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An Analytical Framework for the Linear Best-Worst Method and its Application to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals--Oriented Agri-Food Supply Chains
Harshit M. Ratandhara, Mohit Kumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17666

An Analytical Framework for the Linear Best-Worst Method and its Application to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals--Oriented Agri-Food Supply Chains
The Best-Worst Method (BWM) has emerged as a prominent multi-criteria decision-making method for determining the weights of the decision criteria. Among various BWM models, this research focuses on the linear model of the BWM. This model calculates weights by solving an optimization problem, necessitating optimization software. In this article, we present a novel framework that solves this optimization model mathematically, yielding an analytical expression for the resultant weights, thus elimi…

Denmark Introduces ‘Plant-Based Diplomacy Initiative’ #plantbased

Denmark Introduces 'Plant-Based Diplomacy Initiative'
The Danish government is set to champion sustainable and plant-based food systems during its six-month European Union council presidency

Sgambaro Pastasole,
high protein low carb
THE FIRST ITALIAN PASTA WITH SUNFLOWER SEED FLOUR AND DURUM WHEAT SEMOLINA:
DESIGNED FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO LIVE THEIR WELLBEING
IN A NATURAL, TASTY AND SUSTAINABLE WAY
#Sgambaro

If you're in or around Galway tomorrow, check this out!
From the game director of award-winning Monument Valley 3.
Join Game Director and Designer Jennifer Estaris in an interactive session developed as part of the Citizens Assemble Game Jam.
https://w…

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.

"The Economics of Open: Can Open Licensing Be a Sustainable Strategy for Cultural Heritage Institutions?" https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2025/07/18/the-economics-of-open-can-open-licensing-be-a…

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

"Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/15/climate-groups-call-uk-wealth-tax-make-super-rich-fund-sustainable-economy

Evaluating the Impact of Lean and Green Practices on Operational Performance: A Real Data-Driven Simulation Case Study
Farah Altarazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17354

Evaluating the Impact of Lean and Green Practices on Operational Performance: A Real Data-Driven Simulation Case Study
Global market-driven forces and customer needs are continuously changing. In the past, profitability and efficiency were the primary objectives of most companies. However, in recent decades, sustainable performance has emerged as a new competitive advantage. Companies have been compelled to adopt a concept that combines these evolving global interests with traditional goals resulting in the innovation of the lean and green approach. In this study, a research methodology that includes system a…

UN’s Top Court Rules That ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is a Human Right #environment

UN’s Top Court Rules That ‘Clean, Healthy’ Environment Is a Human Right
In a landmark finding, the UN’s top court stated that a “clean, healthy and sustainable environment” is a human right.

White paper: Towards Human-centric and Sustainable 6G Services -- the fortiss Research Perspective
Rute C. Sofia, Hao Shen, Yuanting Liu, Severin Kacianka, Holger Pfeifer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14209

White paper: Towards Human-centric and Sustainable 6G Services -- the fortiss Research Perspective
As a leading research institute in software-intensive systems, fortiss is actively shaping the vision of Sixth Generation Mobile Communication (6G). Our mission is to ensure that 6G technologies go beyond technical advancements and are aligned with societal needs. fortiss plays a key role in 6G initiatives worldwide, including contributions to standardization bodies and collaborative Research and Development programs. We focus on software-defined, AI-enabled, and sustainable communication servi…

US universities leading the way in sustainable energy with new solar project. Another step forward towards a clean energy future. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

US universities announce massive project that could transform how we power our schools: 'Another step forward'
Connecticut's CSCU just launched a huge solar project expected to save millions.

"Climate groups call for UK wealth tax to make super-rich fund sustainable economy"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions
Arpitha Srivathsa Malavalli, Karthik Sama, Janvi Chhabra, Pooja Bassin, Srinath Srinivasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16836

Engineering Resilience: An Energy-Based Approach to Sustainable Behavioural Interventions
Addressing complex societal challenges, such as improving public health, fostering honesty in workplaces, or encouraging eco-friendly behaviour requires effective nudges to influence human behaviour at scale. Intervention science seeks to design such nudges within complex societal systems. While interventions primarily aim to shift the system toward a desired state, less attention is given to the sustainability of that state, which we define in terms of resilience: the system's ability to retai…

Helium recovery system at IB3A
D. Porwisiak (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology), M. J. White (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), B. J. Hansen (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17538

Helium recovery system at IB3A
The growing demand for sustainable cryogenic operations at Fermilab has underscored the need to improve helium management, particularly at the Industrial Building 3A (IB3A) test facility. IB3A characterizes and tests superconductors, cables, and coils for projects such as the HL-LHC AUP and Mu2e, yet currently relies on 500 L Dewars whose boil-off is vented to atmosphere, wasting a critical, non-renewable resource and increasing the cost of testing. A project is therefore under way to link IB3A…

FINCH EYE: The Optical and Optomechanical Design of a GRISM-based SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging Payload for a 3U CubeSat
Iliya Shofman, Mario Ghio Neto, Theaswanth Ganesh, Kenya He, Aidan Armstrong, Ksenya Narkevich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17480

FINCH EYE: The Optical and Optomechanical Design of a GRISM-based SWIR Hyperspectral Imaging Payload for a 3U CubeSat
Crop residue is an important metric used for agricultural land-use monitoring and climate science research. Estimating crop residue coverage is essential to sustainable agricultural practices. The University of Toronto Aerospace Team is developing FINCH EYE, the optical payload for the upcoming FINCH 3U CubeSat, to measure crop residue cover. We conceived of a novel ultra-compact push-broom architecture with a volume phase-holographic grism dispersive element to keep the design compact and simp…

Unlocking Surfactant Synergies for Fluorine Replacements: A Microfluidic Exploration of Emulsion Stability and Coalescence Dynamics
Rana Bachnak, Cari Dutcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17894

Unlocking Surfactant Synergies for Fluorine Replacements: A Microfluidic Exploration of Emulsion Stability and Coalescence Dynamics
Fluorinated surfactants are widely utilized in various applications, including firefighting foams, coatings, and lubricants. Their wide utility is due to their unique properties, such as their ability to effectively lower surface/interfacial tension. However, the excessive use of fluorinated surfactants has raised environmental and health concerns due to their persistence in the environment and potential toxicity. The need for effective and sustainable surfactant replacements has therefore beco…

Predict, Reposition, and Allocate: A Greedy and Flow-Based Architecture for Sustainable Urban Food Delivery
Aqsa Ashraf Makhdomi, Iqra Altaf Gillani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15282

Predict, Reposition, and Allocate: A Greedy and Flow-Based Architecture for Sustainable Urban Food Delivery
The rapid proliferation of food delivery platforms has reshaped urban mobility but has also contributed significantly to environmental degradation through increased greenhouse gas emissions. Existing optimization mechanisms produce sub-optimal outcomes as they do not consider environmental sustainability their optimization objective. This study proposes a novel eco-friendly food delivery optimization framework that integrates demand prediction, delivery person routing, and order allocation to m…

With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/29/food-drink/relationfish-sustainable-seafood-fine-dining/
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With farmed fish, RelationFish swims against the tide in fine dining
Want to be an advocate of Japan’s marine health? Look out for sustainably farmed fish the next time you dine at a restaurant.

Speaker Adams did quite poorly in the primary (coming in 4th at 4.2%), and Mayor Adams will likely do quite poorly in the general. And really, it's no surprise. They're both just.. ineffective (with the Mayor being downright evil).
#NYC

Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/seaweed-farming-as-an-eco-friendly-alternative-for-tanzanian-fishing-communities/

Seaweed farming as an eco-friendly alternative for Tanzanian fishing communities
Climate change, overfishing and habitat loss have caused a sharp decline in fish stocks around Pemba Island, off the coast of Tanzania. To find a new income from the sea, women from Pemba are turning to sustainable seaweed farming, Mongabay’s video team reported in May. Seaweed farming was introduced to the island in 1989. It […]

#NowPlaying “Desi Oon”, an Indian stop animation short using Deccani wool to spread awareness of its neglect in the wake of urbanization and a tribute to shepherd Balumama who dedicated his life to sustainable pastoralism. https://www.

Go Green Without the Mafia! Dissolution of Infiltrated City Councils and Environmental Policy
Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Marco Quatrosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18410 https://

Go Green Without the Mafia! Dissolution of Infiltrated City Councils and Environmental Policy
In this article, we study the effects of organized crime infiltration in city councils on environmental policies implemented in Italy at the municipal level. To this purpose, we exploit the exogenous shock of the removal of a city council infiltrated by the mafia and its substitution with an external Commission, allowed in Italy by the law 164/1991. Our results suggest that after dissolution, environmental policies improve in several dimensions: the capital expenditure for sustainable developme…

NFDI4DS is hosting its second Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data (AIKG-SD 2025) 🥳
This year's theme: “Research Towards Sustainable Societies”
🗣 Keynotes & Interactive Tutorials
☕ Networking
🏆 Poster Session & Best Poster Award
September 23/24, 2025
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Application deadline: June 27, 2025!

AIKG-SD 2025
AIKG-SD 2025: Research Towards Sustainable Societies ! Now accepting submissions ! NFDI4DataScience and the AIX Lab at Leuphana University Lüneburg is hosting its second summer school on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data. Join us for two days of interesting discussions

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Ezzat Elokda, Andrea Censi, Emilio Frazzoli, Florian D\"orfler, Saverio Bolognani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17115

A Vision for Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Socio-Technical Control using Karma Economies
Control systems will play a pivotal role in addressing societal-scale challenges as they drive the development of sustainable future smart cities. At the heart of these challenges is the trustworthy, fair, and efficient allocation of scarce public resources, including renewable energy, transportation, data, computation, etc.. Historical evidence suggests that monetary control -- the prototypical mechanism for managing resource scarcity -- is not always well-accepted in socio-technical resource …

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.

ARRC: Explainable, Workflow-Integrated Recommender for Sustainable Resource Optimization Across the Edge-Cloud Continuum
Brian-Frederik Jahnke, Ren\'e Brinkhege, Jan Peter Meyer, Daniel Tebernum, Falk Howar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12032

ARRC: Explainable, Workflow-Integrated Recommender for Sustainable Resource Optimization Across the Edge-Cloud Continuum
Achieving sustainable, explainable, and maintainable automation for resource optimization is a core challenge across the edge-cloud continuum. Persistent overprovisioning and operational complexity often stem from heterogeneous platforms and layered abstractions, while systems lacking explainability and maintainability become fragile, impede safe recovery, and accumulate technical debt. Existing solutions are frequently reactive, limited to single abstraction layers, or require intrusive platfo…

Digital twin and extended reality for teleoperation of the electric vehicle battery disassembly
Tero Kaarlela, Sami Salo, Jose Outeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14929

Digital twin and extended reality for teleoperation of the electric vehicle battery disassembly
Disassembling and sorting Electric Vehicle Batteries (EVBs) supports a sustainable transition to electric vehicles by enabling a closed-loop supply chain. Currently, the manual disassembly process exposes workers to hazards, including electrocution and toxic chemicals. We propose a teleoperated system for the safe disassembly and sorting of EVBs. A human-in-the-loop can create and save disassembly sequences for unknown EVB types, enabling future automation. An RGB camera aligns the physical and…

Quantum battery breakthrough: Australian researchers unveil technology with 1,000x longer life, promising efficient energy storage and potential for sustainable solutions. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Australian quantum battery with 1,000 times better life unveiled
Australian researchers have cracked the approach needed to improve lifespan of quantum batteries, paving way for more developments.

MIT-Forschende haben ein Verfahren entwickelt, das aus #Seewasser, recycelten #Aludosen und etwas #Koffein umweltfreundlichen

Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable
MIT engineers find making hydrogen from soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable. Their method’s overall carbon emissions are on par with those of other green hydrogen technologies.

Car Free Days return to Metro Vancouver with expanded lineup
Car Free Days are back and bigger than ever with nine events across the region. From Maple Ridge to North Vancouver, streets will transform into pedestrian-only spaces, filled with art, music, food trucks, and local vendors.
Car Free Days invite residents to experience their vibrant neighbourhoods without cars — encouraging walking, cycling, and transit as greener, more sustainable ways to get around.
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Bookmarked: Designing sustainable Digital Editions – Pšdraic Moran #Digital_Editions

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
Christina Bremer, Harshit Gujral, Michelle Lin, Lily Hinkers, Christoph Becker, Vlad C. Coroam\u{a}
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14653

How Viable are Energy Savings in Smart Homes? A Call to Embrace Rebound Effects in Sustainable HCI
As part of global climate action, digital technologies are seen as a key enabler of energy efficiency savings. A popular application domain for this work is smart homes. There is a risk, however, that these efficiency gains result in rebound effects, which reduce or even overcompensate the savings. Rebound effects are well-established in economics, but it is less clear whether they also inform smart energy research in other disciplines. In this paper, we ask: to what extent have rebound effects…

The stage is set for the #Ward6 Cromarty Firth & #Ward10 Eilean a' Cheò [Skye] #byelections. The electronic count in Kyleachin Community Hall starts at 11am and you can follow it live on the Council&…

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

Big Tech acquihiring AI startups, like Meta's Scale AI deal, gives VCs only modest returns compared to traditional exits and may entrench Big Tech's dominance (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

Meta, Google AI Talent Grab May Spur a Silicon Valley Rethink
Meta and Google’s AI talent grab may lead to more sustainable tech companies.

Energy consumption optimization and self-powered environmental monitoring design for low-carbon smart buildings
Yuhan Dai, Mingtong Chen, Zhengbao Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15169

Energy consumption optimization and self-powered environmental monitoring design for low-carbon smart buildings
Despite the growing emphasis on intelligent buildings as a cornerstone of sustainable urban development, significant energy inefficiencies persist due to suboptimal design, material choices, and user behavior. The applicability of integrated Building Information Modeling (BIM) and solarpowered environmental monitoring systems for energy optimization in low-carbon smart buildings remains underexplored. Can BIM-driven design improvements, combined with photovoltaic systems, achieve substantial en…

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

🌱 Living materials now easier to build with a larger palette of ingredients
#materials

Living materials now easier to build with a larger palette of ingredients
Sustainable materials—powered by sunlight and living microbes—that remove pollutants from water, release oxygen into a wound or heal themselves after damage could become simpler to create thanks to new research by a team of biologists and engineers at the University of California San Diego.

Astrotourism for Development: An Overview of Resources from the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
Joyful E. Mdhluli, IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15827

Astrotourism for Development: An Overview of Resources from the IAU Office of Astronomy for Development
Astrotourism has emerged as a powerful cross sectoral tool to promote science education, sustainable economic development, and cultural exchange. Recognising its potential, the International Astronomical Union's Office of Astronomy for Development (IAU OAD) has developed a suite of openly accessible resources to support individuals and institutions interested in implementing astrotourism initiatives globally. These resources also encourage individuals and existing businesses to broaden their of…

A new guide focusing on renewables-based electrification of road transport by #IRENA, embedded into wider sustainable transport planning (e.g. prioritize public transport). Efficiency of electrification renewables smart charging & V2G key to enable system-wide benefits

AviationLLM: An LLM-based Knowledge System for Aviation Training
Jia'ang Wan, Feng Shen, Fujuan Li, Yanjin Sun, Yan Li, Shiwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14336

AviationLLM: An LLM-based Knowledge System for Aviation Training
Aviation training is a core link in ensuring flight safety, improving industry efficiency and promoting sustainable development. It not only involves flight simulation but also requires the learning of a great deal of professional aviation theory knowledge. In the existing training system, the knowledge is mainly imparted by the the instructors. However, the number of instructors is limited and the professional answers obtained from the Internet are not accurate enough, resulting in low trainin…

"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." https://www.artificialvision…

#Energie #Energiewende Am 12.7. macht die @… mal wieder Onlinevortrag, dieses mal aber für ein internationales Publikum. Darum einmal vormittags und ein…

Nano-silica based Aqueous Colloidal Gels as Eco-friendly Thixotropic Lubricant
Arun Kumar, Vivek Kumar, Yogesh M. Joshi, Manjesh K. Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16249

Nano-silica based Aqueous Colloidal Gels as Eco-friendly Thixotropic Lubricant
The environmental risks posed by traditional oil and grease-based lubricants can be significantly mitigated by adopting water-based alternatives engineered with superior rheological performance. In this work, we present a fundamentally new and environmentally sustainable aqueous thixotropic colloidal gel of silica nanoparticles formed in the presence of NaCl. We conducted a systematic and detailed investigation of their rheological and tribological characteristics. The tribological performance …

🌋 Playing with fire: Harnessing lava to build sustainable cities
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2025/05/30/playing-with-fire-harnessing-lava-to-build-sustainable-cities/

Playing With Fire: Harnessing Lava To Build Sustainable Cities
A futuristic new project imagines the possibility of molding lava into building material, thereby reducing the carbon emissions associated with construction.

FloGAN: Scenario-Based Urban Mobility Flow Generation via Conditional GANs and Dynamic Region Decoupling
Seanglidet Yean, Jiazu Zhou, Bu-Sung Lee, Markus Schl\"apfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12053

FloGAN: Scenario-Based Urban Mobility Flow Generation via Conditional GANs and Dynamic Region Decoupling
The mobility patterns of people in cities evolve alongside changes in land use and population. This makes it crucial for urban planners to simulate and analyze human mobility patterns for purposes such as transportation optimization and sustainable urban development. Existing generative models borrowed from machine learning rely heavily on historical trajectories and often overlook evolving factors like changes in population density and land use. Mechanistic approaches incorporate population de…

🚀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗱𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 0.2.0 is here. As before, you are getting nicely formatted Open Mobility Big Data released by the Spanish Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (MITMS) in a reproducible way. #rstats #opendata

Get Spanish Origin-Destination Data
Gain seamless access to origin-destination (OD) data from the Spanish Ministry of Transport, hosted at . This package simplifies the management of these large datasets by providing tools to download zone boundaries, handle associated origin-destination data, and process it efficiently with the duckdb database interface. Local caching minimizes repeated downloads, streamlining wo…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
Lu\'is Cruz, Jo\~ao Paulo Fernandes, Maja H. Kirkeby, Silverio Mart\'inez-Fern\'andez, June Sallou, Hina Anwar, Enrique Barba Roque, Justus Bogner, Joel Casta\~no, Fernando Castor, Aadil Chasmawala, Sim\~ao Cunha, Daniel Feitosa, Alexandra Gonz\'alez, Andreas Jedlitschka, Patricia Lago, Ana Oprescu, Pooja Rani, Jo\~ao Saraiva, Federica Sarro, Raghavendra…

Greening AI-enabled Systems with Software Engineering: A Research Agenda for Environmentally Sustainable AI Practices
The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled systems is increasing rapidly, and software engineering plays a critical role in developing sustainable solutions. The "Greening AI with Software Engineering" CECAM-Lorentz workshop (no. 1358, 2025) funded by the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire and the Lorentz Center, provided an interdisciplinary forum for 29 participants, from practitioners to academics, to share knowledge, ideas, practices, and current resul…

A Review of Generative AI in Aquaculture: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions for Smart and Sustainable Farming
Waseem Akram, Muhayy Ud Din, Lyes Saad Soud, Irfan Hussain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11974

A Review of Generative AI in Aquaculture: Foundations, Applications, and Future Directions for Smart and Sustainable Farming
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) has rapidly emerged as a transformative force in aquaculture, enabling intelligent synthesis of multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and simulation outputs for smarter, more adaptive decision-making. As the aquaculture industry shifts toward data-driven, automation and digital integration operations under the Aquaculture 4.0 paradigm, GAI models offer novel opportunities across environmental monitoring, robotics, disease diagnostics, infrastru…

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

'The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study'
Report just released: https://braiduk.org/the-responsible-ai-ecosystem-seven-lessons-from-the-braid-landscape-study

The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

Towards High-Efficiency Solar Cells: Insights into AsNCa 3 Antiperovskite as Active Layer
M. Irfan, B. D. Aparicio-Huacarpuma, C. M. de Oliveira Bastos, M. J. Piotrowski, C. R. C. R\^ego, D. Guedes-Sobrinho, R. Besse, A. M. Almeida Silva, Alexandre C. Dias, L. A. Ribeiro Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15403

Towards High-Efficiency Solar Cells: Insights into AsNCa 3 Antiperovskite as Active Layer
Advances in photovoltaic technology are a viable route to contribute to cleaner and more sustainable energy solutions, placing perovskite-based materials among the best candidates for solar energy conversion. However, some challenges must be addressed to enhance their performance and stability. Herein, we report an investigation of the AsNCa3 antiperovskite system for its potential in photovoltaic devices. We consider eight distinct crystalline phases, their structural parameters, dynamical sta…

UAV-Enabled Wireless-Powered Underground Communication Networks: A Novel Time Allocation Approach
Kaiqiang Lin, Yijie Mao, Onel Luis Alcaraz L\'opez, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14627

UAV-Enabled Wireless-Powered Underground Communication Networks: A Novel Time Allocation Approach
Wireless-powered underground communication networks (WPUCNs), which allow underground devices (UDs) to harvest energy from wireless signals for battery-free communication, offer a promising solution for sustainable underground monitoring. However, the severe wireless signal attenuation in challenging underground environments and the costly acquisition of channel state information (CSI) make large-scale WPUCNs economically infeasible in practice. To address this challenge, we introduce flexible …

The Zen of Gentoo. Don't try to tell me this is sustainable for normal people. Running for 1 hour already, Ryzen 7, 32Gb. Love Larry, but still.... An update, not even an install of llvm 😆

MC for Agriculture: A Framework for Nature-inspired Sustainable Pest Control
Fardad Vakilipoor, Nora Hirschmann, Julian Schladt, Stefan Schwab, Annette Reineke, Robert Schober, Kathrin Castiglione, Maximilian Schaefer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20637

MC for Agriculture: A Framework for Nature-inspired Sustainable Pest Control
In agriculture, molecular communication (MC) is envisioned as a framework to address critical challenges such as smart pest control. While conventional approaches mostly rely on synthetic plant protection products, posing high risks for the environment, harnessing plant signaling processes can lead to innovative approaches for nature-inspired sustainable pest control. In this paper, we investigate an approach for sustainable pest control and reveal how the MC paradigm can be employed for analys…

Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could revolutionize recycling and boost rates significantly. Find out how Norway's bottle-recycling lottery system is leading the way in promoting sustainable practices. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Treating empty bottles like lottery tickets could transform recycling
When offered a 1-in-10,000 chance of winning $1,000 instead of a guaranteed 10 cent refund, people recycled 47% more bottles...at no extra cost to local governments.

“As design ethicist Aral Balkan explains: ‘Dark patterns might boost short-term metrics, but they ultimately corrode trust and damage brand reputation. Ethical design creates sustainable relationships rather than one-time transactions.’”
https://ui-deploy.com/blog/e…

Ethical Dark Patterns: Identifying and Avoiding Manipulative Design
Learn to identify and avoid manipulative dark patterns in favor of ethical design that builds long-term user trust.

Sustainable operation of research infrastructure for novel computing
Yannik Stradmann, Joscha Ilmberger, Eric M\"uller, Johannes Schemmel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23901

Sustainable operation of research infrastructure for novel computing
Novel compute systems are an emerging research topic, aiming towards building next-generation compute platforms. For these systems to thrive, they need to be provided as research infrastructure to allow acceptance and usage by a large community. By the example of the neuromorphic BrainScaleS-2 system, we showcase the transformation from a laboratory setup to a sustainable, publicly available platform. It is embedded into a purpose-built institute, tightly coupling a conventional cluster with no…

Tech-project selling these days:
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Aim: "We will revolutionize the internet by building a centralized, standardized, interoperable, and sustainable platform for the 21st century"
First project step: Let's do some Hackathons!
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Thank you for nothing!

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

Right now there's an ACM design technology conference happening with hundreds of people flying in to a conference facility on a remote island to discuss the conference theme of how to make their work more sustainable. In-person participation only.

We're pleased to announce that Kleinanzeigen has joined Berlin Buzzwords 2025 as a Gold Partner.
Find out more about Kleinanzeigen: https://themen.kleinanzeigen.de/careers/

Your Career at Kleinanzeigen
Join our international team and bring the joy of sustainable trade to everyone.

Mixed platinum and zirconia powder as electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution and oxidation reaction
Simone Minelli, Manuel Iozzia, Claudio Piazzoni, Alberto Vertova, Cristina Lenardi, Alessandro Minguzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14819

Mixed platinum and zirconia powder as electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution and oxidation reaction
The development of efficient and cost-effective bifunctional electrocatalysts for hydrogen-related technologies is crucial for the transition to sustainable energy. In this work, we present Pt@ZrO2 as a high-performance ceramic-based electrocatalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and hydrogen oxidation reaction (HOR), demonstrating superior activity and stability in alkaline conditions. Compared to Pd@ZrO2, previously investigated in our earlier work, Pt@ZrO2 exhibits significantly l…

Astronomy as a strategic driver for sustainable development: #Astronomy for Development is to direct astronomy towards addressing urgent societal needs.

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Maria Voreakou, George Kousiouris, Mara Nikolaidou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10693

Towards Sustainable Computing: Exploring Energy Consumption Efficiency of Alternative Configurations and Workloads in an Open Source Messaging System
Energy consumption in current large scale computing infrastructures is becoming a critical issue, especially with the growing demand for centralized systems such as cloud environments. With the advancement of microservice architectures and the Internet of Things, messaging systems have become an integral and mainstream part of modern computing infrastructures, carrying out significant workload in a majority of applications. In this paper, we describe an experimental process to explore energy-ba…

1st International Conference Ruralities, Sustainable Developments & New Artistic Ecologies. October 29-30, 2025.
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Sustainable Water Treatment through Fractional-Order Chemostat Modeling with Sliding Memory and Periodic Boundary Conditions: A Mathematical Framework for Clean Water and Sanitation
Kareem T. Elgindy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04420

Sustainable Water Treatment through Fractional-Order Chemostat Modeling with Sliding Memory and Periodic Boundary Conditions: A Mathematical Framework for Clean Water and Sanitation
This study investigates the theoretical properties of a fractional-order chemostat system with sliding memory and periodic boundary conditions, used to model the cultivation of microorganisms for pollutant degradation. By incorporating Caputo fractional derivatives with a sliding memory window (CFDS), the model captures time-dependent behaviors and memory effects in biological systems more effectively than integer-order derivatives. We reduce the two-dimensional fractional differential equation…

Design of a Modular Mobile Inspection and Maintenance Robot for an Orbital Servicing Hub
Tianyuan Wang, Mark A Post, Mathieu Deremetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14059

Design of a Modular Mobile Inspection and Maintenance Robot for an Orbital Servicing Hub
The use of autonomous robots in space is an essential part of the "New Space" commercial ecosystem of assembly and re-use of space hardware components in Earth orbit and beyond. The STARFAB project aims to create a ground demonstration of an orbital automated warehouse as a hub for sustainable commercial operations and servicing. A critical part of this fully-autonomous robotic facility will be the capability to monitor, inspect, and assess the condition of both the components stored in the war…

Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations
Laura Finarelli, Falko Dressler, Marco Ajmone Marsan, Gianluca Rizzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15423

Assessing the Benefits of Ground Vehicles as Moving Urban Base Stations
In the evolution towards 6G user-centric networking, the moving network (MN) paradigm can play an important role. In a MN, some small cell base stations (BS) are installed on top of vehicles, and enable a more dynamic, flexible and sustainable, network operation. By "following" the users movements and adapting dynamically to their requests, the MN paradigm enables a more efficient utilization of network resources, mitigating the need for dense small cell BS deployments at the cost of an increas…

A 3D Mobile Crowdsensing Framework for Sustainable Urban Digital Twins
Taku Yamazaki (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Kaito Watanabe (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Tatsuya Kase (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Kenta Hasegawa (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Koki Saida (Shibaura Institute of Technology), Takumi Miyoshi (Shibaura Institute of Technology)

A 3D Mobile Crowdsensing Framework for Sustainable Urban Digital Twins
In this article, we propose a 3D mobile crowdsensing (3D-MCS) framework aimed at sustainable urban digital twins (UDTs). The framework comprises four key mechanisms: (1) the 3D-MCS mechanism, consisting of active and passive models; (2) the Geohash-based spatial information management mechanism; (3) the dynamic point cloud integration mechanism for UDTs; and (4) the web-based real-time visualizer for 3D-MCS and UDTs. The active sensing model features a gamified 3D-MCS approach, where participan…

Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Chelsea Thompto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05320 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05320

Teaching Sustainable Creative Technologies
Artists and especially new media artists contribute to public perceptions and adoption of new technologies through their own use of emerging media technologies such as augmented and virtual reality, generative image systems, and high-resolution displays in the production of their work. In this way, art and media production can be understood as part of the larger issue of unsustainable computational consumption. As such, it is critical for artists to develop, share, and promote new and more sust…

Collaborative Charging Scheduling via Balanced Bounding Box Methods
Fangting Zhou, Bal\'azs Kulcs\'ar, Jiaming Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14461 …

Collaborative Charging Scheduling via Balanced Bounding Box Methods
Electric mobility faces several challenges, most notably the high cost of infrastructure development and the underutilization of charging stations. The concept of shared charging offers a promising solution. The paper explores sustainable urban logistics through horizontal collaboration between two fleet operators and addresses a scheduling problem for the shared use of charging stations. To tackle this, the study formulates a collaborative scheduling problem as a bi-objective nonlinear integer…

Homeowner sees negative energy bill after leasing solar panels - a glimpse into the future of sustainable energy. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Homeowner reveals massive negative energy bill after leasing solar panels: '[The] panels are producing way more than ... estimated'
One homeowner proved that you can get a negative energy bill with solar panels.

PGLib-CO2: A Power Grid Library for Computing and Optimizing Carbon Emissions
Young-ho Cho, Min-Seung Ko, Hao Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14662 https://…

PGLib-CO2: A Power Grid Library for Computing and Optimizing Carbon Emissions
A sustainable electricity infrastructure requires the explicit integration of carbon emissions into power system modeling and optimization paradigms. However, existing open-source datasets for power system R&D lack generator-level carbon emission profiling, limiting the ability to benchmark and compare various carbon-aware grid operational strategies. To address this gap, this work introduces PGLib-CO2, an open-source extension to the widely adopted PGLib-OPF test case library. PGLib-CO2 enrich…

Feasibility of Energy Neutral Wildlife Tracking using Multi-Source Energy Harvesting
Samer Nasser, Henrique Duarte Moura, Dragan Subotic, Ritesh Kumar Singh, Maarten Weyn, Jeroen Famaey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14234

Feasibility of Energy Neutral Wildlife Tracking using Multi-Source Energy Harvesting
Long-term wildlife tracking is crucial for biodiversity monitoring, but energy limitations pose challenges, especially for animal tags, where replacing batteries is impractical and stressful for the animal due to the need to locate, possibly sedate, and handle it. Energy harvesting offers a sustainable alternative, yet most existing systems rely on a single energy source and infrastructure-limited communication technologies. This paper presents an energy-neutral system that combines solar and k…

A nice article was just published in our Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities:
Active travel modelling: a methodological approach to networks for walking and cycling commuting analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.10…

Hydrogen-based direct reduction of multicomponent oxides: Insights from powder and pre-sintered precursors toward sustainable alloy design
Shiv Shankar, Barak Ratzker, Yan Ma, Dierk Raabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01242

Hydrogen-based direct reduction of multicomponent oxides: Insights from powder and pre-sintered precursors toward sustainable alloy design
The co-reduction of metal oxide mixtures using hydrogen as a reductant in conjunction with compaction and sintering of the evolving metallic blends offers a promising alternative toward sustainable alloy production through a single, integrated, and synergistic process. Herein, we provide fundamental insights into hydrogen-based direct reduction (HyDR) of distinct oxide precursors that differ by phase composition and morphology. Specifically, we investigate the co-reduction of multicomponent met…

Advanced Printed Sensors for Environmental Applications: A Path Towards Sustainable Monitoring Solutions
Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Doha Touhafi, Jurgen Vandendriessche, Danial Karimi, Sohail Fatimi, Gianluca Cornetta, Abdellah Touhafi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02067

Advanced Printed Sensors for Environmental Applications: A Path Towards Sustainable Monitoring Solutions
Printed sensors represent a transformative advancement in sensor technology, utilizing innovative printing techniques to create flexible, cost-effective, and highly customizable sensing devices. Their versatility allows integration into numerous applications across diverse fields such as monitoring a wide range of environmental factors e.g. air and water quality, soil conditions, and atmospheric changes among others. These sensors demonstrate high sensitivity and accuracy in detecting pollutant…

Towards the Autonomous Optimization of Urban Logistics: Training Generative AI with Scientific Tools via Agentic Digital Twins and Model Context Protocol
Haowen Xu, Yulin Sun, Jose Tupayachi, Olufemi Omitaomu, Sisi Zlatanov, Xueping Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13068

Towards the Autonomous Optimization of Urban Logistics: Training Generative AI with Scientific Tools via Agentic Digital Twins and Model Context Protocol
Optimizing urban freight logistics is critical for developing sustainable, low-carbon cities. Traditional methods often rely on manual coordination of simulation tools, optimization solvers, and expert-driven workflows, limiting their efficiency and scalability. This paper presents an agentic system architecture that leverages the model context protocol (MCP) to orchestrate multi-agent collaboration among scientific tools for autonomous, simulation-informed optimization in urban logistics. The …

"What Can We Learn From Open Access Journals in the Arab States?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/open-access-journals-arab-states
"In the 22 Arab states,

A Vertical Approach to Designing and Managing Sustainable Heterogeneous Edge Data Centers
Aikaterini Maria Panteleaki, Varatheepan Paramanayakam, Vasileios Pentsos, Andreas Karatzas, Spyros Tragoudas, Iraklis Anagnostopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01712

A Vertical Approach to Designing and Managing Sustainable Heterogeneous Edge Data Centers
The increasing demand for Artificial Intelligence (AI) computing poses significant environmental challenges, with both operational and embodied carbon emissions becoming major contributors. This paper presents a carbon-aware holistic methodology for designing and managing sustainable Edge Data Centers (EDCs), based on three design principles that challenge the state-of-the-art optimization paradigms. Our approach employs vertical integration across the architecture, system, and runtime layers, …

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Ciro Beneduce, Tania Gull\'on Mu\~noz-Repiso, Bruno Lepri, Massimiliano Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13385

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Mobility patterns play a critical role in a wide range of societal challenges, from epidemic modeling and emergency response to transportation planning and regional development. Yet, access to high-quality, timely, and openly available mobility data remains limited. In response, the Spanish Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility has released daily mobility datasets based on anonymized mobile phone data, covering districts, municipalities, and greater urban areas from February 2020 …

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11563 h…

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
This paper presents a theoretical discussion for environmentally-conscious job deployment and migration in cloud environments, aiming to minimize the environmental impact of resource provisioning while incorporating sustainability requirements. As the demand for sustainable cloud services grows, it is crucial for cloud customers to select data center operators based on sustainability metrics and to accurately report the ecological footprint of their services. To this end, we analyze sustainabil…

Leveraging Sidewalk Robots for Walkability-Related Analyses
Xing Tong, Michele D. Simoni, Kaj Munhoz Arfvidsson, Jonas M{\aa}rtensson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12148

Leveraging Sidewalk Robots for Walkability-Related Analyses
Walkability is a key component of sustainable urban development, while collecting detailed data on its related features remains challenging due to the high costs and limited scalability of traditional methods. Sidewalk delivery robots, increasingly deployed in urban environments, offer a promising solution to these limitations. This paper explores how these robots can serve as mobile data collection platforms, capturing sidewalk-level features related to walkability in a scalable, automated, an…

Scientists identify 4,200 plastic chemicals of concern and highlight safer approaches https://phys.org/news/2025-07-scientists-plastic-chemicals-highlight-safer.html

Scientists identify 4,200 plastic chemicals of concern and highlight safer approaches
Countries are currently negotiating a global treaty to end plastic pollution and make plastics safer and more sustainable. Plastic chemicals are a core issue because all plastics, from food packaging to car tires, contain hundreds of chemicals that can leach into foodstuffs, homes, and the environment.

Optimisation of Activator Solutions for Geopolymer Synthesis: Thermochemical Stability, Sequencing, and Standardisation
Ramon Skane, Franca Jones, Arie van Riessen, Evan Jamieson, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12941

Optimisation of Activator Solutions for Geopolymer Synthesis: Thermochemical Stability, Sequencing, and Standardisation
Geopolymers present a sustainable alternative to conventional binders, however, their commercial viability is hindered by a lack of standardised methods for preparing stabile activator solutions; alkaline feedstocks critical to geopolymer synthesis. This study presents a combined experimental and modelling approach to evaluate the thermochemical stability, solubility constraints, and silica speciation behaviour of sodium silicate-based activators. Using quantitative 29Si NMR analysis, thermodyn…

"Students develop rocket engine powered by beeswax"
#Bees #Rockets
https://techxplor…

Students develop rocket engine powered by beeswax
A group of Kingston University in London engineering students have developed a rocket engine powered by an unusual but highly sustainable energy source—beeswax.

Knowledge Graph-Based approach for Sustainable 6G End-to-End System Design
Akshay Jain, Sylvaine Kerboeuf, Sokratis Barmpounakis, Crist\'obal Vinagre Z., Stefan Wendt, Dinh Thai Bui, Pol Alemany, Riccardo Nicolicchia, Jos\'e Mar\'ia Jorquera Valero, Dani Korpi, Mohammad Hossein Moghaddam, Mikko A. Uusitalo, Patrik Rugeland, Abdelkader Outtagarts, Karthik Upadhya, Panagiotis Demestichas, Raul Mu\~noz, Manuel Gil P\'erez, Daniel Adanza, Ricard Vilalta

Knowledge Graph-Based approach for Sustainable 6G End-to-End System Design
Previous generations of cellular communication, such as 5G, have been designed with the objective of improving key performance indicators (KPIs) such as throughput, latency, etc. However, to meet the evolving KPI demands as well as the ambitious sustainability targets for the ICT industry, 6G will need to be designed differently. Concretely, 6G will need to consider both the performance and sustainability targets for the various use cases it will serve. Moreover, like previous generations, 6G w…

Sunflower protein: the future of sustainable meat? #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Sunflower protein could change the future of sustainable meat
Researchers created burgers from sunflower flour that offer a tasty, nutritious, and eco-friendly meat alternative.

CarbonClarity: Understanding and Addressing Uncertainty in Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Computing
Xuesi Chen, Leo Han, Anvita Bhagavathula, Udit Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01145

CarbonClarity: Understanding and Addressing Uncertainty in Embodied Carbon for Sustainable Computing
Embodied carbon footprint modeling has become an area of growing interest due to its significant contribution to carbon emissions in computing. However, the deterministic nature of the existing models fail to account for the spatial and temporal variability in the semiconductor supply chain. The absence of uncertainty modeling limits system designers' ability to make informed, carbon-aware decisions. We introduce CarbonClarity, a probabilistic framework designed to model embodied carbon footpri…

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Ubada El Joulani, Tatiana Kalganova, Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Sotirios Argyroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01547

AI and Remote Sensing for Resilient and Sustainable Built Environments: A Review of Current Methods, Open Data and Future Directions
Critical infrastructure, such as transport networks, underpins economic growth by enabling mobility and trade. However, ageing assets, climate change impacts (e.g., extreme weather, rising sea levels), and hybrid threats ranging from natural disasters to cyber attacks and conflicts pose growing risks to their resilience and functionality. This review paper explores how emerging digital technologies, specifically Artificial Intelligence (AI), can enhance damage assessment and monitoring of trans…

Integrated Switched Capacitor Array and Synchronous Charge Extraction with Adaptive Hybrid MPPT for Piezoelectric Harvesters
Pramit Karmakar, Siddharth B, Chinmay Murlidhar Kadnur Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12163

Integrated Switched Capacitor Array and Synchronous Charge Extraction with Adaptive Hybrid MPPT for Piezoelectric Harvesters
Energy Harvesting technologies will play a fundamental role in the development of the next generation of electronic systems as well as in advancing the development of sustainable infrastructure. One of the critical challenges in EH is utilizing ambient vibrations to harvest energy. Piezo Energy Harvesting, which uses ambient vibrations, is a promising technology in energy harvesting and a self-powered technology. However, it suffers from several practical challenges. Some of these challenges in…

2D MXene-Based Photocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting and Hydrogen Evolution: A brief review
C. B. Subba, Prasad Mattipally, J. Sivakumar, A. Laref, A. Yvaz, D. P. Rai, Z. Pachuau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13411

2D MXene-Based Photocatalysts for Efficient Water Splitting and Hydrogen Evolution: A brief review
Photocatalytic water splitting offers a viable and sustainable method for hydrogen production. MXenes, a class of 2D transition-metal carbides/nitrides, have emerged as potential photocatalysts and co-catalysts due to their tunable electronic properties, high conductivity, and surface functionality. This review explores recent advances in MXene-based photocatalysts for hydrogen production, discussing their synthesis, electronic structures, and photocatalytic mechanisms. The key challenges, incl…

Siemens and Spinnova revolutionize textiles with sustainable fibers and data-driven innovation. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How Siemens and Spinnova are reinventing the future of textiles
Learn how Spinnova is revolutionizing the fashion industry with sustainable practices that minimize waste and water usage.

EmbAdvisor: Adaptive Cache Management for Sustainable LLM Serving
Yuyang Tian, Desen Sun, Yi Ding, Sihang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23970 https://

EmbAdvisor: Adaptive Cache Management for Sustainable LLM Serving
As large language models (LLMs) become widely used, their environmental impact$\unicode{x2014}$especially carbon emissions$\unicode{x2014}$has attracted more attention. Prior studies focus on compute-related carbon emissions. In this paper, we find that storage is another key contributor. LLM caching, which saves and reuses KV caches for repeated context, reduces operational carbon by avoiding redundant computation. However, this benefit comes at the cost of embodied carbon from high-capacity, …

Not All Water Consumption Is Equal: A Water Stress Weighted Metric for Sustainable Computing
Yanran Wu, Inez Hua, Yi Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22773 …

Not All Water Consumption Is Equal: A Water Stress Weighted Metric for Sustainable Computing
Water consumption is an increasingly critical dimension of computing sustainability, especially as AI workloads rapidly scale. However, current water impact assessment often overlooks where and when water stress is more severe. To fill in this gap, we present SCARF, the first general framework that evaluates water impact of computing by factoring in both spatial and temporal variations in water stress. SCARF calculates an Adjusted Water Impact (AWI) metric that considers both consumption volume…

Stella McCartney introduces compostable plant-based sneakers! #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Stella McCartney’s new plant-based sneakers can be composted
Even sustainable shoes usually have plastic soles. But the S-Wave’s soles are made out of a new bioplastic that’s entirely biodegradable.

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…