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"At De Gruyter Brill, we are committed to supporting rigorous academic research that drives meaningful change. As part of this vision and mission, we have launched "Sustainability Matters" - a podcast exploring how #sustainability shapes #research,

"Is plastic-free packaging always the most sustainable option?"
#Plastic #Plastics #Sustainability

"Swiss newspaper Le Temps said that files containing details of tens of thousands of UBS employees were stolen from the Baar-based business service company Chain IQ, whose website lists KPMG and Mizuho among its clients."
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Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/blogit/metsat/old-growth-forest-logging-resumed-in-finland-stora-enso-bre…

Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises - Greenpeace Suomi
In March we warned that forestry giant Stora Enso’s products may contain traces of old growth forests. Well now we know that they do, with fresh proof from Kainuu, Finland.…

Fuzzy location and allocation Hub Network Design for Air Cargo Transportation Considering Sustainability and Time Window
Ali Mohammad Malekdar, Mohsen Akbarpour Shirazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12064

Fuzzy location and allocation Hub Network Design for Air Cargo Transportation Considering Sustainability and Time Window
Hub location Problems seek to find hub facilities and assign non-hub nodes to them in such a way that the flow between origin and destination should be effectively established according to the desired goal. In general, in the literature of location, it is assumed that the time horizon of hub network design is a single time horizon. In the last two decades these problems have attracted special attention in the field of facility location problems and have wide applications in different fields inc…

The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction in the UK ad market (DhanushVignesh Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/

The UK CMA launches a probe into the planned $13.25B merger of ad giants Omnicom and Interpublic to assess potential competition reduction in the UK ad market (DhanushVignesh Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…

Spatial Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Assignment Based on Distance-Driven Demand and Customer Patience
Niloufar Mirzavand Boroujeni, Nasim Mirzavand Boroujeni, Nima Moradi, Saeed Jamalzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12671

Spatial Optimization of Autonomous Vehicle Assignment Based on Distance-Driven Demand and Customer Patience
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can improve efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance road safety. They optimize traffic flow, minimize congestion, and support sustainability through shared mobility and reduced fuel consumption. A key challenge in AV deployment is allocating vehicles to parking lots across regions to meet fluctuating demand. Proper allocation reduces delays, lowers costs, and boosts user satisfaction by ensuring timely vehicle availability. This paper explores the impact of customer wait…

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Rohit Mehra, Priyavanshi Pathania, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09370

Assessing the Impact of Refactoring Energy-Inefficient Code Patterns on Software Sustainability: An Industry Case Study
Advances in technologies like artificial intelligence and metaverse have led to a proliferation of software systems in business and everyday life. With this widespread penetration, the carbon emissions of software are rapidly growing as well, thereby negatively impacting the long-term sustainability of our environment. Hence, optimizing software from a sustainability standpoint becomes more crucial than ever. We believe that the adoption of automated tools that can identify energy-inefficient p…

EU would require €241-286 billion investment to keep its nuclear power capacity roughly at today's level, draft shows. It would increase from 97 now to 109 GW by 2050; that's 12%, sharply reducing its share of growing overall electricity demand.

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…

At the German #Perl Workshop, I had the privilege to organize a panel about #OpenSource #Sustainability on #CPAN…

May was world's second-hottest on record, EU scientists say (Kate Abnett/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/may-was-worlds-second-hottest-record-eu-scientists-say-2025-06-11/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p2#a250611p2

Meanwhile, while we continue to debate "the business case for sustainability": 
"92% of CFOs plan to invest more on sustainability this year due to the clear business case—and more than half say they plan to spend significantly more."

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
Alfredo Berm\'udez, Iago Pad\'in
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11765

State constrained stochastic optimal control of a PV system with battery storage via Fokker-Planck and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations
With the growing global emphasis on sustainability and the implementation of contemporary environmental policies, the penetration of renewable energy sources has significantly increased --primarily due to their inexhaustible nature. In this context, integrating photovoltaic (PV) modules with energy storage systems offers a means to mitigate the inherent variability of solar energy. This paper proposes an optimal methodology for power management and market bidding strategies tailored to PV power…

Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…

Bridging the Silos of Digitalization and Sustainability by Twin Transition: A Multivocal Literature Review
Baran Shajari, Istvan David
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04267

Bridging the Silos of Digitalization and Sustainability by Twin Transition: A Multivocal Literature Review
Twin transition is the method of parallel digital and sustainability transitions in a mutually supporting way or, in common terms, "greening of and by IT and data." Twin transition reacts to the growing problem of unsustainable digitalization, particularly in the ecological sense. Ignoring this problem will eventually limit the digital adeptness of society and the problem-solving capacity of humankind. Information systems engineering must find ways to support twin transition journeys through it…

Sustainability is not just about preserving the future—it's about reimagining the present
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-smartphones-life-tiny-centers.html

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
Priyavanshi Pathania, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08812

Towards a Knowledge Base of Common Sustainability Weaknesses in Green Software Development
With the climate crisis looming, engineering sustainable software systems become crucial to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and foster a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. For developers, getting access to automated tools that analyze code and suggest sustainabilityrelated optimizations becomes extremely important from a learning and implementation perspective. However, there is currently a dearth of such tools due to the lack of standardized knowledge, whi…

AI Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Conveyor for Automated Assembly Production
Ray Wai Man Kong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08039 https://…

AI Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Conveyor for Automated Assembly Production
Efficiency, speed, and precision are essential in modern manufacturing. AI Maglev Conveyor system, combining magnetic levitation (maglev) technology with artificial intelligence (AI), revolutionizes automated production processes. This system reduces maintenance costs and downtime by eliminating friction, enhancing operational efficiency. It transports goods swiftly with minimal energy consumption, optimizing resource use and supporting sustainability. AI integration enables real-time monitorin…

Getty's copyright lawsuit against Stability AI begins at London's High Court, accusing it of unlawfully scraping millions of images; Stability denies the claims (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

“We need to go beyond legislation to a cultural change, where disability is treated as an identity to be celebrated.”
Brilliant article in the FT on housing design for disability and the aesthetics of accessibility
https://www.ft.com/content/05309cf9-96d9-460…

The aesthetics of accessibility: design for disability that’s dynamic not dreary
Architecture is at a fertile inflection point. But while housebuilding goals, sustainability and retrofitting are dominating the agenda, why does accessibility too often remain an afterthought?

I wouldn't mind an RZE UTD-8000 (specifically the yellow one) but in Norway with taxes and everything that comes out at 2800kr… so yeah, I will probably save the money and keep it for future cycle purchaes.
https://www.rzewatches.com/pages/utd-8000-launch

UTD-8000 Launch
Built for the everyday adventurer, RZE Watches is a brand born out of the passion for perfecting the craft of titanium watches that fuse together durability, versatility and sustainability.

Pan-European consumer group BEUC files a complaint with the EC against Shein over its alleged use of "dark patterns", after targeting Temu in 2024 (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/she

Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Samarth Sikand, Rohit Mehra, Vibhu Saujanya Sharma, Vikrant Kaulgud, Sanjay Podder, Adam P. Burden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08790

Do Generative AI Tools Ensure Green Code? An Investigative Study
Software sustainability is emerging as a primary concern, aiming to optimize resource utilization, minimize environmental impact, and promote a greener, more resilient digital ecosystem. The sustainability or "greenness" of software is typically determined by the adoption of sustainable coding practices. With a maturing ecosystem around generative AI, many software developers now rely on these tools to generate code using natural language prompts. Despite their potential advantages, there is a …

📣 Another great milestone for the #GÉANT project!
The GN5-1 project has successfully completed its final review by the European Commission—recognising strong performance, technical achievements, and commitment to innovation and sustainability, all aligned with the Horizon Europe programme’s goals.
👏 A big thank you to all contributors involved. Your dedication continues to drive our …

GÉANT’s GN5-1 Project completes another successful EC Review | GÉANT CONNECT Online
GÉANT’s GN5-1 project has successfully completed the Period 2 review by the European Commission (EC), marking another key milestone in the project’s continued delivery of cutting-edge networking and collaboration services to Europe’s research and education community. The review, which took place at the end of March 2025, covered the second reporting period of the project.

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Franco Alberto Cardillo, Franca Debole, Francesca Frontini, Mitra Aelami, Nan\'ee Chahinian, Serge Conrad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01938

Novel Benchmark for NER in the Wastewater and Stormwater Domain
Effective wastewater and stormwater management is essential for urban sustainability and environmental protection. Extracting structured knowledge from reports and regulations is challenging due to domainspecific terminology and multilingual contexts. This work focuses on domain-specific Named Entity Recognition (NER) as a first step towards effective relation and information extraction to support decision making. A multilingual benchmark is crucial for evaluating these methods. This study deve…

A sustainability expert weighs in on the environmental impact of #generativeAI https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-chatgpt

What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT?
Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…

Adaptive recycled plastic architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design
Yi Xu, Farzin Lotfi-Jam, Mustafa Faruki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04660

Adaptive recycled plastic architecture: Vacuum-Sealed Chainmail Structures Through Computational Design
The construction industry is a major consumer of raw materials, accounting for nearly half of global material usage annually, while generating significant waste that poses sustainability challenges. This paper explores the untapped potential of recycled plastics as a primary construction material, leveraging their lightweight, flexible, and customizable properties for advanced applications in modular chainmail systems. Through a computational workflow, the study optimizes the design, testing, a…

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for #NuclearPower Plants, Lowest for #Solar

Investment Risk for Energy Infrastructure Construction Is Highest for Nuclear Power Plants, Lowest for Solar - CleanTechnica
A new study from the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability finds that construction costs run over budget for more than 60% of energy infrastructure projects worldwide. By Laura Hurley Between now and 2050, the International Energy Agency projects that more than $100 trillion will be spent on building net-zero energy infrastructure globally. ... [continued]

Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cli

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Resolution of Process-Based Life Cycle Analysis with Model-Based Systems Engineering \& Hetero-functional Graph Theory
Niraj Gohil, Nawshad Haque, Amgad Elgowainy, Amro M. Farid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00230

Enhancing Spatio-Temporal Resolution of Process-Based Life Cycle Analysis with Model-Based Systems Engineering \& Hetero-functional Graph Theory
Life cycle analysis (LCA) has emerged as a vital tool for assessing the environmental impacts of products, processes, and systems throughout their entire lifecycle. It provides a systematic approach to quantifying resource consumption, emissions, and waste, enabling industries, researchers, and policymakers to identify hotspots for sustainability improvements. By providing a comprehensive assessment of systems, from raw material extraction to end-of-life disposal, LCA facilitates the developmen…

Just found @…'s 2019 blog post looking at the Prisoner's Dilemma as a way to describe Open Source sustainability,
https://dri.es/balancing-makers-and…

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…

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…

Direct laser ablation of 2D material films for fabricating multi-functional flexible and transparent devices
Yigit Sozen, Yu Kyoung Ryu, Javier Martinez, Andres Castellanos-Gomez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03730

Direct laser ablation of 2D material films for fabricating multi-functional flexible and transparent devices
We present a scalable method for direct patterning of graphite and transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) films on polycarbonate (PC) and other transparent substrates using fiber laser ablation. This process facilitates the fabrication of various functional devices, including strain gauges, supercapacitors, and photodetector arrays, without the need for photolithography or solvents, thereby simplifying device production and enhancing environmental sustainability. Utilizing roll-to-roll mechanica…

It's pretty cool how the complete commodity chain of a pair of pants can be inspected on the web site of Nudie Jeans. #pants #commodity #anthropology #sustainability

Epic v. Apple: a US appeals court rejects Apple's request to pause key parts of a federal judge's order requiring it to open the App Store to more competition (Mike Scarcella/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

Energy Consumption Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles via Positive Control Input Minimization
Andreas Hadjigeorgiou, Stelios Timotheou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04685

Energy Consumption Optimization for Autonomous Vehicles via Positive Control Input Minimization
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) present a unique opportunity to improve the sustainability of transportation systems by adopting eco-driving strategies that reduce energy consumption and emissions. This paper introduces a novel surrogate model for energy and fuel consumption that minimizes Positive Control Input (PCI). Unlike conventional objectives such as squared acceleration, which often misrepresent actual energy usage, PCI provides a more accurate and optimization-friendly alternative. Building …

Microsoft launches a free cybersecurity program for European governments to boost defenses against AI-enhanced threats, particularly state-sponsored attacks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabil…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00605 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCE_…

A batch production scheduling problem in a reconfigurable hybrid manufacturing-remanufacturing system
In recent years, remanufacturing of End-of-Life (EOL) products has been adopted by manufacturing sectors as a competent practice to enhance their sustainability and market share. Due to the mass customization of products and high volatility of market, processing of new products and remanufacturing of EOLs in the same shared facility, namely Hybrid Manufacturing-Remanufacturing System (HMRS), is a mean to keep such production efficient. Accordingly, customized production capabilities are require…

Something to think about, for all of us whose work is directly or indirectly connected to this (it's not just Meta, many others are doing similar stuff).
#cloud #CloudComputing #datacenters #datacenter #sustainability

Human-in-the-loop: Real-time Preference Optimization
Wenbin Wang, Wenjie Xu, Colin N. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02225 https://…

Human-in-the-loop: Real-time Preference Optimization
Human-aware controllers play an important role in engineering systems for improving productivity, efficiency, and sustainability. It is essential to design such a controller that optimizes user utility while adhering to plant dynamics. While most online optimization algorithms rely on first-order or zeroth-order oracles, human feedback often appears as pairwise comparisons. In this work, we propose an online feedback optimization algorithm that leverages such preference feedback. We design a co…