
2025-09-18 10:20:41
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-re…
Deliveroo CEO Will Shu will step down once its takeover by DoorDash takes effect; the deal is expected to close by October 2 (Yadarisa Shabong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-re…
Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
US targets steel, copper, lithium imports under Uyghur forced labor law (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/us-targets-steel-copper-lithium-imports-under-uyghur-forced-labor-law-2025-08-19/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250819/p53#a250819p53
Nice article about the importance of connecting data, harmony without orchestration of millions of small flexible energy actions, inspired by a post of mine.
https://nemlog.substack.com/p/sustainability-will-not-be-commanded
US DNI Tulsi Gabbard says the UK has agreed to drop its mandate requiring Apple to provide a backdoor for accessing users' encrypted data (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
"California advances climate action with new legislation"
#California #Climate #ClimateChange
The US FTC sues Key Investment Group, operator of sites like TotalTickets.com, for skirting ticket limits to buy up and resell live event tickets at a markup (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
Improving the FAIRness and Sustainability of the NHGRI Resources Ecosystem
Larry Babb, Carol Bult, Vincent J. Carey, Robert J. Carroll, Benjamin C. Hitz, Chris J. Mungall, Heidi L. Rehm, Michael C. Schatz, Alex Wagner, NHGRI Resource Workshop Community
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13498
Google will pay $30M to settle a class action lawsuit alleging it violated kids' privacy on YouTube by collecting data without parental consent for targeted ads (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Robots that Evolve with Us: Modular Co-Design for Personalization, Adaptability, and Sustainability
Lingyun Chen, Qing Xiao, Zitao Zhang, Eli Blevis, Selma \v{S}abanovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11622
Genuinely surprised the DoJ is following through on this given its new effort to marginalize disabled people.
“US sues Uber, alleges discrimination against disabled riders”
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
LUNDIsim: model meshes for flow simulation and scientific data compression benchmarks
Laurent Duval, Fr\'ed\'eric Payan, Christophe Preux, Lauriane Bouard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13636
Evaluating End-User Device Energy Models in Sustainability Reporting of Browser-Based Web Services
Maja H. Kirkeby, Timmie Lagermann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12566 https://
Bites of Tomorrow: Personalized Recommendations for a Healthier and Greener Plate
Jiazheng Jing, Yinan Zhang, Chunyan Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13870 https://
Sustainable AI Training via Hardware-Software Co-Design on NVIDIA, AMD, and Emerging GPU Architectures
Yashasvi Makin, Rahul Maliakkal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13163 https://
Energy Management and Wake-up for IoT Networks Powered by Energy Harvesting
David Ernesto Ruiz-Guirola, Samuel Montejo-Sanchez, Israel Leyva-Mayorga, Zhu Han, Petar Popovski, Onel L. A. Lopez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13825
Major US online retailers remove listings for millions of prohibited Chinese electronics
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/major-us-online-retailers-remove-listings-…
A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Devin Wingfield, Juan Guajardo Gutierrez, Mai Tran, Zhengyuan Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Haiqi Zhang, Abhishek Divakar Goudar, Chengkai Li, Virginia Jin, Timothy Propst, Dan Roberts, Catherine Stewart, Jianzhong Su, Jennifer Woodward-Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10965
Evaluating sugarcane bagasse-based biochar as an economically viable catalyst for agricultural and environmental advancement in Brazil through scenario-based economic modeling
Sebastian G. Nosenzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12454
Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
Rashmi Kamran, Mahesh Ganesh Bhat, Pranav Jha, Shana Moothedath, Manjesh Hanawal, Prasanna Chaporkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11289 ht…
A US district judge rules Amazon violated consumer law by collecting Prime subscribers' billing info before disclosing terms, handing the FTC a partial win (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/us-ftc-wins-key…
Cork (Ireland), will host the 12th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in 2027 with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
Cork 2027 | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/conference/cork-2027
Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/10/global-treaty-to-end-subsidies-for-destructive-fishing-takes-effect/
Australia's ACCC says Google agreed pay a ~$36M fine over deals from 2019-2021 with Telstra and Optus to pre-install only Google Search on Android phones (Himanshi Akhand/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators
C. Bloise, E. Cennini, J. Gutleber, W. Kaabi, A. Klumpp, P. Koppenburg, Y. Li, B. List, R. Losito, B. Mandelli, E. A. Nanni, N. Neufeld, T. Schoerner-Sadenius, B. Shepherd, V. Shiltsev, S. Stapnes, M. Titov, L. Ulrici, H. Wakeling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11705
CarAT: Carbon Atom Tracing across Industrial Chemical Value Chains via Chemistry Language Models
Emma Pajak, David Walz, Olga Walz, Laura Marie Helleckes, Klaus Hellgardt, Antonio del Rio Chanona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10216
Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08990 https://
#USA under #Drumpf insists on irksome negotiating table role as biggest obstacle to solving petty perennial #plastic #pollution
I wonder how Nazi Germany handled climate issues during the Holocaust. Do you think it was widely discussed at the time? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115179873107637672
From Canada's National Observer
Whistleblower Exposes How AI Fuels Big Oil Growth
"We realized we were basically working for an oil company," said Holly Alpine, a former Microsoft employee who quit her dream job on the company's sustainability team when she realized the company, like most tech companies, is helping fossil fuel companies extract more oil and gas."
#fossilfuels
Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…
6G Resilience -- White Paper
Hirley Alves, Nurul H. Mahmood, Onel L. A. L\'opez, Sumudu Samarakoon, Seppo Yrj\"ol\"a, Matti Latva-Aho, Markku Juntti, Ari Pouttu, Armin Dekorsy, Arthur Sousa de Sena, Aydin Sezgin, Bho Matthiesen, Chafika Benzaid, Chathuranga Weeraddana, David Hutchison, Dileepa Marasinghe, Doganalp Ergenc, Eduard Jorswieck, Erkki Harjula, Falko Dressler, Harri Saarnisaari, Italo Atzeni, Jaap Van De Beek, Jacek Rak, Konstantin Mikhaylov, Lauri Loven, Madhus…
Heading to @SustainableBrands next week? It’s my favorite gathering for people reimagining business through purpose and profit.
Lately I’m hearing from execs who feel their sustainability work is plateauing—not for lack of heart, but because the system itself resists the kind of change we’re trying to create. What are _you_ noticing?
If that’s on your mind too, let’s grab 15 minutes at SB to trade notes. I promise you’ll walk away with at least one useful perspective you hadn’t c…
Join me at two events at the British Library later this month:
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/knowledge-is-human
On 20 October, the British Library is joining forces with Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation to explore the impact of AI on ope…
Language of Persuasion and Misrepresentation in Business Communication: A Textual Detection Approach
Sayem Hossen, Monalisa Moon Joti, Md. Golam Rashed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09935
AI-Driven Collaborative Satellite Object Detection for Space Sustainability
Peng Hu, Wenxuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Mathematics with Actionable Case Studies
Maria Kleshnina, Matthew Holden, Ryan Heneghan, Kate Helmstedt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07594
"From Kemi Badenoch to Nigel Farage: How UK Plc’s sustainability leaders can respond to net-zero backlash"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sustainability
We have raspberries growing. When we lived in Seattle we grew kale and picked wild blackberries. All were so much better than anything you get in a grocery store.
I don't eat a lot of fruit these days because its so disappointing to take a bite out of a bland or bitter berry from a plastic carton..
https://m…
SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://
Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability
Ana\"elle Beignon, Thomas Thibault, Nolwenn Maudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08672 https://
Next-Generation Sustainable Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Meets Environmental Impact
Christo Kurisummoottil Thomas, Omar Hashash, Kimia Ehsani, Walid Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02395
Eco Radio
Eco Radio explores some of the strategies at the forefront of the move toward sustainability...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/eco-radio/
Filing: the SEC settles a lawsuit accusing crypto exchange Gemini of failing to register the Gemini Earn lending program before offering it to retail investors (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
BcQLM: Efficient Vision-Language Understanding with Distilled Q-Gated Cross-Modal Fusion
Sike Xiang, Shuang Chen, Amir Atapour-Abarghouei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08715 https:…
The Carbon Footprint Wizard: A Knowledge-Augmented AI Interface for Streamlining Food Carbon Footprint Analysis
Mustafa Kaan Aslan, Reinout Heijungs, Filip Ilievski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07733
Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Niki Mahmoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03321 https://arxiv.o…
Food Systems Overlooked in National Climate Plans, New Scorecard Shows https://vegconomist.com/sustainability-environment/food-systems-overlooked-national-climate-plans-new-scorecard-shows/
A Conceptual Model and Methodology for Sustainability-aware, IoT-enhanced Business Processes
Victoria Torres Bosch, Ronny Seiger, Manuela Albert Albiol, Antoni Mestre Gascon, Pedro Jose Valderas Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05301
"Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds"
#Trees #Environment
https://
Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration-2025-10-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p50#a251003p50
SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
Mohammed Ali, Abdelrahman Abdallah, Adam Jatowt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03000
Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Kevin Bradley Dsouza, Graham Alexander Watt, Yuri Leonenko, Juan Moreno-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06386
Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
Yiren Wang, Tianhao Zhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04780 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04780
New York sues Zelle, claiming that security lapses led to $1B in consumer fraud losses; the US CFPB dropped a similar case in March (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Martin Deron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05860
Integrating Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks for Sustainable 6G Operations: A Latency-Aware Multi-Tier Cell-Switching Approach
Metin Ozturk, Maryam Salamatmoghadasi, Halim Yanikomeroglu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10849
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/microsoft-says-some-sharepoint-server-hackers-now-using-ransomware-2025-07-23/
Microsoft says some SharePoint server hack…
Maximising Energy Efficiency in Large-Scale Open RAN: Hybrid xApps and Digital Twin Integration
Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi, Yi Chu, Gurdeep Singh, Charles Turyagyenda, Dritan Kaleshi, David Grace, Hamed Ahmadi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10097
Exclusive: US regulators cancel bank exams as Trump rollback gathers pace (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-regulators-cancel-bank-exams-trump-rollback-gathers-pace-2025-09-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p11#a250902p11
Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems
Alexander Felfernig, Damian Garber, Viet-Man Le, Sebastian Lubos, Thi Ngoc Trang Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22520 …
Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Satwik Ghanta, Peggy Gregory, Gul Calikli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12466 ht…
Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement
Hongjin Lin, Anna Kawakami, Catherine D'Ignazio, Kenneth Holstein, Krzysztof Gajos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12455 htt…
Paxos applies to create a US national trust bank, which would allow it to manage and hold assets for customers, following applications by Circle and Ripple (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
(2020) Economic growth is incompatible with biodiversity conservation #environment
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors, but says it can file further challenges (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/so…
What is required for a post-growth model?
Rob Van Eynde, Kevin J. Dillman, Jefim Vogel, Daniel W. O'Neill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07974 https://arxi…
Some Bollywood stars sue YouTube, seeking the removal of AI videos infringing their IP, and want safeguards to stop other AI models from training on such videos (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
Google is the first company to be designated with special status in the UK under new digital laws; the designation does not introduce any immediate requirements (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Sustaining Research Software: A Fitness Function Approach
Philipp Zech, Irdin Pekaric
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10085 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10085
"Why the future of sustainable furniture is pre-loved"
#Furniture #Sustainability
https://www.
Crypto exchange Gemini launches an Australian arm, Gemini Intergalactic Australia, to offer its services in the country after registering with regulator AUSTRAC (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
New York City sues Meta, Alphabet, Snap, and ByteDance, accusing them of fueling a mental health crisis among children by addicting them to social media (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-j…
"Millions of buildings at risk from sea level rise, analysis finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://ph…
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
State Department cable: Marco Rubio orders diplomats in Europe to lobby against the DSA, arguing it imposes free speech restrictions and high compliance costs (Humeyra Pamuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc…
Source: President Trump plans to sign the TikTok deal on Thursday (Nandita Bose/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/trump-will-sign-tiktok-deal-thursday-source-says-2025-09-24/…
Towards an Architectural Perspective for Sustainability: Bundle the Needs from Industry
Markus Funke, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20774 https://
Linda Yaccarino is named CEO of digital health platform eMed Population Health less than a month after stepping down as CEO of X (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-reg…
Towards Sustainability Model Cards
Gwendal Jouneaux, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19559
Two authors file a proposed class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging Apple knowingly used a dataset of pirated books to train its AI models (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-…
Elon Musk alleges Apple is violating antitrust laws by "making it impossible" for any AI firm but OpenAI to top its App Store, says xAI will take legal action (Surbhi Misra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustaina…
OpenAI asks a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it hired away xAI employees to steal trade secrets, calling the case part of Musk's "ongoing harassment" (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/bo…
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
The EU's General Court sides with Meta and TikTok in their legal dispute with the EC over the DSA's 0.05% supervisory fee, saying the EU's methodology is flawed (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustai…
Indonesia raises taxes on crypto sellers, from 0.1% to 0.21% in domestic exchanges, and from 0.2% to 1% in overseas exchanges, but removes VAT on buyers (Stefanno Sulaiman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
The US makes it harder for Samsung, SK Hynix, and Intel to produce chips in China by revoking waivers for the use of US equipment in their Chinese operations (Karen Freifeld/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
The UK Supreme Court denied Uber's appeal in a case over VAT, forcing Uber to pay a 20% VAT on fares outside London while rival private taxi operators pay none (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
Germany-based Makersite, which helps clients like Microsoft improve product sustainability during the design process, raised a €60M Series B (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2025/07/german
A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-j…
The EU launches an antitrust probe into SAP over its ERP software maintenance and support services, with a potential fine of ~10% of its annual global sales (Makini Brice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Source: President Trump will sign the TikTok deal on Thursday (Nandita Bose/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/trump-will-sign-tiktok-deal-thursday-source-says-2025-09-24/
Filing: CFPB scrapped a 2024 Apple credit card settlement implemented under Biden, ending oversight requirements years early; Apple had already paid a $25M fine (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
A US judge dismisses a lawsuit accusing Intel of defrauding shareholders by hiding problems in its foundry unit, news of which led to a $32B one-day stock fall (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Microsoft says the "Storm-2603" group is now deploying ransomware via vulnerable SharePoint server versions, as the estimated number of victims hits 400 (Raphael Satter/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/…
The DOJ says it will no longer target developers who create decentralized crypto platforms without criminal intent, as part of a regulatory retreat on crypto (Chris Prentice/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…