OM DENNE EPISODE
This Week in Green Software, host Chris Adams is joined by Gabi Beyer and Brendan Kamp from re:cinq to talk about the recent initiatives to and consequences of the prolonging of the lifecycle of technology. The challenges of measuring carbon emissions in personal laptops and cloud services are discussed, highlighting the complexities of quantifying environmental impact, as well as companies reporting on these metrics. Tune in for a lively discussion on sustainable software development.
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- Brendan Kamp: LinkedIn | GitHub | Website
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News:
- £200m Octopus backing to heat up pioneering Deep Green tech [11:36]
- 2nd-hand phone market hurt by users sweating devices longer • The Register [13:53]
- Google endorses Right-to-Repair law in Oregon • The Register [17:24]
- Chromebook expiration date, repair issues 'bad for people and planet' [18:16]
- Google promises decade of updates for newer Chromebooks • The Register
- Fit for 55 - The EU's plan for a green transition - Consilium [20:07]
- The anti-greenwashing rule: Proposed FCA guidance | South Africa | Global law firm | Norton Rose Fulbright [20:18]
- Baselining Software Carbon Emissions - A Use Case by UBS | GSF [20:54]
- Perf-icient Measuring of Laptop Energy Consumption and CO2e | re:cinq [21:48]
- ABN AMRO Embarks on Hybrid Cloud Transformation [24:54]
- GitHub - re-cinq/cloud-carbon: A open telemetry exporter to calculate the carbon emissions generated by your cloud infrastructure [25:46]
- Amazon claims it was the world's largest buyer of renewable energy in 2023 [26:41]
- How much power do hyperscalers use, and how much would it cost to go fossil-free 24 / 7 ? | Chris Adams [27:57]
- https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/real-time-cloud/issues/20 [30:59]
- Tripling the lifespan of servers: why we retrofitted 14,000 servers | Scaleway [35:39]
Events:
Resources:
- Civo.com [07:26]
- Leaf.cloud [08:06]
- What Is Embodied Carbon? And What Does it Have To Do With Sustainable Software? | re:cinq
- GitHub - re-cinq/cloud-carbon: A open telemetry exporter to calculate the carbon emissions generated by your cloud infrastructure
- https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/policy-wg/issues/59 [24:19]
- Projects | GSF [26:16]
- The Week in Green Software: Code Green and Clean Power | GSF [31:15]
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TRASNCRIPT BELOW:
Brendan Kamp: Transparency, right? I mean, this is the key for the cloud providers, I feel, at the moment, is just become more transparent about some of the, this data so that we can do the work to calculate, but just give us the data to do it, right?
Chris Adams: Hello, and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we discuss the latest news and events surrounding green software. On our show, you can expect candid conversations with top experts in their field who have a passion for how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of software. I'm your host, Chris Adams. Hello, and welcome to another episode of Environment Variables, where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Chris Adams. We don't shy away from diving into the details of sustainability in software development in this podcast. But if we want this to be a field that has widespread adoption, we need to make sure there's space for people entering the field from the wider digital sector, rather than being a specialist place that only really accepts people who have a PhD in green IT already. And it's also good to know about what's happening in the wider world, too. So last year, we started a new format of this podcast that we call This Week in Green Software, which was a sort of roundup of stories and links related to. Yes, you guessed it, Green Software, often with memb...
