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@LaQuadrature @lenuageetaitsousnospieds 🌍💻 À Toulouse, le collectif Good IT sensibilise à l'écologie numérique en mettant en lumière l'impact environnemental des infrastructures numériques. 🌱📉 En organisant des ateliers comme La Fresque du Numérique, ils encouragent des comportements écoresponsables, tels que la réparation et l'achat d'équipements reconditionnés. Agissons pour un numérique durable et responsable ! ✊🏼 #EcologieNumérique #GoodIT #Toulouse #Sustainability #numeriqueresponsable

Good news, everyone :) [If I might be so bold to quote a famous character;)]:

The program of the #TourdeLorraine in online now tourdelorraine.ch #ReclaimingTechnology next years topic

And they invited @tante and me for the opening talk and discussion on January 24th in #Bern #Switzerland

There will be a workshop, too

Check katika-kuehnreich.com/en/2024/ for more information and see you there!

"Harmony in this context is not about uniformity. The true transformative potential of #harmony can be realized by embracing the tensions inherent in #plurality."

Man Fang, Post Growth Fellow, explores how #Chinese #philosophy can complement current approaches to rethinking progress: medium.com/postgrowth/rediscov

Every time you use #ChatGPT, half a litre of #water goes to waste
#GenerativeAI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search. “We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem. That’s why I think personally the No.1 priority for the sector should be #sustainability. Not the #AI race.”
smh.com.au/technology/every-ti

The Sydney Morning Herald · Every time you use ChatGPT, half a litre of water goes to wasteBy David Swan

HT @carolannie

#Agroecology offers blueprint for #resilient farming in northern #Ghana

by Caleb Ahinakwah, 5 Dec 2024

Excerpt: "Alley cropping in practice: Healing the land

"As climatic conditions worsen, farmers in the region are turning to agroforestry techniques. One approach that has taken root, literally, in the Builsa area is alley cropping, which integrates trees with traditional farming practices. Tree Aid, an international nonprofit that works on forest and land restoration projects in Ghana and elsewhere, introduced this technique to farmers in the region in 2014. Farmers have planted rows of trees such as shea, baobab and moringa 12 meters (39 feet) apart, and continued to grow crops like millet, cowpeas and groundnuts beneath them.

"Yakubu Issah began planting baobab and shea trees on his farm five years ago. 'At first, it seemed like extra work with little reward. But now, our millet grows healthier, the soil holds water longer, and we even earn extra income by selling baobab leaves,' he said.

"He added that bees have returned, along with birds and squirrels: 'The farm feels alive again."'

I really struggle to understand the direction of today's society.

For years, we've been saying we need to reduce emissions and consumption, removing chargers from smartphone boxes "to pollute less," then the "AI" comes along and we reopen fossil fuel power plants, increasing consumption and emissions for... well, who knows why!

We make people feel guilty for not switching to an electric car (or one with high energy efficiency), yet we fly for pure leisure, just to get "a few more likes" on YouTube.

We create increasingly efficient electronic devices, focus on the consumption and emissions of data centers (local or remote), and then stop optimizing code and dependencies because "there’s autoscaling" and "resources are cheap."

To me, these are ideological short circuits.