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"How to reduce your food footprint: if it’s better for you, it’s better for the planet"
#Food #Climate #ClimateChange

Eco-Friendly AI: Unleashing Data Power for Green Federated Learning
Mattia Sabella, Monica Vitali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17241 https://

Eco-Friendly AI: Unleashing Data Power for Green Federated Learning
The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) comes with a significant environmental impact, particularly in terms of energy consumption and carbon emissions. This pressing issue highlights the need for innovative solutions to mitigate AI's ecological footprint. One of the key factors influencing the energy consumption of ML model training is the size of the training dataset. ML models are often trained on vast amounts of data continuously generated by sensor…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Estimating CO$_2$ emissions of distributed applications and platforms with SimGrid/Batsim
Gabriella Saraiva (EACH), Miguel Vasconcelos (UT, IRIT-SEPIA, IRIT, Toulouse INP, UT3, CNRS), Sarita Mazzini Bruschi (ICMC-USP), Danilo Carastan-Santos (DATAMOVE, UGA UFR IM2AG, CNRS, LIG), Daniel Cordeiro (EACH)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13693

Estimating CO$_2$ emissions of distributed applications and platforms with SimGrid/Batsim
This work presents a carbon footprint plugin designed to extend the capabilities of the Batsim simulator by allowing the calculation of CO$_2$ emissions during simulation runs. The goal is to comprehensively assess the environmental impact associated with task and resource management strategies in data centers. The plugin is developed within SimGrid -- the underlying simulation framework of Batsim -- and computes carbon emissions based on the simulated platform's energy consumption and carbon i…

(2020) Want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local #environment

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?

Dirty Bits in Low-Earth Orbit: The Carbon Footprint of Launching Computers
Robin Ohs, Gregory F. Stock, Andreas Schmidt, Juan A. Fraire, Holger Hermanns
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06250

Dirty Bits in Low-Earth Orbit: The Carbon Footprint of Launching Computers
Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites are increasingly proposed for communication and in-orbit computing, achieving low-latency global services. However, their sustainability remains largely unexamined. This paper investigates the carbon footprint of computing in space, focusing on lifecycle emissions from launch over orbital operation to re-entry. We present ESpaS, a lightweight tool for estimating carbon intensities across CPU usage, memory, and networking in orbital vs. terrestrial settings. Thre…

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cryptographic Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Marc Damie, Mihai Pop, Merijn Posthuma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04583 https://

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Cryptographic Privacy-Enhancing Technologies
Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) have attracted significant attention in response to privacy regulations, driving the development of applications that prioritize user data protection. At the same time, the information and communication technology (ICT) sector faces growing pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, particularly its carbon emissions. While numerous studies have assessed the energy footprint of various ICT applications, the environmental footprint of cryptographic PETs …

Food's Carbon Footprint - Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon - https://www.

Foods Carbon Footprint
Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon

New article from me, with link at bottom to longer, fully referenced pamphlet.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/renewables-carbon-and-the-energy-crisis/

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

Calculating Software's Energy Use and Carbon Emissions: A Survey of the State of Art, Challenges, and the Way Ahead
Priyavanshi Pathania, Nikhil Bamby, Rohit Mehra, Samarth Sikand, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09683 …

Calculating Software's Energy Use and Carbon Emissions: A Survey of the State of Art, Challenges, and the Way Ahead
The proliferation of software and AI comes with a hidden risk: its growing energy and carbon footprint. As concerns regarding environmental sustainability come to the forefront, understanding and optimizing how software impacts the environment becomes paramount. In this paper, we present a state-of-the-art review of methods and tools that enable the measurement of software and AI-related energy and/or carbon emissions. We introduce a taxonomy to categorize the existing work as Monitoring, Estim…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint by Mark H Burton Net zero, that is the government plan to reduce climate…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

Consumer-based Carbon Costs: Integrating Consumer Carbon Preferences in Electricity Markets
Wenqian Jiang, Aditya Rangarajan, Line Roald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01076 https:/…

Consumer-based Carbon Costs: Integrating Consumer Carbon Preferences in Electricity Markets
An increasing share of consumers care about the carbon footprint of their electricity. This paper proposes to integrate consumer carbon preferences in the electricity market-clearing through consumer-based carbon costs. Specifically, consumers can submit not only bids for power but also assign a cost to the carbon emissions incurred by their electricity use. We start from a centralized market clearing that maximizes social welfare under consideration of generation costs, consumer utility and co…

"Fifa again under scrutiny for World Cup’s increased carbon footprint"
#Football #Sports #Climate #ClimateChange

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint by Mark H Burton Net zero, that is the government plan to reduce climate…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

I'd like to congratulate MAGA on succeeding in its goal of handing technology leadership of the world away from the United States to Europe and China:
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/08/how-bmw-slashed-the-carbon-footprint-of-its-ne…

BMW’s next EV is its most sustainable car yet—here’s why
The break-even point with an ICE vehicle is as little as one year.

Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Megan Yeo, Sebastian Nosenzo, Daniel S. Palmer, Alexei K. Varah, Lucas Woodley, Ashley Nunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12507

Do the rich pay their fair share? Enumerating the price of flying (and abolishing) premium air travel
Premium air travel is often associated with a disproportionately large carbon emissions footprint. This association reflects the increased space and amenities typically found in premium cabins that existing discourse suggests makes their carriage more fuel, and consequently carbon, intensive. One increasingly popular solution is disincentivizing the use of premium cabins in favor of all-economy cabins. How effective might such a policy be. To what extent. And how may the revenue impact affect t…

Food's Carbon Footprint - Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon - https://www.

Foods Carbon Footprint
Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon

CF-RAG: A Dataset and Method for Carbon Footprint QA Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Kaiwen Zhao, Bharathan Balaji, Stephen Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03489 https://

CF-RAG: A Dataset and Method for Carbon Footprint QA Using Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Product sustainability reports provide valuable insights into the environmental impacts of a product and are often distributed in PDF format. These reports often include a combination of tables and text, which complicates their analysis. The lack of standardization and the variability in reporting formats further exacerbate the difficulty of extracting and interpreting relevant information from large volumes of documents. In this paper, we tackle the challenge of answering questions related to …

CarbonClarity: Understanding and Addressing Uncertainty in Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Computing
Xuesi Chen, Leo Han, Anvita Bhagavathula, Udit Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01145

CarbonClarity: Understanding and Addressing Uncertainty in Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Computing
Embodied carbon footprint modeling has become an area of growing interest due to its significant contribution to carbon emissions in computing. However, the deterministic nature of the existing models fail to account for the spatial and temporal variability in the semiconductor supply chain. The absence of uncertainty modeling limits system designers' ability to make informed, carbon-aware decisions. We introduce CarbonClarity, a probabilistic framework designed to model embodied carbon footpri…

Multi-Metric Algorithmic Complexity: Beyond Asymptotic Analysis
Sergii Kavun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13249 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13249

Multi-Metric Algorithmic Complexity: Beyond Asymptotic Analysis
Traditional algorithm analysis treats all basic operations as equally costly, which hides significant differences in time, energy consumption, and cost between different types of computations on modern processors. We propose a weighted-operation complexity model that assigns realistic cost values to different instruction types across multiple dimensions: computational effort, energy usage, carbon footprint, and monetary cost. The model computes overall efficiency scores based on user-defined pr…

An All-sky Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants: Far-UV is the Key
Mukremin Kilic, Pierre Bergeron, Warren R. Brown, Simon Blouin, Gracyn Jewett, Adam Moss, Patrick Dufour, Olivier Vincent
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12655

An All-sky Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants: Far-UV is the Key
The majority of merging white dwarfs leave behind a white dwarf remnant. Hot/warm DQ white dwarfs with carbon-rich atmospheres have high masses and unusual kinematics. All evidence points to a merger origin. Here, we demonstrate that far-UV + optical photometry provides an efficient way to identify these merger remnants. We take advantage of this photometric selection to identify 167 candidates in the GALEX All-Sky Imaging Survey footprint, and provide follow-up spectroscopy. Out of the 140 wit…

Save money and reduce your carbon footprint with a heat pump! One homeowner shares their utility bill savings after installation. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Homeowner sparks discussion by sharing energy bill data before and after installing a heat pump: 'I can now ... compare utility bills'
Heat pumps are becoming one of the hottest home upgrades. One homeowner shared about how switching to this eco-friendly alternative to warming and cooling systems brought cost savings and environmental benefits.

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

A Survey on Task Scheduling in Carbon-Aware Container Orchestration
Jialin Yang, Zainab Saad, Jiajun Wu, Xiaoguang Niu, Henry Leung, Steve Drew
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05949 …

A Survey on Task Scheduling in Carbon-Aware Container Orchestration
The soaring energy demands of large-scale software ecosystems and cloud data centers, accelerated by the intensive training and deployment of large language models, have driven energy consumption and carbon footprint to unprecedented levels. In response, both industry and academia are increasing efforts to reduce the carbon emissions associated with cloud computing through more efficient task scheduling and infrastructure orchestration. In this work, we present a systematic review of various Ku…

The vocal right-wing critics are largely denying the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate and simplistic. If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down, with far less overall energy use and less complex technology.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

Interfacially ordered phase states enable high-strength ductile eutectic Al alloys
Hemant Kumar, Praveen Kumar, Dierk Raabe, Baptiste Gault, Surendra Kumar Makineni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08327

Interfacially ordered phase states enable high-strength ductile eutectic Al alloys
Lightweight, high-strength structural materials are component enablers in transportation and aerospace, improving carbon footprint and fuel efficiency. Aluminium (Al)-based eutectics have property combinations that qualify them for such applications. However, they are prone to catastrophic failure because of insufficient load transfer across the interfaces between the brittle eutectic phase and the ductile matrix. Here we present a general solution to this problem by engineering these interface…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference
Nidhal Jegham, Marwan Abdelatti, Lassad Elmoubarki, Abdeltawab Hendawi

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.12456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDC_…

Ichnos: A Carbon Footprint Estimator for Scientific Workflows
Scientific workflows facilitate the automation of data analysis, and are used to process increasing amounts of data. Therefore, they tend to be resource-intensive and long-running, leading to significant energy consumption and carbon emissions. With ever-increasing emissions from the ICT sector, it is crucial to quantify and understand the carbon footprint of scientific workflows. However, existing tooling requires significant effort from users - such as setting up power monitoring before execu…

Food's Carbon Footprint - Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon - https://www.

Foods Carbon Footprint
Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon

CarbonSet: A Dataset to Analyze Trends and Benchmark the Sustainability of CPUs and GPUs
Jiajun Hu, Chetan Choppali Sudarshan, Vidya A. Chhabria, Aman Arora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10373

CarbonSet: A Dataset to Analyze Trends and Benchmark the Sustainability of CPUs and GPUs
Over the years, the chip industry has consistently developed high-performance processors to address the increasing demands across diverse applications. However, the rapid expansion of chip production has significantly increased carbon emissions, raising critical concerns about environmental sustainability. While researchers have previously modeled the carbon footprint (CFP) at both system and processor levels, a holistic analysis of sustainability trends encompassing the entire chip lifecycle r…

Learn how climate-smart biofuel policies can help reduce agriculture's carbon footprint. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Food's Carbon Footprint - Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon - https://www.

Foods Carbon Footprint
Are you as green as you eat? Your diet has a big impact on carbon footprint. #food #cutCarbon

Carbon-Aware Microservice Deployment for Optimal User Experience on a Budget
Kevin Kreutz, Philipp Wiesner, Monica Vitali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21422 …

Carbon-Aware Microservice Deployment for Optimal User Experience on a Budget
The carbon footprint of data centers has recently become a critical concern. So far, most carbon-aware strategies have focused on leveraging the flexibility of scheduling decisions for batch processing by shifting the time and location of workload executions. However, such approaches cannot be applied to service-oriented cloud applications, since they have to be reachable at every point in time and often at low latencies. We propose a carbon-aware approach for operating microservices under hour…

The Carbon Cost of Conversation, Sustainability in the Age of Language Models
Sayed Mahbub Hasan Amiri, Prasun Goswami, Md. Mainul Islam, Mohammad Shakhawat Hossen, Sayed Majhab Hasan Amiri, Naznin Akter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20018

The Carbon Cost of Conversation, Sustainability in the Age of Language Models
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 and BERT have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), yet their environmental costs remain dangerously overlooked. This article critiques the sustainability of LLMs, quantifying their carbon footprint, water usage, and contribution to e-waste through case studies of models such as GPT-4 and energy-efficient alternatives like Mistral 7B. Training a single LLM can emit carbon dioxide equivalent to hundreds of cars driven annually, while data centr…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09851 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_…

Carbon-Efficient 3D DNN Acceleration: Optimizing Performance and Sustainability
As Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) continue to drive advancements in artificial intelligence, the design of hardware accelerators faces growing concerns over embodied carbon footprint due to complex fabrication processes. 3D integration improves performance but introduces sustainability challenges, making carbon-aware optimization essential. In this work, we propose a carbon-efficient design methodology for 3D DNN accelerators, leveraging approximate computing and genetic algorithm-based design spa…

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
[1/1]:
- Densify & Conquer: Densified, smaller base-stations can conquer the increasing carbon footprint p...
Agrim Gupta, Adel Heidari, Jiaming Jin, Dinesh Bharadia

WattsOnAI: Measuring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Energy and Carbon Footprint of AI Workloads
Hongzhen Huang, Kunming Zhang, Hanlong Liao, Kui Wu, Guoming Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20535

WattsOnAI: Measuring, Analyzing, and Visualizing Energy and Carbon Footprint of AI Workloads
The rapid advancement of AI, particularly large language models (LLMs), has raised significant concerns about the energy use and carbon emissions associated with model training and inference. However, existing tools for measuring and reporting such impacts are often fragmented, lacking systematic metric integration and offering limited support for correlation analysis among them. This paper presents WattsOnAI, a comprehensive software toolkit for the measurement, analysis, and visualization of …

"Carbon footprint of Israel’s war on Gaza exceeds that of many entire countries"
#Gaza #Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

Energy-Aware Workflow Execution: An Overview of Techniques for Saving Energy and Emissions in Scientific Compute Clusters
Lauritz Thamsen, Yehia Elkhatib, Paul Harvey, Syed Waqar Nabi, Jeremy Singer, Wim Vanderbauwhede
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04062

Energy-Aware Workflow Execution: An Overview of Techniques for Saving Energy and Emissions in Scientific Compute Clusters
Scientific research in many fields routinely requires the analysis of large datasets, and scientists often employ workflow systems to leverage clusters of computers for their data analysis. However, due to their size and scale, these workflow applications can have a considerable environmental footprint in terms of compute resource use, energy consumption, and carbon emissions. Mitigating this is critical in light of climate change and the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions. In this chapte…

On Google's New Backup-and-Sync, and G-Drive: Reviews (2017) - An efficient and simple backup scheme that works for me, that does not carry a big price tag nor carbon footprint. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-backup-energy-efficiency.html

On Googles New Backup-and-Sync, and G-Drive: Reviews (2017)
An efficient and simple backup scheme that works for me, that does not carry a big price tag nor carbon footprint.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- Ichnos: A Carbon Footprint Estimator for Scientific Workflows
Kathleen West, Magnus Reid, Yehia Elkhatib, Lauritz Thamsen

E-bikes are saving commuters money, improving health, and reducing emissions. Switching to sustainable transportation is a win-win. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Commuters share firsthand savings data after worker considers e-bike for daily travel: 'I've saved so much money not having a car'
An e-bike can help you save money on gas and reduce your carbon footprint — plus, it provides a great source of exercise.

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Wacuka Ngata, Noman Bashir, Michelle Westerlaken, Laurent Liote, Yasra Chandio, Elsa Olivetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03367

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Datacenters have become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and promising economic growth and technological progress. However, this expansion has brought growing tensions in the local communities where datacenters are already situated or being proposed. While the mainstream discourse often focuses on energy usage and carbon footprint of the computing sector at a global scale, the local socio-environmental consequences -- such as heal…