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We need more of this 👇! BUT it cannot just be volunteer driven by prestige events - we need to move waste reduction into daily life.
Meet the attendees keeping Outside Lands green
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-outside-lands-sustainability-crew/

Of the thousands who attend Outside Lands, some 600 are sorting trash
Behind the scenes at Outside Lands, a few 600 are sorting each piece of trash from the festival, all day and night.

We need more of this 👇! BUT it cannot just be volunteer driven by prestige events - we need to move waste reduction into daily life.
Meet the attendees keeping Outside Lands green
https://missionlocal.org/2026/08/sf-outside-lands-sustainability-crew/

Of the thousands who attend Outside Lands, some 600 are sorting trash
Behind the scenes at Outside Lands, a few 600 are sorting each piece of trash from the festival, all day and night.

#sustainability
https://www.networkworld.com/article/4192827/meta-reuses-old-ram-in-new-servers-with-custom-bridge-chip.html…

Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip
The would-be AI infrastructure provider aims to solve the problem of rising memory prices in a cost-effective way.

Good to see: "The new rules will oblige public buyers in the EU to put more emphasis on quality and metrics such as environmental sustainability and local supply chains, rather than opting for the cheapest bid."
EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China

EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China
Authorities and public bodies to be urged to buy goods and services from Europe, but without binding quotas

Good to see: "The new rules will oblige public buyers in the EU to put more emphasis on quality and metrics such as environmental sustainability and local supply chains, rather than opting for the cheapest bid."
EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China

EU unveils ‘buy European’ public procurement rules to counter China
Authorities and public bodies to be urged to buy goods and services from Europe, but without binding quotas

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/pulp-and-paper-giant-april-adds-major-deforesters-as-suppliers-after-revising…

Pulp and paper giant APRIL adds major deforesters as suppliers after revising sustainability policy
JAKARTA — Pulp and paper giant APRIL made recent changes that are concerning to environmental groups. These changes include suspending and reviewing its flagship sustainability policy, lowering its deforestation commitments, and sourcing wood from two companies responsible for some of Indonesia’s largest recent forest losses. The company, part of the Singapore-headquartered Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) […]

"Future generations would rather have a high national debt than an unlivable planet."
Sandra Phlippen, ABN Amro bank's chief economist who moved on to become their head of sustainability, in @…
#ClimateChange

Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
The company’s annual sustainability report says sustainability solutions aren’t keeping up with AI energy demands.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/963728/microsoft-sustainability-report-2026

Microsoft’s carbon emissions went up 25 percent last year
Microsoft’s 2026 sustainability report shows that its carbon emissions spiked by 25 percent last year, despite its goal to be carbon negative by 2030.

A monthly selection of reprinted articles on #degrowth-related topics.
This month includes ones by Berman, Heinberg, Bardi, Tverberg.
Our @… was in last month's.
Mother Pelican ~ A Journal of Solidarity and Sustainability

"Ferrero achieves almost 100% traceability across supply chains"
#Ferrero #Chocolate
https://www.

Ferrero achieves almost 100% traceability across supply chains
According to its latest sustainability report, the Ferrero Group has reached near-total traceability across its cocoa, palm oil, hazelnut and coffee bean supply chains.

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Now we know just how much Big Tech’s pursuit of AI is costing the environment.
Both Google and Amazon released their sustainability reports this week,
and the numbers aren’t pretty.
Each company has pledged to zero-out its carbon emissions in the coming years,
but AI has made those goals a lot harder to hit.
🔥Google’s total carbon emissions are up 25% since last year, and
Amazon’s are up 16%.
A close reading of the reports suggests that both Amazon …

A warning sign about AI’s real cost, courtesy of Google and Amazon | TechCrunch
AI has made it a lot harder for tech companies like Amazon and Google to deliver on their net-zero pledges.

from my link log —
How sustainable is a solar powered website?
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html
saved 2020-02-15

How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
We present our website’s energy and uptime data, calculate the embodied energy of our configuration, consider the optimal balance between sustainability and server uptime, and outline possible improvements.

AWS is facing a lawsuit in the US alleging it misled the public about the water consumption and environmental impact of its datacentres in Northern Virginia.
The legal complaint claims AWS overstated progress towards its water sustainability goals while failing to disclose the full extent of its regional water use.

The Sustainable Minerals Institute Podcast
Committed to developing the transformative people, technologies and approaches to address global sustainability challenges through the responsible supply of mineral resources...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralia…

World of "environmentalism", "sustainability" and "recycling"...
I may have to send a perfectly fine car to the scrapyard cus of a tiny piece of metal. : D
(Trunk won't lock, the replacement part is unobtainable and without it, the car will be rejected by APK and no longer street legal)

The organization behind LibreOffice, The Document Foundation (aka TDF), has 18 employees.
Activities cover six applications, dozens of file formats and 120 languages.
The Foundation is funded almost entirely by private individuals who contribute small sums according to their means. Less than 10 per cent of the donations come from public bodies and companies.

The AI investment race
#ai #bubble

The AI investment race
The AI build-out ranks among the largest technology-driven investment booms in US history. Its scale, reliance on debt and circular equity ties raise questions about the boom's sustainability and financial stability. We study a dynamic contest in which firms competing for a few dominant positions over-commit resources. The over-investment leaves the sector exposed to revenue disappointment that could turn boom into bust. The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust. The race to commit earl…

Der Verlag Wiley wird einige Hybrid-Journals zu 2027 auf Gold Open Access umstellen: "The journals selected for this transition have been identified through a careful assessment process that considers factors such as funding availability, community readiness, and long-term sustainability." – "Community readiness" hatte ich bis dahin noch nie gehört. Man lernt nie aus! :)
#OpenAccess

Am 28.6. gibt es zur #Hamburg Sustainability Week einen Fancy Cyclista*Ride. Gendergerechte Stadtplanung/Fahrradinfrastruktur lässt sich schlecht mit einzelnen Parolen erfassen. Auch, weil FLINTA* so untersch. Herausforderungen haben. Zum Beispiel, dass Frauen 50 kein Problem haben, durch den Park zu fahren, weiblich gelesene Teenager aber schon. Nach dem Ride Veranstaltung mit

"Meat giant JBS silently ditches bolder environmental targets in latest review"
#Food #Environment

Meat giant JBS silently ditches bolder environmental targets in latest review
The world’s largest meatpacking company, JBS, has scrapped two of its key environmental goals in its latest annual sustainability report. JBS’s “Net Zero by 2040,” which aimed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout its supply chain, and zero deforestation targets were substantially rolled back compared to previous years, according to its 2025 Sustainability report, published July […]

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Introducing our new GÉANT Association Strategy 2026-2030: Powering Knowledge for Europe 🇪🇺
Built around three core goals: strengthening human networks, creating scalable digital services, and building financial sustainability.
And at its heart is a simple mission, to stay deeply relevant for our members and for Europe.
To mark this moment, we've also refreshed our visual identity — new logo, new website.
🔗 Read the full strategy and explore the new GÉANT:

"More than 100 companies ... urge governments to make electrification central to economic strategy"
"However, making the shift would depend heavily on clear and predictable government ​policy and reforms, including improving electricity market design, investing in grids and speeding up ​permitting"
I hope Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband take note.

Space for people, not cars: a large-scale visual choice experiment on urban street redesigns
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-026-00463-5

Space for people, not cars: a large-scale visual choice experiment on urban street redesigns - npj Urban Sustainability
Urban street reallocations and redesigns are central to sustainable mobility transitions, yet public acceptance remains a major challenge. While previous research has examined general attitudes toward transport policy, little is known about how specific design features shape support across diverse user groups. We conducted a large-scale stated choice experiment (N = 5991) embedded in a nationally representative mobility panel in Switzerland. Respondents evaluated navigable 360° and static …

The Mastodon "invite only" situation on many servers got so bad that now people are begging for invites on reddit.
It's really not great for the long term sustainability of the platform when it's so hard to join.
And no, I don't have any idea how to solve the spamming issue that caused so many servers to switch to invite only in the first place

Here it is, next year's International Degrowth Conference!
Pleased to be associated with it.
Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
https://www.goleordegrowth.com/cork-to-host-12th-international-degrowth-conference/

Cork City to host 12th International Degrowth Conference
From August 16th-20th 2027, Cork City will host “Go Leor!”,  the 12th International Conference and Festival for Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity - a transdisciplinary gathering of practitioners, activists, policymakers, scholars, educators, and artists focused on platforming and debating the degrowth movement.  Over five days, landmark venues across

Circular Economy Synergies and Trade-offs in Data Centres
Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}, Oana Dumbrav\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04571 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04571 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04571
arXiv:2608.04571v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This report analyses data centre (DC) sustainability and circularity, revealing existing synergies and trade-offs:
The PUE is too coarse, mixing cooling and power provisioning. It wrongly attributes server fan consumption and transformation losses to IT energy. It does not measure compute but infrastructure efficiency, which is already outstanding. Compute energy, however, is exploding. Better energy metrics for DCs would thus cover i) compute efficiency, ii) transformation efficiency, and iii) cooling overhead.
Trade-offs exist between cooling energy and water as well as on-site and upstream water: Consuming water on-site lowers the cooling energy, which also lowers the water consumed upstream in power generation. For 'wet' electricity, there is little competition: It is worth spending more on-site energy to save both electricity and related upstream water. For 'dry' electricity, there is a trade-off.
Waste heat recovery brings energy circularity but has limited uses and is not the same energy quality, a fact not reflected by current metrics. A better metric would consider the avoided energy through heat recovery instead of the amount recovered.
Material circularity can be achieved by interpreting the 9R framework in the context of DCs. Circularity-enhancing measures can be categorised into product design, process design and business models, choice of materials, and operating conditions. Together, they have effects across all circularity levels.
The relation between DCs and the power grid is complex. Modern DCs present new challenges for the grid. Mitigation includes battery storage and onsite generation. These measures have, in turn, further consequences, both beneficial and detrimental. They can offer grid flexibility as well as innovations in the field of energy. But they also bring noise, pollution, and GHGs, and compete with the energy sector for resources.
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An Evolving Cosmic Shoreline and Sandbar Bounding the Rocky Airless Valley: #planets have theory-defying atmospheres: https://sustainability.stanford.edu/news/why-some-planets-have-theory-defying-atmospheres - Stanford researchers have developed a model that explains how lava-covered worlds close to their stars can retain their atmospheres.

Given that Meta is answerable to no one other than its shareholders, one might expect a low standard of environmental reporting from the company – especially given the way it has made very public its repudiation of all things the present US administration might regard as woke. One would be wrong.

CfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
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"‘Carbon-neutral’ isn’t the goal, cutting emissions is"
#CarbonNetural #Emissions
https://www.

'Carbon-neutral' isn’t the goal, cutting emissions is - edie
Pip & Nut's supply chain and sustainability director, Adam Thompson, explains why the company's decision to step away from carbon neutrality is a good thing, enabling it to invest in supply chain decarbonisation, regenerative agriculture and climate resilience.

"Data centre boom drove Amazon’s emissions up 16% in 2025"
#Amazon #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Data centre boom drove Amazon’s emissions up 16% in 2025
According to its latest sustainability report, Amazon's absolute emissions across all scopes rose 16% in 2025, following a 6% increase the year before. The rise was largely driven by building and data centre construction.

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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"Sustainable medical electronics can reduce environmental impact by up to 65%"
#Technology #Environment #Health

Sustainable medical electronics can reduce environmental impact by up to 65%
While electronic devices have become an integral part of everyday life, the consumption of critical raw materials and energy demand associated with their production continue to rise. According to the European Commission's European Green Deal, Europe aims to become climate-neutral while maintaining a competitive economy by 2050, which calls for new approaches that consider sustainability not only at the end of a product's life cycle but also during the development phase.

"#Yesterday" - a nice little #movie with a bit of #music from #TheBeatles

"Sweeping victory for Europe as 15 nations top climate scoreboard – see the full list"
#Europe #Climate #ClimateChange

Estonia tops global sustainability rankings as US progress slips
Europe has come top in the latest Environmental Performance Index, partly due to the boom in renewables. But experts warn that more progress is needed.

This is what I want from so many of these products / services / companies.
I don't want growth. I want sustainability.
https://mastodon.social/@ianbobmorris/116917354945535952

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Asia: 5 July - 12 July
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I don't want to be that guy, I don't know how this biotech will pan out, but I really want to say:
Hey! I know the name of this Torment Nexus! It's called Korrok! From John Dies at the End!
#ArtificialIntelligenge #bioComputing #biologicalComputer #tech #biotech #dataCenters #computing #JohnDiesAtTheEnd #JasonPargin #JamesWong #books #movies #sciencefiction #corticalLabs #dayOne

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Scholar: 5 July - 12 July
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TOC: Journal of Chinese Buddhist Studies: Volume 39 (July 2026)
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-OralHist: 5 July - 12 July
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-AmIndian: 5 July - 12 July
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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Mideast-Medieval: 5 July - 12 July
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Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Japanese Buddhism — Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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New documentary study: Ioan Petru Culianu as a 1951 Convention refugee — the AAI/CIME Latina file (1972-1973)
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RSA 2027 Session: New Research Perspectives on Confraternity Studies: Collective Agency, Space and Materiality
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Society for the Study of Chinese Religions, Meeting in Conjunction “New Voices in the Study of Chinese Religions” at the EACS Biennial Conference, Venice, Italy
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