Changes

With the outbreak of the pandemic, we turn even ever more to the internet to socialize, to work, to inform, to buy, to entertain, to heal, to escape and to organize. The MIT Technology Review reports a surge in internet usage since January 2020. Even before this uptake, information and communications technology systems accounted for 2% of the world’s carbon emissions, as reported in [https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y Nature]. With all the benefits of connection, this also means the internet’s emissions have been rising this year.

The first issue will feature visions for a more sustainable internet as well as practical efforts to get us there. We hope to not only articulate what these desirable futures are, but also to embody them with specific tools and art.Contributors include climate activists, open source technologists, indigenous leaders, artists, energy scientists and degrowth experts.

“A Sustainable Internet ''an open submission process coming in early July'' Contributions will respond to questions like, “How do we build for All” is scheduled to launch at and with the end values of the summer 2020.a sustainable internet? How do we address power in web design and code? How can we creatively counteract societal inequalities amplified online? How might we bridge niches of sustainable experimentation and critical making to have a larger impact?”