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| === 10 Bold Ideas for a Sustainable Internet ===
| | **10 bold ideas to [[Projects/Micro_Climates]]** |
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| ==== Make Sustainability Engineering a career pathway ====
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| * Sustainability engineering needs to be an recognized professional specialization as well as a skill integrated across the engineering field. | |
| * Similar to accsssibility in web development, sustainability should be foundational in any developer's practice. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility | |
| * This means incorparting sustainability engineering into computer science courses and educational programs.
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| * And hiring for these roles and as well as upskilling existing developers in this area.
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| * The tech profession should pressure non-compliant sites to invest in their sustainability and to follow best practices in engineering.
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| ==== Budget for 1 planet ====
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| * Learn to count carbon.
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| * Ensure your budgets account for carbon costs as well as financial ones.
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| * Encourage and teach others to set carbon budgets.
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| * Use the Platform, Packets and Process to categorize carbon costs for digital projects. https://planetfriendlyweb.org/
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| ==== Get the magnitudes right ====
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| * It's not always intuitive what changes will result in the most environmental gains.
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| * Quantify and openly publish tests and measurements about the carbon footprint of your digital work. Compare that carbon cost of other activities, like flying or running a load of laundry. This helps build a better understanding of how "expensive" internet-related activities are.
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| * What is most effective depends on your context, and to win, we need to at least have an idea of what is effective to the nearest magnitude.
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| * https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/interactive_latency.html, but for carbon.
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| * Consider rebound effects.
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| ==== Change the Aesthetic ====
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| * What is desirable in one era can seem outdated and undesirable years later when societal norms change. We should design and code for a new sensibility, one that is irresistably sustainable.
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| * Like it or not, tech is a fashion driven industry. Make the transition irresistable, and the everyday injustices outrageous.
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| * Make caring about climate impact part of being a good professional.
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| ==== Ask the Right Questions ====
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| * We need a Joel test for Climate. A set of yes/no questions to ask when finding your next job, that show if an org is taking the climate crisis seriously.
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| * For example: "Does this company collaborate with the fossil fuel industry?"
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| ** is there a public commitment to net zero emissions?
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| ** is there a public timeline to reach net zero emissions?
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| ** are there a public independent audit of progress on the way?
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| ** is there disclosure of how much biz comes from projects to help extract fossil fuels?
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| ==== Keep it in the Ground ====
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| * It is socially unacceptable to work on getting fossil fuel out of the ground in a climate emergency. We should not be working on projects to help extract fossil fuels, ever.
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| ** Qn: "Does this project help get fossil fuels out the ground?
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| ** A: Yes?
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| ** You: Not working on it. End of discussion.
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| ==== Use equity for equity ====
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| * The work you do isn't the only lever you have. Money works for you too.
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| * Shares in your pension delay climate action - ask and switch.
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| * Stock you are paid in can force discussions that need to happen - use it like Amazon for Climate do.
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| * Divest your pension. https://gofossilfree.org/resources-tools/
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| ==== Serve the planet ====
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| * Like a national service, or a tour in something like the Peace Corp, but without the problematic colonial bits. Because climate is a planetary problem, that we solve en mass, not by relying on single heroic figures. Frame it accordingly.
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| ==== Fight denial ====
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| * Understand that algorithms and misinformation play a key role in delaying climate action.
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| * Develop information recommendation algorithms in a way that favor science-based information.
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| * Optimise for truth, not clicks. | |
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| ==== Other ideas ====
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| * Machine-readable Sustainability Transparency Reports | |
| * The browser as a demonstration site for sustainability engineering
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| * The right to repair
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| === Notes === | | === Notes === |