Environment Variables Podcast | Ep 60 TWiGS: Embodied Carbon
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.
Learn more about our people:
* Chris Adams: [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrchrisadams/) | [GitHub](https://github.com/mrchrisadams) | [Website](https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/)
* Gabi Beyer: [LinkedIn](https://nl.linkedin.com/in/gabibeyer) | [GitHub](https://github.com/gabibeyer)
* Brendan Kamp: [LinkedIn](https://nl.linkedin.com/in/brendan-kamp-757e) | [GitHub](https://github.com/Spazzy757) | [Website](https://blog.thegreencoder.io/)
Find out more about the GSF:
* [The Green Software Foundation Website](https://greensoftware.foundation/)
* Sign up to the [Green Software Foundation Newsletter](https://greensoftware.foundation/)
News:
* [£200m Octopus backing to heat up pioneering Deep Green tech](https://businesscloud.co.uk/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](https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/23/second_hand_device_market/) [13:53]
* [Google endorses Right-to-Repair law in Oregon • The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/12/google_endorses_right_to_repair/) [17:24]
* [Chromebook expiration date, repair issues ‘bad for people and planet’](https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/18/chromebook_expiration_date_and_repair/) [18:16]
* [Google promises decade of updates for newer Chromebooks • The Register](https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/14/google_chromebook_10_years_updates/)
* [Fit for 55 – The EU’s plan for a green transition – Consilium](https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/green-deal/fit-for-55-the-eu-plan-for-a-green-transition/) [20:07]
* [The anti-greenwashing rule: Proposed FCA guidance | South Africa | Global law firm | Norton Rose Fulbright](https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en-za/knowledge/publications/0bac916f/the-anti-greenwashing-rule-proposed-fca-guidance) [20:18]
* [Baselining Software Carbon Emissions – A Use Case by UBS](https://greensoftware.foundation/articles/baselining-software-carbon-emissions-ubs-use-case) | GSF [20:54]
* [Perf-icient Measuring of Laptop Energy Consumption and CO2e](https://blog.re-cinq.com/posts/perf-energy-consumption/) | re:cinq [21:48]
* [ABN AMRO Embarks on Hybrid Cloud Transformation](http://news.vmware.com/emea/multi-cloud/abn-amro-embarks-on-hybrid-cloud-transformation#:~:text=To%20speed%20up%20time%20to,there%2C%E2%80%9D%20van%20Groningen%20explains) [24:54]
* [GitHub – re-cinq/cloud-carbon: A open telemetry exporter to calculate the carbon emissions generated by your cloud infrastructure](https://github.com/re-cinq/cloud-carbon) [25:46]
* [Amazon claims it was the world’s largest buyer of renewable energy in 2023](https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/amazon-claims-it-was-the-worlds-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 ?](https://rtl.chrisadams.me.uk/2024/01/how-much-power-do-hyperscalers-use-and-how-much-would-it-cost-to-go-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](https://www.scaleway.com/en/blog/the-transformers-project/) [35:39]
Events:
* [Carbon Hack 24: Where measurement meets innovation, and impact knows no bounds](https://greensoftware.foundation/articles/carbon-hack-24-where-measurement-meets-innovation-and-impact-knows-no-bounds/) [39:52]
Resources:
* [Civo.com](https://www.civo.com/) [07:26]
* [Leaf.cloud](https://leaf.cloud/) [08:06]
* [What Is Embodied Carbon? And What Does it Have To Do With Sustainable Software?](https://blog.re-cinq.com/posts/embodied-carbon/) | re:cinq
* [GitHub – re-cinq/cloud-carbon: A open telemetry exporter to calculate the carbon emissions generated by your cloud infrastructure](https://github.com/re-cinq/cloud-carbon)
* https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/policy-wg/issues/59 [24:19]
* [Projects | GSF](https://greensoftware.foundation/projects/) [26:16]
* [The Week in Green Software: Code Green and Clean Power](https://podcast.greensoftware.foundation/e/m843r9xn-the-week-in-green-software-code-green-and-clean-power) | GSF [31:15]
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