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Anastassia defends her PhD: Urban Data Science for Sustainable Mobility
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/04/01/anastassia-defends-her-phd-urban-data-science-for-sustainable-mobility/
Congrats to @…

I'm looking forward to discussing 'What can heritage do for society in the future?' at the '20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL' celebration on June 12
Some tickets still available https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025

Celebrating 20 years of Sustainable Heritage at UCL
Join us for this celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Sustainable Heritage MSc programme at UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage.

Sustainable Carbon-Aware and Water-Efficient LLM Scheduling in Geo-Distributed Cloud Datacenters
Hayden Moore, Sirui Qi, Ninad Hogade, Dejan Milojicic, Cullen Bash, Sudeep Pasricha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23554

Sustainable Carbon-Aware and Water-Efficient LLM Scheduling in Geo-Distributed Cloud Datacenters
In recent years, Large Language Models (LLM) such as ChatGPT, CoPilot, and Gemini have been widely adopted in different areas. As the use of LLMs continues to grow, many efforts have focused on reducing the massive training overheads of these models. But it is the environmental impact of handling user requests to LLMs that is increasingly becoming a concern. Recent studies estimate that the costs of operating LLMs in their inference phase can exceed training costs by 25x per year. As LLMs are q…

Ethiopians Brew Success as Coffee and Cash Pile Up Thanks to Transformational Sustainable Forestry Program https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/ethiopians-brew-success-as-coffee-and-cash-pile-up-thanks-to-sustainable-…

Ethiopians Brew Success as Coffee and Cash Pile Up Thanks to Transformational Sustainable Forestry Program
Coffee is a major lifeblood of Ethiopia's economy, (a quarter of the whole) accounting for around half of the livelihood of 15 million people

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Towards Resilient and Sustainable Global Industrial Systems: An Evolutionary-Based Approach
This paper presents a new complex optimization problem in the field of automatic design of advanced industrial systems and proposes a hybrid optimization approach to solve the problem. The problem is multi-objective as it aims at finding solutions that minimize CO2 emissions, transportation time, and costs. The optimization approach combines an evolutionary algorithm and classical mathematical programming to design resilient and sustainable global manufacturing networks. Further, it makes use o…

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Optimizing Perishable and Non-Perishable Product Assignment to Packaging Lines in a Sustainable Manufacturing System: An AUGMECON2VIKOR Algorithm
Identifying appropriate manufacturing systems for products can be considered a pivotal manufacturing task contributing to the optimization of operational and planning activities. It has gained importance in the food industry due to the distinct constraints and considerations posed by perishable and non-perishable items in this problem. Hence, this study proposes a new mathematical model according to knowledge discovery as well as an assignment model to optimize manufacturing systems for perisha…

A Global Commuting Origin-Destination Flow Dataset for Urban Sustainable Development
Can Rong, Jingtao Ding, Meng Li, Yong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17111

A Global Commuting Origin-Destination Flow Dataset for Urban Sustainable Development
Commuting Origin-Destination (OD) flows capture movements of people from residences to workplaces, representing the predominant form of intra-city mobility and serving as a critical reference for understanding urban dynamics and supporting sustainable policies. However, acquiring such data requires costly, time-consuming censuses. In this study, we introduce a commuting OD flow dataset for cities around the world, spanning 6 continents, 179 countries, and 1,625 cities, providing unprecedented c…

I hope Fosstodon continues.
See 2 recent posts on the matter
https://fosstodon.org/@kev/114415390874451358
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Thoughts on Fosstodon
I'm moving to hachyderm.io. Here's the background... When I left Twitter for Mastodon in late 2022, I chose fosstodon.org as my home. I appreciated the open source focus and it seemed like a well-run instance that would be around for a while. I also signed up as a monthly patron, to support the admin team and help keep the instance sustainable. In recent days, there has been a minor furor across the fediverse related to one of the moderators at…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11688 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csNE_…

Towards Resilient and Sustainable Global Industrial Systems: An Evolutionary-Based Approach
This paper presents a new complex optimization problem in the field of automatic design of advanced industrial systems and proposes a hybrid optimization approach to solve the problem. The problem is multi-objective as it aims at finding solutions that minimize CO2 emissions, transportation time, and costs. The optimization approach combines an evolutionary algorithm and classical mathematical programming to design resilient and sustainable global manufacturing networks. Further, it makes use o…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21844 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Optimizing Perishable and Non-Perishable Product Assignment to Packaging Lines in a Sustainable Manufacturing System: An AUGMECON2VIKOR Algorithm
Identifying appropriate manufacturing systems for products can be considered a pivotal manufacturing task contributing to the optimization of operational and planning activities. It has gained importance in the food industry due to the distinct constraints and considerations posed by perishable and non-perishable items in this problem. Hence, this study proposes a new mathematical model according to knowledge discovery as well as an assignment model to optimize manufacturing systems for perisha…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17189 has been replaced.
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Bayesian optimisation of poloidal field coil positions in tokamaks
The tokamak is a world-leading concept for producing sustainable energy via magnetically-confined nuclear fusion. Identifying where to position the magnets within a tokamak, specifically the poloidal field (PF) coils, is a design problem which requires balancing a number of competing economic, physical, and engineering objectives and constraints. In this paper, we show that multi-objective Bayesian optimisation (BO), an iterative optimisation technique utilising probabilistic machine learning m…

Reminder that our focus issue "Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities" in Journal of Physics: Complexity is open for only 2 more months!
👉 https://iopscience.iop.org/collections/jpcomplex-231012-387

How does the carbon footprint of protein-rich foods compare?
#FederatedMemory
https://ourworldindata.org/less-meat-or-sustainable-meat

The way I see self-nurturing is that it's deeper, it's more compassionate to ourselves, it's more sustainable and also it's more personalised. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

Upcoming GÉANT infoshare 🚀
Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Explore the multi-national policy context which supports earth observation, the complimentary RREN research engagement approaches employed, and discover the Group on Earth Observations (GEO).
👥 Hosted by Daniela Brauner, Chris Atherton and Hendrik Ike (GÉANT), with presentations from Paola De Salvo (GEO Secretariat), Yousef Torman (ASREN), and Mark Urban (RedCLARA).
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Infoshare Series on Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 1
Earth observation has a direct impact on societal ambitions to reduce the effects of climate change, monitor the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals, and for its use in disaster and emergency response.  As a wide-ranging topic area, Earth observation is reliant upon ever increasing volumes of data for achieving the latest scientific discoveries.  It is because of the societal impact, and large-scale data transit to universities and national institutions which makes this an...

Andrew Sheer is currently spinning a conspiracy theory that “ties” Carney while in the UK to lobbying for “rules" to "force" aviation companies to use "non-conventional" fuel and then “he invests in that company and makes millions”.
And that, folks, is how the Conservatives are going to tie "New World Order" conspiracies to any kind of climate action, even very weak action like Sustainable Airline Fuel.
God I hate this guy's gross smile.
#canPoli #CdnPoli #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

Very happy to have the printed version of the German edition of Dream Askew Dream Apart in my hands. Thank you, @… , for giving the German language community this important game. This game is special to me as I somehow had it again and again in my mind while developing my own future I want to live in, the sustainable community housing project @…
#ttrpg #indierpg #pnpde #bob #DADA #averyAlder