul Vierkant (@paul4kant@scicomm.xyz)
Attached: 3 images After months of sorting more than 50k bricks & numerous weekends of building, my son & I finished the #Lego Millennium Falcon™ (75192) last weekend. Made of around 7.5k colorful bricks & weighing around 13kg in total. Our greatest Lego project ever. Out of the 7.5k bricks we had 6.5k in our stocks & ordered the rest. Believing in #sustainability we reused most of the bricks we already had. Please boost, if want to color up someone else's day! 🚀🌈 #StarWars #star…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03123 has been replaced.
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ChatGPT Needs SPADE (Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics) Evaluation: A Review
ChatGPT is another large language model (LLM) vastly available for the consumers on their devices but due to its performance and ability to converse effectively, it has gained a huge popularity amongst research as well as industrial community. Recently, many studies have been published to show the effectiveness, efficiency, integration, and sentiments of chatGPT and other LLMs. In contrast, this study focuses on the important aspects that are mostly overlooked, i.e. sustainability, privacy, dig…

The Narrative Society's Sustainability Reading Group is holding a session on Marco Caracciolo's book 'Slow Narratives'
"Slow Narrative [...] investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative practices can create a vision of interconnectedness between human communities and the nonhuman world."
16 May, at 5 pm CEST (7 pm in Dubai, 6 pm in Tampere, 4 pm in Newcastle, 11 am in Columbus, etc.) Marco will join.

Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities
2024 Barbara Perkins and George Perkins PrizeSlow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities investigates how the experience of slowness in contemporary narrative ...

Rapid Mobile App Development for Generative AI Agents on MIT App Inventor
Jaida Gao, Calab Su, Etai Miller, Kevin Lu, Yu Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01561

Rapid Mobile App Development for Generative AI Agents on MIT App Inventor
The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) stands as a pivotal force shaping our society, finding applications across diverse domains such as education, sustainability, and safety. Leveraging AI within mobile applications makes it easily accessible to the public, catalyzing its transformative potential. In this paper, we present a methodology for the rapid development of AI agent applications using the development platform provided by MIT App Inventor. To demonstrate its efficacy, we share t…

♻️ By-Product Valorization as a Means for the Brewing Industry to Move toward a Circular Bioeconomy
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By-Product Valorization as a Means for the Brewing Industry to Move toward a Circular Bioeconomy
Beer production consumes significant amounts of water, energy, and raw materials, and results in the production of various by-products, including wastewater, brewers’ spent grain, yeast and hop. To lower its environmental footprint, by-products may be reclaimed or valorized in agro-food, cosmetic, material, chemical industries, etc. According to most recent research, breweries have the potential to become biorefineries, as they can extract diverse valuable plant-based compounds such as carboh…

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"Sustainability"? Nah. What About a Business Narrative That Centers the Living World?
Andrew Winston recently offered a wonderful post asking ChatGPT for alternatives to "the core narrative or story that we're living today." Here's a snippet of what he wrote: Here are the 1-sentence versions, but the longer ones in my post are fascinating and worth a read.

Biodegradable Interactive Materials
Zhihan Zhang, Mallory Parker, Kuotian Liao, Jerry Cao, Anandghan Waghmare, Joseph Breda, Chris Matsumura, Serena Eley, Eleftheria Roumeli, Shwetak Patel, Vikram Iyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03130

Biodegradable Interactive Materials
The sense of touch is fundamental to how we interact with the physical and digital world. Conventional interactive surfaces and tactile interfaces use electronic sensors embedded into objects, however this approach poses serious challenges both for environmental sustainability and a future of truly ubiquitous interaction systems where information is encoded into everyday objects. In this work, we present Biodegradable Interactive Materials: backyard-compostable interactive interfaces that lever…

Sustainability through the Lens of Value – Recap of the IMN Winter ESG and Decarbonization in Real Estate Conference
#RealEstate #MoodysCRE #MA_CRESolutions

🌾 Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2024/03/25/travel/luxury-tourism-market-japan-experience/

Can Japan lure the jet-set class off the beaten path?
High-end travelers are looking for sustainability, wellness and adventure when they head abroad. Japan hopes to deliver in places other than Tokyo.

"Secondhand clothing on track to take 10% of global fashion sales"
#Fashion #Textiles #Clothes

Food Waste Matters
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Food Waste Matters | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Food Waste Matters Hosts: Jayne Gallagher and Dr Joanne Freeman Category: Business Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Food & Drink First Episode: 2024 Food waste is…

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ChatGPT Needs SPADE (Sustainability, PrivAcy, Digital divide, and Ethics) Evaluation: A Review
ChatGPT is another large language model (LLM) vastly available for the consumers on their devices but due to its performance and ability to converse effectively, it has gained a huge popularity amongst research as well as industrial community. Recently, many studies have been published to show the effectiveness, efficiency, integration, and sentiments of chatGPT and other LLMs. In contrast, this study focuses on the important aspects that are mostly overlooked, i.e. sustainability, privacy, dig…

Today Bill Weihl, a former sustainability executive who continues to fight for climate policy progress while living with ALS, issued a powerful invitation to colleagues in the sustainability community asserting that it is “time for all companies to lead” on climate policy. I've signed on. I hope you will too! Please join us!

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The Net Zero Path For Business
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The Net Zero Path For Business | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Net Zero Path For Business Host: Taylor Hawkins Category: Technology Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, How To First Episode: 2024 Net Zero is a growing ambition for many businesses.

"Report: UK energy firms risk diverting £115bn overseas due to poor green policies"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Renewables #Energy

From Exploration to End of Life: Unpacking Sustainability in Physicalization Practices
Luiz Morais, Georgia Panagiotidou, Sarah Hayes, Tatiana Losev, Rebecca Noonan, Uta Hinrichs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09860

From Exploration to End of Life: Unpacking Sustainability in Physicalization Practices
Data physicalizations have gained prominence across domains, but their environmental impact has been largely overlooked. This work addresses this gap by investigating the interplay between sustainability and physicalization practices. We conducted interviews with experts from diverse backgrounds, followed by a survey to gather insights into how they approach physicalization projects and reflect on sustainability. Our thematic analysis revealed sustainability considerations throughout the entire…

Potentials of Green Coding -- Findings and Recommendations for Industry, Education and Science -- Extended Paper
Dennis JungerHTW Berlin, Max WestingUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Christopher P. FreitagHTW Berlin, Achim GuldnerUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Konstantin MittelbachHTW Berlin, Kira Oberg\"okerUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Sebastian WeberUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Stefan NaumannUmwelt-Campus Birkenfeld, Volker WohlgemuthHTW Berlin

Potentials of Green Coding -- Findings and Recommendations for Industry, Education and Science -- Extended Paper
Progressing digitalization and increasing demand and use of software cause rises in energy- and resource consumption from information and communication technologies (ICT). This raises the issue of sustainability in ICT, which increasingly includes the sustainability of the software products themselves and the art of creating sustainable software. To this end, we conducted an analysis to gather and present existing literature on three research questions relating to the production of ecologically…

On the role of ethics and sustainability in business innovation
Maria Fay, Frederik F. Fl\"other
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07678 https://

On the role of ethics and sustainability in business innovation
For organizations to survive and flourish in the long term, innovation and novelty must be continually introduced, which is particularly true in today's rapidly changing world. This raises a variety of ethical and sustainability considerations that seldom receive the attention they deserve. Existing innovation adoption frameworks often focus on technological, organizational, environmental, and social factors impacting adoption. In this chapter, we explore the ethical and sustainability angles, …

Light | Cities Architecture
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Light | Cities + Architecture | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Light | Cities + Architecture Hosts: Antony DiMase and Justine Costigan Category: Arts Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Construction & Engineering, Design First Episode: 2019 A podcast…

Implications of Regulations on the Use of AI and Generative AI for Human-Centered Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Marios Constantinides, Mohammad Tahaei, Daniele Quercia, Simone Stumpf, Michael Madaio, Sean Kennedy, Lauren Wilcox, Jessica Vitak, Henriette Cramer, Edyta Bogucka, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Ewa Luger, Jess Holbrook, Michael Muller, Ilana Golbin Blumenfeld, Giada Pistilli

Implications of Regulations on the Use of AI and Generative AI for Human-Centered Responsible Artificial Intelligence
With the upcoming AI regulations (e.g., EU AI Act) and rapid advancements in generative AI, new challenges emerge in the area of Human-Centered Responsible Artificial Intelligence (HCR-AI). As AI becomes more ubiquitous, questions around decision-making authority, human oversight, accountability, sustainability, and the ethical and legal responsibilities of AI and their creators become paramount. Addressing these questions requires a collaborative approach. By involving stakeholders from variou…

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FAIR-USE4OS: Guidelines for Creating Impactful Open-Source Software
This paper extends the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) guidelines to provide criteria for assessing if software conforms to best practices in open source. By adding 'USE' (User-Centered, Sustainable, Equitable), software development can adhere to open source best practice by incorporating user-input early on, ensuring front-end designs are accessible to all possible stakeholders, and planning long-term sustainability alongside software design. The FAIR-USE4OS guidelines wil…

💡 Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
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Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is gaining substantial relevance in the realm of ultra-low-power electronics and Internet-of-Things devices with limited access to classic power sources. Several harvesting approaches are available, depending on the energy source; among them, photovoltaic devices benefit from the highest energy density. However, the inclusion of a dedicated photovoltaic cell in a low-power system may result in increased costs and complexity, thus hampering economic sustainability. Conversely, …

Driven By Nature
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Driven By Nature | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Driven By Nature Hosts: Yanti Winoto-Lewin and Carla Bruinsma Category: Science Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Nature First Episode: 2023 We interview people who are working to…

💡 Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
#led #electronics

Light-Emitting Diodes for Energy Harvesting
Energy harvesting is gaining substantial relevance in the realm of ultra-low-power electronics and Internet-of-Things devices with limited access to classic power sources. Several harvesting approaches are available, depending on the energy source; among them, photovoltaic devices benefit from the highest energy density. However, the inclusion of a dedicated photovoltaic cell in a low-power system may result in increased costs and complexity, thus hampering economic sustainability. Conversely, …

"Britain's anti-greenwashing rule for finance takes effect on May 31"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Greenwashing

Mindful Builder
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Mindful Builder | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Mindful Builder Hosts: Matthew Carland and Hamish White Category: Education Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Construction & Engineering, Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2024…

How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project
Jiayi Sun, Aarya Patil, Youhai Li, Jin L. C. Guo, Shurui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15081

How to Sustain a Scientific Open-Source Software Ecosystem: Learning from the Astropy Project
Scientific open-source software (OSS) has greatly benefited research communities through its transparent and collaborative nature. Given its critical role in scientific research, ensuring the sustainability of such software has become vital. Earlier studies have proposed sustainability strategies for conventional scientific software and open-source communities. However, it remains unclear whether these solutions can be easily adapted to the integrated framework of scientific OSS and its larger …

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🚲 Bike Bus gains supporters as a way to promote sustainable and safe mobility
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Bike Bus gains supporters as a way to promote sustainable and safe mobility
The Bike Bus movement has emerged as a powerful tool to promote road safety, sustainability and community. According to a global survey carried out by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB), the phenomenon has gained momentum globally in recent years, with more than 470 Bike Bus routes worldwide, transporting 32,000 children to school every week.

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Folk This
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Folk This | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Folk This Host: Dr Kathryn Roberts Parker and Ben Edge Category: Arts Sub-Category: Climate & Sustainability, Culture and Identity, Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2024 Hello and…

Free Open Source Communities Sustainability: Does It Make a Difference in Software Quality?
Adam Alami, Ra\'ul Pardo, Johan Lin\r{a}ker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06916

Free Open Source Communities Sustainability: Does It Make a Difference in Software Quality?
Context: Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities' ability to stay viable and productive over time is pivotal for society as they maintain the building blocks that digital infrastructure, products, and services depend on. Sustainability may, however, be characterized from multiple aspects, and less is known how these aspects interplay and impact community outputs, and software quality specifically. Objective: This study, therefore, aims to empirically explore how the different aspects…