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Listen to interviews with Gerry McGovern as host of World Wide Waste
Ben Schwarz: Is 5G a good thing or not?
Ben's career spans IT to telecoms and the evolving media landscape.
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Vitaly Friedman
Cleaner web design for a better environment
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Manuel Vexler: 5G: A symptom of the Growth Death Cult
The point is that 5G is a solution that is looking for a killer app. 5G exceeds our biological capabilities to read, to watch, to listen. I don’t know a killer app for 5G.
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Steven Gonzalez Monserrate 'Thirsty Data: Data Centers increasing impact on fresh water'
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fixing Futures research training group at Goethe University.
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After The Goldrush
Episode 1: Green Sacrifice Zones. Ireland is the 13th worst country in the world for biodiversity. We are internationally recognized as an ecological desert. “Ireland is one of the worst places on the entire planet for nature,” according to author Eoghan Daltun.
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Pietro Jarre ‘No such thing as sustainable mining’
Pietro Jarre has a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He’s a specialist in geotechnical and environmental issues on waste rock deposits, mining infrastructures, landfills and brownfields.
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Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys nature and communities'
Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently theNational Coordinator oftheGhana Youth Environmental Movement-a leadingyouth-ledenvironment and climate advocacy and campaign group in Ghana.Istarted by asking Perk to tell me more about how the youth movement works
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Kaustubh Thapa 'E - waste : Ultimate Producer Responsibility'
Kaustubh is finishing his PhD at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics.
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John Booth 'Data centers: Data theatre and the tsunami of frivolous data'
John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award.
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Pat and Nuala Geoghegan 'Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland'
Pat and Nuala Geoghegan are farmers from Askeaton, County Limerick. Soon after the Aughinish Alumina aluminum mining factory established itself nearby, their cattle began to get sick and die. And the Geoghegan family got sick. Their beautiful farm became “the killing fields”..
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Thea Kleinmagd 'Designing a smartphone that lasts'
Thea Kleinmagd is a Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone.
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Josh Lepawsky 'Pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal'
Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards.
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Gauthier Roussilhe 'The hidden costs of data centers'
Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable people I have been lucky to chat with about these issues.
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Andy Farnell 'Perils of e-waste and benefits of being a digital vegan'
Andy Farnell is a British computer scientist and author specialising in signals, systems and cybersecurity.
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Hannah Smith 'The hidden weight of code'
Hannah is a freelance WordPress developer from Bristol with a background in Computer Science.
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Sharon Richardson 'Blind belief in data and technology as bad as blind belief in belief.'
Is technology a good thing? That was my first question I asked Dr Sharon Richardson, who is a senior scientist and lecturer in geocomputation at the University of Zurich.
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Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems'
Some people live their ideas. Katie Singer is one of them.
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Anneli Ohvril 'Let’s talk about digital hygiene'
If someone looked inside your computer or your Cloud account would they find a tidy, clean, well-maintained place? Or would they find a messy, chaotic dump. Imagine if old, waste content smelled. How smelly would your computer be?
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Virginie Guerin 'Digital hygiene: a recipe for cleaning up your digital life'
Hear about the many digital sustainability initiatives that are happening in France from Virginie Guerin, an urban planner, who is co-founder of World CleanUp Day France.
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Tom Greenwood 'Is digital the great accelerator of the climate crisis?'
The Website Carbon Calculator is a real go to tool for me when I want to find out how much CO2 a particular web page is creating.
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Sarah Winters 'How COVID-19 drove panic publishing'
When COVID-19 hit, many governments reverted to a panic publishing approach, getting as much content up on their websites as quickly as possible. Structure, organization, testing, it all got shoved aside in the rush to publish. Sarah explains how this sort of panic publishing culture can be avoided in the future because panicking serves nobody.
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Liam Nugent '99.9% of what you do is rubbish'
When Liam Nugent closed down his digital agency he accounted for all the digital stuff they had created. Each employee was generating about 100 gigabytes of data a year. When they cleaned up all this data so as to give a quality hand-off to their clients, they found that 99.9% of the 8 terabytes of data they had created was useless.
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Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy'
Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable.
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Nick Evanson 'Big Data growth is not sustainable'
By 2035, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,000 zettabytes of data produced globally. Based on current storage pricing, 2,000 zettabytes would cost $58 trillion to store. The global economy is currently worth about $80 trillion. The pace and quantity of data production is not even remotely sustainable.
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Jono Alderson ‘The unseen cost of poor web design’
The growth in webpage size over the years has been astounding. It is driven by a culture of delivery, a project mindset, and a feeling that the Web is this unlimited space where you can essentially do anything you want without consequences.
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Jared Spool ‘We will run out of things. We will run out of time.’
Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think deep, broad and wide enough. Jared challenges us to think longer and broader and deeper, to think more connectedly on an earth experience level.
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Chris Coyier ‘Easy to design, hard to use’
Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping digital designs. Chris says we need new thinking and new tools that clearly indicate when we are making design decisions that are bad for the user and bad for the planet.
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Erika Hall ‘Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience’
In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we’ve ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it?
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Karen Peeters ‘Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story’
What is quality when it comes to web design, web development, web management? How do we know the customer is having a quality experience? How do we know as a web professional that we are doing a quality job?
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Eric Meyer ‘Overcoming complexity’s invisible force’
Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. Eric Meyer is a passionate advocate of designing for humanity, of leaving no one behind when you create your design, of thinking deeply about how things work for everyone – not simply how beautiful they look.
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Jeremy Keith ‘We’ve ruined the Web. Here’s how we fix it.’
Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I’m chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet.
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Introducing ‘World Wide Waste’ with Gerry McGovern
We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste.
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