Thoroughly enjoyed talking with the excellent folks at UCLIC at UCL on 9th October on the growing and multidimensional impacts of adopting ‘environmentally and energy expensive’ ICT in research and beyond.  They asked great questions 🙂  The slides are online and you can find the actual talk on YouTube.
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Talk: Where’s the value in energy data science?
Thoroughly enjoyed talking about the missing context to energy data time-series with the good folks at Keele in software & systems and Digital Society. Â Check out the slides.
Logistics Chaire Intl Seminar on 9th November on fairer and more sustainable last mile parcel logistics
Delighted to have the opportunity to talk about our fairer and more sustainable gig economy work.
This was part of a 1/2 day event coordinated by Dr. Laetitia Dablanc, Logistics City Chair at University Gustave Eiffel, Paris.  Note that they publish a range of fascinating surveys and data relating to logistics, gig workers and e.g. warehouse distribution, see:
http://lvmt.fr/en/chaires/logistics-city/
Agenda:
- Introduction by Jonathan Sebbane (Sogaris) and Laetitia Dablanc (Logistics City Chair)
- Anne Goodchild (University of Washington) – Bringing curbs to light; estimating the value of digital curb availability data
- Adrian Friday (Lancaster University) – FlipGig: Digitally transforming deliveries and collections in the gig-economy
- Matthieu Schorung (UniversitĂ© Gustave Eiffel) – Geography of warehouses in the United States and spatial patterns of Amazon warehouses
- Giacomo Lozzi (UniversitĂ degli studi Roma TRE) – Improving stakeholder engagement for urban logistics: the L-3D project
- Travis Fried (University of Washington) – New spatial patterns for e-commerce warehousing and implications for equity
- Heleen Buldeo Rai (UniversitĂ© Gustave Eiffel) – Proximity logistics and how warehouses can become good neighbors
Digital Futures Distinguished Lecture on ICT Impacts
Was delighted to be hosted by Digital Futures @ KTH in Sweden, especially the fantastic folks at Sustainable Futures Lab in Media Technology and Interaction Design (funded by Digital Futures’ excellent Scholar in Residence Programme).  As part of this, I got to do a talk on estimates of ICT’s impact and my thoughts on the narratives embedded in this (will efficiency and green energy save ICT from its impacts, is it exceptional and does it enable carbon savings in other domains?). Check it out on YouTube.  My sincere thanks to my hosts for being exceptionally supportive, passionate and kind – and of course for all the Fika and sustainability discussions!
Limits to the sharing economy?
There has been much interest in the Sharing Economy in recent years, accompanied with the hope that it will change and specifically make better use of existing resources. From a sustainability point of view,  sharing of resources is good, surely? It could even be said that the Sharing Economy ought to align well with Computing within Limits and its underlying premises. In this paper with Daniel Pargman and Elina Eriksson at KTH, however, we take a critical stance and will elaborate on the intersection between the Sharing Economy and Limits. Download The paper in PDF format.
Food Design for Sustainability workshop at the Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference, Brighton, 27th July, 2016
Just shy of 1/3rd of our global carbon footprint is food related. Up to 1/3 of the food purchased in the developed world is wasted by the consumer. Approximately 60% of the adult population in the USA, UK and Australia is overweight or obese – with no signs of this trend decreasing.
Selection of low impact foods, available to discuss and eat during the workshop!
Check out our Food Design for sustainability workshop at DRS this year. Also, you can find the engagement cards and food impact data sheets we used and built on during the workshop.