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Revisiting ‘Thinking the unthinkable’
In October, I wrote a post which gave an overview of a (failed) bid to JISC.
“What will happen to the provision of a technology dependent education when energy consumption is restricted by recurring interruptions in supply and significant spikes in costs?” This project aims to address this question by re-framing ‘Sustainable ICT’ within the context [...]
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The bottom line of energy, efficiencies and the economy
Some visual note-taking from documents I’ve been reading. No big surprises but useful reminders of some fundamental observations. In summary, they show that:
global energy production is increasing
global energy consumption is increasing
global energy use per capita is increasing
increasing energy efficiency does not lead to an overall reduction in energy use
correspondingly, global emissions are rising
economic growth is [...]
‘Green ICT’ : More efficiently unsustainable?
My slides for the Digital 2020 GreenICT mini-conference:
There are quite extensive notes which can be read from slide 21 onwards.
Green ICT: More Efficiently Unsustainable?
View more documents from Joss Winn.
UPDATE
In retrospect, I think these slides are pretty incoherent. I tried to make up for this by adding notes and references and figured that when I gave [...]
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JISC Greening ICT Keynote Presentation