@markhburton@mstdn.socialThis is a good introduction to the problem of reducing energy return on investment. How it works and what implications it has.
What Are the Broader Economic Implications of Low EROI? − Question https://energy.sustainability-director
@a_j_millar@fediscience.orgThe #EU reached a complicated compromise on the regulation of biotech #crops last Thursday. This is a significant step, from negotiations under the Danish presidency 🇩🇰. The proposal still needs to be ratified by the Council and @…, though both were already participating to reach this stage.
There's a lot of detail of course but one key biological aspect is that varieties with the smallest, so-called NGT-1 changes would no longer be regulated under GMO rules, and would be labelled for marketing as seeds but not their products thereafter. Not so for NGT-2.
➡️ https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2025/12/04/new-genomic-techniques-council-and-parliament-strike-deal-to-boost-the-competitiveness-and-sustainability-of-our-food-systems/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIllinois man admits to hacking Snapchat accounts to steal nude photos
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/illinois-man-admits-hacking-snapchat-accounts-steal-nude-photos-202…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social#ShockedShockedToFInd
Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show
https://www.thegu…
@paulwermer@sfba.social#ShockedShockedToFInd
Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show
https://www.thegu…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialYale University’s Bird-Friendly Building Initiative, a project that aims to accelerate the adoption of bird-friendly design in the built environment, has been recognized with a 2025 Excellence Award by the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN).
https://
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources and docs: India's government is considering forcing phone makers to enable always-on satellite location tracking; Apple, Google, and Samsung are opposed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues including the deceptive design of its blue checkmarks (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Retrocomputing emerges not only as a fun, recreational activity, but also as one with widely applicable skills, particularly for those working in sustainable computing, and those spreading its use in regions of the world where it has not yet reached peak maturity, and where refurbishing old hardware is an effective way to raise standards of living through computer tech. In this age of rising temperatures and rising oceans, reusing old computers is a very valuable skill."
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJust released! The new issue of the Divinity School journal, Reflections. The theme is: "A Faith that Sustains: Building Hope for a Living Planet." #ecotheology #sustainability #creationcare
@nemobis@mamot.frAlternative title: fossil fuel company defends #FossilSubsidies.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…
@axbom@axbom.me
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaDawn Foster will speak on 'Power Dynamics, Rug Pulls, and Other Corporate Impacts on OSS Sustainability' as part of our General track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presenta…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alAh, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Apple doesn't plan to comply with India's mandate to preload a state-owned cyber safety app on iPhones and will raise its concerns with New Delhi (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@brichapman@mastodon.socialEleven organizations just won a combined $5.9M for solutions that are actually changing lives.
The 2026 Zayed Sustainability Prize winners are tackling everything from AI diagnostics to eco-brick production. Since 2008, this prize has impacted over 411 million people through innovations in health, water, energy, and climate action.
@cdarwin@c.imUruguay used to rely heavily on oil & gas-based power.
But as the economy grew and electricity demand threatened to overtake supply from the early 2010s,
it needed to add additional generating capacity, and fast.
New hydro wasn’t an option as it had already made the most of that resource.
To chart the way forward, the president appointed Ramón Méndez Galain,
a particle physicist from the private sector,
as the country’s director of energy
— a pos…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Love, fear, anger and hope: how emotions influence climate action"
#Climate #ClimateChange
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndian government order: India's telecom ministry privately asks phonemakers to preload state cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on all new devices within 90 days (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialNutri3D Project - nutritional plant-based 3D printed food
https://www.media.enea.it/en/press-releases-and-news/years-archive/year-2025/food-from-m…
@markhburton@mstdn.social#Jeavons
Don’t Forget to Ask: What Happens to the Savings? - resilience
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-11-26/dont-forget-to-ask-what-happe…
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNGO links major chocolate brands to Liberia deforestation #Liberia
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineSustainability is current just a privilege. Only achievable by those who can afford it. Therefore it needs to be widely and generously subsidised.
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialDifferent Corners II ▶️
不同的角落 II ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Fujifilm NEOPAN SS, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@zachleat@zachleat.com@… Netlify had no financial interest in the future of the project — it was a charitable sponsorship! Direct contribution to the bottom line is the gold standard for sustainability (imo)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLION: from 2022-2024, local independent online news organizations with dedicated staff for revenue generation had median revenue 700% higher than those without (Eric Rynston-Lobel/Local News Initiative)
https://localnewsinitiative.northweste
@axbom@axbom.me
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialSalata Institute for Climate and Sustainability
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialWhat is #bbuzz all about?
Our video team captured the essence of #bbuzz on film: #bbuzz by joining us as a speaker! We are looking for talks on search, data science, streams, operations, scale, storage, people and community, society, ethics, sustainability, and more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-for-papers/
@cheryanne@aus.socialThe Built Environment
This podcast is about asking better questions about construction, design, sustainability, and how we live...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-built-environment/
@StephenRees@mas.toGuardian Exclusive
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
Jillian Ambrose
Sun 9 Nov 2025 08.00 GMT
Drax power plant has continued to burn 250-year-old trees sourced from some of Canada’s oldest forests despite growing scrutiny of its sustainability claims
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."
@gwire@mastodon.socialI've started telling people that the biggest change websites can make in terms of improving environmental sustainability, is to use clear, semantically rich, text mark-up along with well specced public APIs.
This will reduce, to some unknown aggregate, the amount of power and resources used by current and future agentic systems when interacting with them.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"This Netflix holiday rom-com is secretly an environmentalist fantasy"
#Film #Media #Environment
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeMassive cyberattack on Polish power system in December failed, minister says
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/massive-cyberattack-polish-power-system-december-failed-minister-says-2026…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
I think the technology could be used responsibly for narrow use cases (e.g. writing code is a narrow use case), with the very important caveat that the training data needs to be properly licensed and authors properly compensated (unless they licensed stuff free for commercial use); as well as companies offering it being transparent and honest about what LLMs actually do.
Anyway, even if that’s the case (and that’s a big if and certainly not the case today) I have serious doubts concerning the long-term financial sustainability of companies like idk Anthropic.
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialA welcome turning point. While electricity consumption continues to grow in China, large scale deployment of renewable energy generation means that coal-based generation has started to decline.
https://www.reuters.com/s…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzLas Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
@nemobis@mamot.fr"The railroad industry is slow to adopt new things" [electrified lines].
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/how-us-freight-rail-industry-got-dirtier-than-coal-power-plants-2025-12-14…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the White House will meet with banks and crypto firms on Monday to discuss a path forward for crypto legislation stalled by a clash between the sectors (Hannah Lang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@DamonHD@mastodon.social#today various bits of admin including starting things for this year's sustainability hackathon at uni, and very slowly and carefully* fetching and processing the extra 2025 house heating data set again (I'll do most tomorrow).
*Automation, I've heard of it! But it didn't work out so well last time, so I'm eyeballing probably millions of data points as I go this time...<…
@mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org @mxp@mastodon.acm.org
@kerstinsailer@sciences.socialCfP on transdisciplinary workplace research
Just a few more days until abstracts are due (14 Nov) for the 5th TWR (Transdisciplinary Workplace Research) conference, to be held in Zurich, 2-5 September 2026
Topics include physical and social workplace environments, sustainability, digital work, hybrid and new ways of working, occupational health, inclusion at work etc
More info and how to submit:
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de✅ entering #TSMC headquarters. We got a green #semiconductor manufacturing tour through fabs. Sustainability as a roadshow.
Then we visited a village that had been kindly asked to relocate for a new 2 nm fab. Cutting edges. The temple and local god had to move, too – better get the deity’…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to pay $135M to settle a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that the tech giant programmed Android to illegally collect users' cellular data (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@jonippolito@digipres.clubWe've updated the What Uses More app to reflect last week's finding by Luccioni and Gamazaychikov that "reasoning" mode increases energy and water usage by 30x. The study casts doubt on the improved efficiency AI companies are claiming for newer models
https://www.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"How to empower teachers and help students prepare for a sustainable future"
#Sustainability #Education
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOURNAL> Journal of Global Buddhism v 26, n 1
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialEU member states agree a position on draft child protection legislation without forcing Big Tech to find and remove CSAM; states now negotiate with EU lawmakers (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Dragofix@veganism.socialPulp giant RGE admits possible deforestation breach in Bornean wildlife habitat https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/pulp-giant-rge-admits-possible-deforestation-breach-in-bornean-wildlife-habitat/
@newsie@darktundra.xyzThe Video Game Industry’s Existential Crisis (with Jason Schreier) https://www.404media.co/the-video-game-industrys-existential-crisis-with-jason-schreier/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle agrees to pay $68M to settle a class action lawsuit claiming that Google Assistant inappropriately recorded private conversations on users' devices (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzLas Vegas Raiders reinforce Commitment to Excellence with 2025 Impact Playbook https://www.raiders.com/news/las-vegas-raiders-reinforce-commitment-to-excellence-with-2025-impact-playbook
@andycarolan@social.lolI was hired by the Brand, Design and Communications Agency Whistlejacket to produce illustrations for the WRAP "nudging strategy for reducing consumption of single-use disposable cups" in collab with the Swedish EPA.
#illustration #design #sustainability #coffee
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca“The Belem deal launches a voluntary initiative to speed up climate action to help nations meet their existing pledges to reduce emissions, and calls for rich nations to at least triple the amount of money they provide to help developing countries adapt to a warming world by 2035.”
This is suicide. We can’t adapt forever. Our civilization is based on 10,000 years of relatively stable climate. That climate is now changing in ways we can only guess at.
Yes we will have to adapt to what we have already done… but continuing to pump emissions into the atmosphere means we will continue to adapt to worse and worse and worse conditions until we can’t adapt anymore. No amount of money changes that.
When you can’t adapt… you die.
Canada and every provincial government is part of the problem. They are killing us now and killing our future.
#extinction #climate #climatedisaster #climateadaptation #endfossilfuels
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/cop30-talks-grind-into-overtime-eu-objects-proposed-deal-2025-11-22/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Will your clothes need a passport? EU targets fashion’s greenwashing with new rules"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Greenwashing
@axbom@axbom.me @Techmeme@techhub.socialChinese state media: China launches three VC funds of $7.1B each to back early-stage "hard technology" startups valued below ¥500M, or about $71M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFiling: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…
@rwell@social.linux.pizzaAmazing development; Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) steps away from providing iphones and samsung phones for employees, switching to the more managable, sustainable and more cost efficient #fairphone instead:
@primonatura@mstdn.social"How the 15-Minute Sustainable City Model Cuts Carbon by 98% While Growing Local Food"
#Sustainability
https://happyeconews.com/15-minute-sustainable-city/
@StephenRees@mas.toFirst Repair SPEC Café of 2026 on February 14th
Thanks to intense fundraising efforts, grants, and immense community support, we’ve been able to secure funding for 2026. We believe that it is the City’s responsibility to fund programs like Repair Cafés that align with their sustainability goals and that fundraising alone will not sustain the demand for Repair Cafés that exists.
📍Hastings Community Centre
📅 Saturday, February 14th
🕤 9:30am–1:30pm
Registration comin…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialBeer lovers and planet lovers, unite! Pubinno's smart tap system is revolutionizing draft beer service by slashing waste and boosting keg yields.
The results? Over 1.4 billion liters of water saved, plus industry awards for sustainability. It adjusts foam levels, works with any glass, and even handles nitro beers and sodas.
Best part: going green saves venues money too.
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOURNAL> Journal of Global Buddhism v 26, n 1
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge says her "tentative view" is to grant OpenAI's motion to dismiss xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets by poaching xAI employees (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices and infringement of EU data protection regulations (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Dragofix@veganism.socialScientists call for 'systems reset' to redefine sustainable development #environment
@relcfp@mastodon.socialJOURNAL> Journal of Global Buddhism v 26, n 1 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136290/journal-journal-global-buddhism-v-26-n-1
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: Italian police searched the offices of the country's data protection agency, one of EU's most proactive regulators, as part of a corruption probe (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@Dragofix@veganism.socialUp to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year #Europe
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTikTok plans to roll out a new age detection system, which analyzes profile information to predict whether a user is under 13, across Europe in the coming weeks (Supantha Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@primonatura@mstdn.social @brichapman@mastodon.social🌿 Oxford’s TIDE Centre launches the Nature’s Intelligence Studio at #COP30 — turning 3.4 billion years of evolution into solutions for today’s climate and energy challenges. Innovation inspired by the Amazon, for the planet. 🌍✨
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMicrosoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Chemicals companies ‘omitting details on hazardous substances from sustainability reporting’"
#Chemicals #Environment
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPoland's antitrust office UOKiK is probing whether Apple's ATT limits third-party data collection in mobile ads while giving Apple's own ads service an edge (Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialValue(s) in Practice: Impact and Sustainability in XR
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialDocument: Meta said last week that it would exclude Italy from its ban on rival AI chatbots on WhatsApp, after an order from the country's antitrust authority (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Up to 4,700 metric tons of litter flows down the Rhine each year"
#Rhine #Pollution #Litter
@brichapman@mastodon.socialIndia is rolling out millions of smart meters that are doing more than tracking energy use—they're fundamentally reshaping the grid.
As rooftop solar and EVs spread, decentralized RF mesh networks connect devices affordably while multiple vendors collaborate to keep the system resilient. The focus: financial sustainability and renewable energy ambitions.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDropbox says its CFO Timothy Regan will step down after five years in the role and will be succeeded by Avalara president Ross Tennenbaum; DBX drops 5% (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's antitrust authority orders Meta to suspend contractual terms that bar rival AI chatbots from WhatsApp; Meta calls the decision "fundamentally flawed" (Elvira Pollina/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/s…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialWikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialA Bahrain startup just proved you don't need to tear everything down to make buildings climate-resilient.
GeoStruXer used AI and satellite data to stabilize a warehouse in Saudi Arabia, cutting the required micropiles from 2,700 to far fewer—slashing materials, costs, and emissions while extending the structure's life another decade.
Their approach just won Bentley's sustainability award, beating 270 entries.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition authority closes its July 2024 probe into Google's alleged unfair practices over users' personal data after Google adopted remedies (Gianluca Semeraro/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialItaly's competition regulator opens two investigations into Microsoft's Activision Blizzard over sales practices it claims were "misleading and aggressive" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainab…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it does not do more to ensure Google Play complies with EU competition rules (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabili…
