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Cyprus's financial regulator grants a crypto license to Revolut, allowing the startup to offer crypto services across the EU under new regulations (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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…

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/…

Trace Replay Simulation of MIT SuperCloud for Studying Optimal Sustainability Policies
Wesley Brewer, Matthias Maiterth, Damien Fay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16513 https://

Trace Replay Simulation of MIT SuperCloud for Studying Optimal Sustainability Policies
The rapid growth of AI supercomputing is creating unprecedented power demands, with next-generation GPU datacenters requiring hundreds of megawatts and producing fast, large swings in consumption. To address the resulting challenges for utilities and system operators, we extend ExaDigiT, an open-source digital twin framework for modeling power, cooling, and scheduling of supercomputers. Originally developed for replaying traces from leadership-class HPC systems, ExaDigiT now incorporates hetero…

Economic Complexity Alignment and Sustainable Development
Quinten De Wettinck, Karolien De Bruyne, Wouter Bam, C\'esar A. Hidalgo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17919 https://…

Economic Complexity Alignment and Sustainable Development
Economic complexity has been linked to sustainability outcomes, such as income inequality and greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, it is unclear whether the pursuit of complex and/or related activities naturally aligns with these outcomes, or whether meeting sustainability goals requires policy interventions that pursue unrelated diversification. Here, we exploit multidimensional social and environmental sustainability indicators to quantify the alignment between a country's closest diversification o…

"Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability"
#Consumerism #Disposability
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Consumed by convenience: The culture of disposability
When Saabira Chaudhuri began covering consumer-goods companies for The Wall Street Journal, she thought she was writing about marketing campaigns, product launches, and quarterly results. What she found instead was a tale of industrial ingenuity turned liability: a business model built on disposability, dressed up in the rhetoric of sustainability. Her new book, Consumed: How […]

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…

Power as a Platform: The Role of Real Estate in the Grid of the Future
AFIRE - August 21
“Multifamily buildings are evolving from captive energy consumers to grid-connected assets. This transformation unlocks financial returns, mitigates risk, and delivers on rising regulatory and capital market expectations.”
https://www.…

The Role of Real Estate in the Grid of the Future | Summit Journal
Susan Uthayakumar, Chief Energy and Sustainability Officer for Prologis, discusses how buildings have become critical energy infrastructure.

Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Mobina Noori, Mahasweta Chakraborti, Amy X Zhang, Seth Frey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16295

Patterns in the Transition From Founder-Leadership to Community Governance of Open Source
Open digital public infrastructure needs community management to ensure accountability, sustainability, and robustness. Yet open-source projects often rely on centralized decision-making, and the determinants of successful community management remain unclear. We analyze 637 GitHub repositories to trace transitions from founder-led to shared governance. Specifically, we document trajectories to community governance by extracting institutional roles, actions, and deontic cues from version-control…

These items are going to be in today's Metacurity, but it's not only Jaguar Land Rover who are being targeted by malicious actors.
Stellantis, Chrysler's parent, announced it experienced unauthorized access to its N. American customer platform.

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

Sustainability Will Not Be Commanded; It Will Be Coded
How smarter signals, flexible habits, and open systems could turn energy abundance into everyday opportunity

I've been sharing the word about #AI4LAM at the first 'AI Indaba and Library Technology Expo' in South Africa. Some great speakers on the livestream if you're curious about the South African library perspective on AI, innovation and sustainability

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

Post crisis Strategies: Antifragility Principles as Catalysts for Urban Evolution Towards Sustainability
Joseph Uguet, Nicola Tollin, Jordi Morat\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15245

Post crisis Strategies: Antifragility Principles as Catalysts for Urban Evolution Towards Sustainability
Urban crises reveal the true essence of cities: their ability to either withstand disorder or collapse under its pressure. This article explores how antifragility principles can transforms urban disruption into levers for reinforcement and innovation. While resilience seeks to restore a lost balance, antifragility goes further: it pushes cities to improve through shocks. Across a critical analysis of post-crisis strategies and the identification of fifteen fundamental theoretical principles, th…

☣️ In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/29/sustainability/philippine-e-waste-dismantle-health/
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In the Philippines, informal e-waste dismantling poses health risks
Scavenging electronic waste for the nickel, aluminum and copper inside releases a toxic brew of chemicals, including lead, mercury and cadmium, into the air.

A multi-temporal multi-spectral attention-augmented deep convolution neural network with contrastive learning for crop yield prediction
Shalini Dangi, Surya Karthikeya Mullapudi, Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw, Shahid Shafi Dar, Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman, Nagendra Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15966

A multi-temporal multi-spectral attention-augmented deep convolution neural network with contrastive learning for crop yield prediction
Precise yield prediction is essential for agricultural sustainability and food security. However, climate change complicates accurate yield prediction by affecting major factors such as weather conditions, soil fertility, and farm management systems. Advances in technology have played an essential role in overcoming these challenges by leveraging satellite monitoring and data analysis for precise yield estimation. Current methods rely on spatio-temporal data for predicting crop yield, but they …

SLM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Small Language Models on Environmental Impacts -- Extended Version
Nghiem Thanh Pham, Tung Kieu, Duc-Manh Nguyen, Son Ha Xuan, Nghia Duong-Trung, Danh Le-Phuoc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15478

SLM-Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Small Language Models on Environmental Impacts -- Extended Version
Small Language Models (SLMs) offer computational efficiency and accessibility, yet a systematic evaluation of their performance and environmental impact remains lacking. We introduce SLM-Bench, the first benchmark specifically designed to assess SLMs across multiple dimensions, including accuracy, computational efficiency, and sustainability metrics. SLM-Bench evaluates 15 SLMs on 9 NLP tasks using 23 datasets spanning 14 domains. The evaluation is conducted on 4 hardware configurations, provid…

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…

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

Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08990 https://

Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Software systems are a significant contributor to global sustainability concerns, demanding that environmental, social, technical, and economic factors be systematically addressed from the initial requirements engineering phase. Although existing research provides various sustainability requirements (SRs), these contributions are often fragmented, specific to certain dimensions, or limited to particular application domains, resulting in a critical lack of a unified, comprehensive taxonomy for t…

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

Robots that Evolve with Us: Modular Co-Design for Personalization, Adaptability, and Sustainability
Many current robot designs prioritize efficiency and one-size-fits-all solutions, oftentimes overlooking personalization, adaptability, and sustainability. To explore alternatives, we conducted two co-design workshops with 23 participants, who engaged with a modular robot co-design framework. Using components we provided as building blocks, participants combined, removed, and invented modules to envision how modular robots could accompany them from childhood through adulthood and into older adu…

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

Improving the FAIRness and Sustainability of the NHGRI Resources Ecosystem
In 2024, NHGRI-funded genomic resource projects completed a Self-Assessment Tool (SAT) and interviews to evaluate their application of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles and sustainability. Key challenges were identified in metadata tools, data curation, variant identifiers, and data processing. Addressing these needs, we engaged the community through webinars and discussions, leading to a two-day workshop in March 2025. The workshop developed targeted recommendatio…

A lawyer says 55 Chinese iPhone and iPad users filed an antitrust complaint in China alleging Apple abuses its market dominance by restricting app distribution (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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

Cork 2027
Coming in August 2027 the 12th Conference will take place in Ireland, with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania). With a thematic focus on "policy, practice and culture" the event aims to help accelerate the decolonial momentum of the just transition, celebrating diverse, pluriversal voices from around the world and turning a critical eye on the extractivist policies.

Bites of Tomorrow: Personalized Recommendations for a Healthier and Greener Plate
Jiazheng Jing, Yinan Zhang, Chunyan Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13870 https://

Bites of Tomorrow: Personalized Recommendations for a Healthier and Greener Plate
The recent emergence of extreme climate events has significantly raised awareness about sustainable living. In addition to developing energy-saving materials and technologies, existing research mainly relies on traditional methods that encourage behavioral shifts towards sustainability, which can be overly demanding or only passively engaging. In this work, we propose to employ recommendation systems to actively nudge users toward more sustainable choices. We introduce Green Recommender Aligned…

Food Systems Overlooked in National Climate Plans, New Scorecard Shows https://vegconomist.com/sustainability-environment/food-systems-overlooked-national-climate-plans-new-scorecard-shows/

Food Systems Overlooked in National Climate Plans, New Scorecard Shows - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new evaluation tool, the Food Systems NDC Scorecard, launched today by Mercy For Animals and its partners, assesses how countries are incorporating food

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://

Sustainable AI Training via Hardware-Software Co-Design on NVIDIA, AMD, and Emerging GPU Architectures
In particular, large-scale deep learning and artificial intelligence model training uses a lot of computational power and energy, so it poses serious sustainability issues. The fast rise in model complexity has resulted in exponential increases in energy consumption, increasing the demand for techniques maximizing computational efficiency and lowering environmental impact. This work explores environmentally driven performance optimization methods especially intended for advanced GPU architectur…

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

Energy Management and Wake-up for IoT Networks Powered by Energy Harvesting
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) presents sustainability challenges such as increased maintenance requirements and overall higher energy consumption. This motivates self-sustainable IoT ecosystems based on Energy Harvesting (EH). This paper treats IoT deployments in which IoT devices (IoTDs) rely solely on EH to sense and transmit information about events/alarms to a base station (BS). The objective is to effectively manage the duty cycling of the IoTDs to prolong battery life a…

"California advances climate action with new legislation"
#California #Climate #ClimateChange

Comparing energy consumption and accuracy in text classification inference
Johannes Zschache, Tilman Hartwig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14170 https://arxiv…

Comparing energy consumption and accuracy in text classification inference
The increasing deployment of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing (NLP) tasks raises concerns about energy efficiency and sustainability. While prior research has largely focused on energy consumption during model training, the inference phase has received comparatively less attention. This study systematically evaluates the trade-offs between model accuracy and energy consumption in text classification inference across various model architectures and hardware configurati…

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

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://

Evaluating End-User Device Energy Models in Sustainability Reporting of Browser-Based Web Services
Sustainability reporting in web-based services increasingly relies on simplified energy and carbon models such as the Danish Agency of Digital Government's Digst framework and the United Kingdom-based DIMPACT model. Although these models are widely adopted, their accuracy and precision remain underexplored. This paper presents an empirical study evaluating how well such models reflect actual energy consumption during realistic user interactions with common website categories. Energy use was mea…

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

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.

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…

Energy-Aware 6G Network Design: A Survey
6th Generation (6G) mobile networks are envisioned to support several new capabilities and data-centric applications for unprecedented number of users, potentially raising significant energy efficiency and sustainability concerns. This brings focus on sustainability as one of the key objectives in the their design. To move towards sustainable solution, research and standardization community is focusing on several key issues like energy information monitoring and exposure, use of renewable energ…

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

CarAT: Carbon Atom Tracing across Industrial Chemical Value Chains via Chemistry Language Models
The chemical industry is increasingly prioritising sustainability, with a focus on reducing carbon footprints to achieve net zero. By 2026, the Together for Sustainability (TfS) consortium will require reporting of biogenic carbon content (BCC) in chemical products, posing a challenge as BCC depends on feedstocks, value chain configuration, and process-specific variables. While carbon-14 isotope analysis can measure BCC, it is impractical for continuous industrial monitoring. This work presents…

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

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

Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators
The Large Particle Physics Laboratory Directors Group (LDG) established the Working Group (WG) on the Sustainability Assessment of Future Accelerators in 2024 with the mandate to develop guidelines and a list of key parameters for the assessment of the sustainability of future accelerators in particle physics. While focused on accelerator projects, much of the work will also be relevant to other present and upcoming research infrastructures. The development and continuous update of such a frame…

Towards AI-based Sustainable and XR-based human-centric manufacturing: Implementation of ISO 23247 for digital twins of production systems
Huizhong Cao, Henrik S\"oderlund, Qi Fang, Siyuan Chen, Lejla Erdal, Ammar Gubartalla, Paulo Victor Lopes, Guodong Shao, Per Lonnehed, Henri Putto, Abbe Ahmed, Sven Ekered, Bj\"orn Johansson
https://

Towards AI-based Sustainable and XR-based human-centric manufacturing: Implementation of ISO 23247 for digital twins of production systems
Since the introduction of Industry 4.0, digital twin technology has significantly evolved, laying the groundwork for a transition toward Industry 5.0 principles centered on human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. Through digital twins, real-time connected production systems are anticipated to be more efficient, resilient, and sustainable, facilitating communication and connectivity between digital and physical systems. However, environmental performance and integration with virtual re…

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

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contes…

AI-Driven Collaborative Satellite Object Detection for Space Sustainability
Peng Hu, Wenxuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

AI-Driven Collaborative Satellite Object Detection for Space Sustainability
The growing density of satellites in low-Earth orbit (LEO) presents serious challenges to space sustainability, primarily due to the increased risk of in-orbit collisions. Traditional ground-based tracking systems are constrained by latency and coverage limitations, underscoring the need for onboard, vision-based space object detection (SOD) capabilities. In this paper, we propose a novel satellite clustering framework that enables the collaborative execution of deep learning (DL)-based SOD tas…

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…

6G Resilience -- White Paper
6G must be designed to withstand, adapt to, and evolve amid prolonged, complex disruptions. Mobile networks' shift from efficiency-first to sustainability-aware has motivated this white paper to assert that resilience is a primary design goal, alongside sustainability and efficiency, encompassing technology, architecture, and economics. We promote resilience by analysing dependencies between mobile networks and other critical systems, such as energy, transport, and emergency services, and illus…

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…

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

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

Next-Generation Sustainable Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Meets Environmental Impact
Aligning with the global mandates pushing towards advanced technologies with reduced resource consumption and environmental impacts, the sustainability of wireless networks becomes a significant concern in 6G systems. To address this concern, a native integration of sustainability into the operations of next-generation networks through novel designs and metrics is necessary. Nevertheless, existing wireless sustainability efforts remain limited to energy-efficient network designs which fail to c…

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

LUNDIsim: model meshes for flow simulation and scientific data compression benchmarks
The volume of scientific data produced for and by numerical simulation workflows is increasing at an incredible rate. This raises concerns either in computability, interpretability, and sustainability. This is especially noticeable in earth science (geology, meteorology, oceanography, and astronomy), notably with climate studies. We highlight five main evaluation issues: efficiency, discrepancy, diversity, interpretability, availability. Among remedies, lossless and lossy compression techn…

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 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

A Conceptual Model and Methodology for Sustainability-aware, IoT-enhanced Business Processes
The real-time data collection and automation capabilities offered by the Internet of Things (IoT) are revolutionizing and transforming Business Processes (BPs) into IoT-enhanced BPs, showing high potential for improving sustainability. Although already studied in Business Process Management (BPM), sustainability research has primarily focused on environmental concerns. However, achieving a holistic and lasting impact requires a systematic approach to address sustainability beyond the environmen…

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…

Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Niki Mahmoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03321 https://arxiv.o…

Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Sustainability is increasingly recognized as a critical dimension of engineering education, yet its integration into Software Engineering curricula remains a challenge. This paper reports on a case study that examines how sustainability is being embedded across modules in the Software Engineering program at one university. The paper outlines the process through which academics and students co-identified opportunities for integration, guided by the five dimensions of the Sustainability Awareness…

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/

Global treaty to end subsidies for destructive fishing takes effect
A landmark global treaty to curb billions of dollars in government subsidies for overfishing took effect on Sept. 15, Mongabay contributor Elizabeth Fitt reported. The agreement marks the first time the World Trade Organization (WTO) has approved an environmental sustainability agreement in its 30-year history. The deal came into effect after Brazil, Kenya, Tonga and […]

"From Kemi Badenoch to Nigel Farage: How UK Plc’s sustainability leaders can respond to net-zero backlash"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sustainability

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

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…

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 …

Sustainability Evaluation Metrics for Recommender Systems
Sustainability-oriented evaluation metrics can help to assess the quality of recommender systems beyond wide-spread metrics such as accuracy, precision, recall, and satisfaction. Following the United Nations`s sustainable development goals (SDGs), such metrics can help to analyse the impact of recommender systems on environmental, social, and economic aspects. We discuss different basic sustainability evaluation metrics for recommender systems and analyze their applications.

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this p…

Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
Yiren Wang, Tianhao Zhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04780 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04780

Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
The record-breaking heat in recent years, along with other extreme weather conditions worldwide has not only warned us about the devastating effects of global warming but also revived our interest in studying sustainability risks on a broader scale. In this paper, we propose a generalised model of sustainability risks characterising the economic-environmental-social nexus (EVS) based on a classic Lotka-Volterra framework. Compared to the World3 model proposed by Meadows et al. (1972) in their l…

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…

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…

Knowledge is Human: The Information Ecosystem in the age of AI
A summit to mark the role of human-created, open knowledge in the age of AI and our collective responsibility to safeguard knowledge integrity and sustainability.

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

Bridging Farm Economics and Landscape Ecology for Global Sustainability through Hierarchical and Bayesian Optimization
Agricultural landscapes face the dual challenge of sustaining food production while reversing biodiversity loss. Agri-environmental policies often fall short of delivering ecological functions such as landscape connectivity, in part due to a persistent disconnect between farm-level economic decisions and landscape-scale spatial planning. We introduce a novel hierarchical optimization framework that bridges this gap. First, an Ecological Intensification (EI) model determines the economically opt…

Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability
Ana\"elle Beignon, Thomas Thibault, Nolwenn Maudet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08672 https://

Imposing AI: Deceptive design patterns against sustainability
Generative AI is being massively deployed in digital services, at a scale that will result in significant environmental harm. We document how tech companies are transforming established user interfaces to impose AI use and show how and to what extent these strategies fit within established deceptive pattern categories. We identify two main design strategies that are implemented to impose AI use in both personal and professional contexts: imposing AI features in interfaces at the expense of exis…

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

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-…

Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Martin Deron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05860

Sprouting technology otherwise, hospicing negative commons -- Rethinking technology in the transition to sustainability-oriented futures
Due to its significant and growing environmental harms, both directly through its materiality and indirectly through its pervasive integration into unsustainable economic systems, ICT will need to be radically redirected to align with sustainability-oriented futures. While the role of ICT in such futures will likely diverge significantly from current dynamics, it will probably not be entirely disconnected from the present. Instead, such transition involves complex dynamics of continuity, adapta…

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

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

SustainableQA: A Comprehensive Question Answering Dataset for Corporate Sustainability and EU Taxonomy Reporting
The growing demand for corporate sustainability transparency, particularly under new regulations like the EU Taxonomy, necessitates precise data extraction from large, unstructured corporate reports. Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, requires high-quality, domain-specific question-answering (QA) datasets to excel at particular domains. To address this, we introduce SustainableQA, a novel dataset and a scalable pipeline for generating a comprehensive …

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…

"Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds"
#Trees #Environment
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Urban heat relief: Trees need water and space to maximize cooling, study finds
Urban trees are often seen as natural allies in fighting summer heat waves. But how much they actually help to cool their surroundings depends heavily on how moist the soil is. This is the main finding of a new study led by environmental engineers at ETH Zurich and Eawag published in npj Urban Sustainability, which investigated several urban neighborhoods in Zurich.

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

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

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

A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Soil organic carbon is crucial for climate change mitigation and agricultural sustainability. However, understanding its dynamics requires integrating complex, heterogeneous data from multiple sources. This paper introduces the Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph (SOCKG), a semantic infrastructure designed to transform agricultural research data into a queryable knowledge representation. SOCKG features a robust ontological model of agricultural experimental data, enabling precise mapping of dat…

"Hollywood’s Environmental Tools Make Filmmaking Green and Affordable"
#US #USA #America #Hollywood

Hollywood's Environmental Tools Make Filmmaking Green and Affordable | Happy Eco News
Hollywood's environmental tools are revolutionizing film production through digital platforms that replace wasteful traditional methods. Cloud-based editing, digital script management, and integrated collaboration software reduce carbon emissions while cutting costs. These innovations make filmmaking more accessible globally while demonstrating how technology can improve both creative processes and environmental sustainability.

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…

Perspectives, Needs and Challenges for Sustainable Software Engineering Teams: A FinServ Case Study
Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) is slowly becoming an industry need for reasons including reputation enhancement, improved profits and more efficient practices. However, SSE has many definitions, and this is a challenge for organisations trying to build a common and broadly agreed understanding of the term. Although much research effort has gone into identifying general SSE practices, there is a gap in understanding the sustainability needs of specific organisational contexts, such as fi…

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

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…

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…

Towards an Architectural Perspective for Sustainability: Bundle the Needs from Industry
Markus Funke, Patricia Lago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20774 https://

Towards an Architectural Perspective for Sustainability: Bundle the Needs from Industry
Sustainability is increasingly recognized as an emerging quality property in software-intensive systems, yet architects lack structured guidance to address it effectively throughout the software design phase. Architectural perspectives-an architectural knowledge artifact composed of concerns, activities, tactics, pitfalls, and checklists-offer a promising approach to tackle such emerging quality properties across architectural views and are also independent of architecture frameworks and indust…

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…

Funding AI for Good: A Call for Meaningful Engagement
Artificial Intelligence for Social Good (AI4SG) is a growing area exploring AI's potential to address social issues like public health. Yet prior work has shown limited evidence of its tangible benefits for intended communities, and projects frequently face inadequate community engagement and sustainability challenges. Funding agendas play a crucial role in framing AI4SG initiatives and shaping their approaches. Through a qualitative analysis of 35 funding documents -- representing about $410 m…

"Why the future of sustainable furniture is pre-loved"
#Furniture #Sustainability
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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

Sustaining Research Software: A Fitness Function Approach
The long-term sustainability of research software is a critical challenge, as it usually suffers from poor maintainability, lack of adaptability, and eventual obsolescence. This paper proposes a novel approach to addressing this issue by leveraging the concept of fitness functions from evolutionary architecture. Fitness functions are automated, continuously evaluated metrics designed to ensure that software systems meet desired non-functional, architectural qualities over time. We define a set …

Towards Sustainability Model Cards
Gwendal Jouneaux, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19559 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19559

Towards Sustainability Model Cards
The growth of machine learning (ML) models and associated datasets triggers a consequent dramatic increase in energy costs for the use and training of these models. In the current context of environmental awareness and global sustainability concerns involving ICT, Green AI is becoming an important research topic. Initiatives like the AI Energy Score Ratings are a good example. Nevertheless, these benchmarking attempts are still to be integrated with existing work on Quality Models and Service-L…

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…

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…

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…

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-…

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…

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…

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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/

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

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