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The Week in Green Software: Obscuring AI's Real Carbon Footprint
Environment Variables
09/19/24 • 43 min
Learn more about our people:Find out more about the GSF:News:
- The Environmental Impacts of AI -- Primer | Hugging Face[03:12]
- How Tech Companies Are Obscuring AI's Real Carbon Footprint | Bloomberg [22:25]
- AI analysed 1,500 policies to cut emissions. These ones worked | Nature [32:48]
- Does the EU AI Act really call for tracking inference as well as training in AI models? | Chris Adams [12:21]
- Simon Willison on openai [14:15]
- EnergyStarAI (AI Energy Star Project) | Hugging Face [16:12]
- Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct · Hugging Face [21:28]
- Jevons paradox and greening software—why increasing efficiency makes sense | ASIM.DEV [21:51]
- Olivier Corradi [27:43]
- Real-Time Cloud | GSF [28:41]
- GitHub - Green-Software-Foundation/real-time-cloud
- Reviewing the evidence we accept for Green hosting verification | Green Web Foundation [31:06]
- The Week in Green Software: Modeling Carbon Aware Software | TWiGS with Iegor Riepin [37:18]
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Asim Hussain: Three, four years ago, everybody treated all carbon offsets the same. They didn't realize there was nuance between them. Now that's changed. Everybody needs to now pay attention to the same thing in terms of renewable energy. If you do not pay attention to the fact that there is a lot of ...
How do we Teach Green Software?
Environment Variables
07/25/22 • 42 min
The future of Green Software lies in education. In this episode host Chris Adams is joined by Luis Cruz of TU Delft and Sara Bergman of Microsoft as they discuss how to teach and learn to make Green Software. With Luis’ unique insight as a professor, he is able to bring us up to date with pedagogical approaches that are laying the groundwork for future software engineers.
Learn more about our guests:
- Chris Adams: LinkedIn / GitHub / Website
- Sara Bergman: LinkedIn / Twitter
- Luis Cruz: LinkedIn / Twitter / Website (with course info).
- The Green Software Foundation Website
- Sign up to the Green Software Foundation Newsletter
- Luis’ open source course on sustainable software engineering, taught at TU Delft
- Sara’s Paper on performance characteristics of Blockchains and other distributed consensus mechanisms
- Person: Simin Nadjm-Tehrani - IEEE Xplore Author Profile
- Person: Hannah Smith: Educator - Hannah Smith (opcan.co.uk)
- Person: Sabine Canditt and her book Small steps. Large... by Sabine Canditt
- Person: Patricia Lago: Full Professor at VUAmsterdam.
- Person: Elina Eriksson: Associate Professor KTH.
- Person: Mikael Asplund: Linköping University.
- Person: Sandra Pallier - ClimateAction.tech organiser and designer at Microsoft.
- Person: Colleen Josephson - VM Ware. Collen’s recent talk and paper at ACM Energy.
- Person: Bilge Acun - Facebook/Meta - See Carbon Explorer on github.
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Luis Cruz: If you want to change the generation of software engineers, you need to change the mindset of their leaders and you need to start earlier....
Decarbonize Software 2023 Preview with Adam Jackson
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09/14/23 • 30 min
- Decarb.greensoftware.foundation 👈 REGISTER HERE
- Electricity Maps [6:47]
- Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification Project | GSF [14:09]
- Green Software for Practitioners (LFC131) | Linux Foundation Training [14:09]
- Green Software Foundation YouTube Channel [16:49]
- State of Green Software | Green Software Foundation [17:38]
- Meetup Program | GSF [17:54]
- Amadeus [20:15]
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Adam Jackson: But really this year's event is about our community and the stories they have to share. We're interested in seeing what people have done with green software in 2023. But yeah, the theme is about, the theme of the event is about empowering software practitioners to decarbonize sotware and to build communities and we want to see what people have done.
Chris Skipper: Welcome to this episode of Environment Variables. I'm your host, Chris Skipper, and in this episode, we will be discussing the upcoming Decarbonize Software 2023 event with the Green Software Foundation's Community Project Manager, Adam Jackson. Hello, Adam, and welcome to Environment Variables.
Adam Jackson: Hi, Chris. I'm really excited to be here.
Chris Skipper: Great, good to have you, and Just before we dive into the meat of this podcast for our listeners, could you please introduce yourself?
Adam Jackson: Yeah, absolutely. So I'm Adam Jackson. I'm the Community Project Manager at the Green Software Foundation. Really excited to be here, as I said. I've been with the Green Software Foundation a few months now. I've also got my own little company helping tech companies connect their communities. And I've recently been involved in setting up a bunch of green software meetups around the world.
Chris Skipper: Awesome for those who don't know me, I'm Chris Skipper. I can't say my name apparently. And I'm the podcast producer of Environment Variables. And a veritable noob when it comes to green software, and in fact, all things software. Um, but I feel like I have acquired a lot of knowledge about the subject that would hopefully make me a good addition to any pub quiz team.
Now, before we dive in, here's a reminder that everything we talk about will be linked in the show notes below this episode. So, to kick us off, I've got a really simple question for you. Let's talk about what your role is like at the Green Software Foundation. I know you've said, how long did you say you've been part of the Green Software Foundation
Adam Jackson: Now, four, four and a half months now.
Chris Skipper: four and a half months, so relatively green to the Green Software Foundation, but then again, the organization itself is also quite young. What does being the community project manager at the GSF entail and what are your responsibilities and goals in the role?
Adam Jackson: Uh, yeah, sure. So it's, it's quite a broad role, um, because community is a very big part of the Green Software...
The Week in Green Software: Generative AI and Cloud Zombies
Environment Variables
04/12/23 • 26 min
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- Generative AI and cloud zombies: Raising the alarm about global climate impact: / Silicon Angle [2:48]
- Report on ChatGPT Model’s Emissions Offers Rare Glimpse of AI’s Climate Impacts: / Truthout.org [2:48]
- Xbox’s New Energy Measurement Tools are World Changing: / Xbox [6:23]
- Wagtail and the summer of code / GitHub [14:32]
- LF Energy Summit ( June 1 at 2:05 pm - 2:35 pm CET • Paris & Virtual) [19:35]
- GreenTech Southwest Meetup (April 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Bristol & Virtual) [20:00]
- PS5 Power Consumption / ecoenergygeek [10:58]
- The UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumer Bill / Linklaters Sustainable Futures [20:16]
- The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services / 451 Research [21:02]
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Aerin Booth: When I think about anything we choose to do, not only in terms of carbon and IT, but in our life, if it doesn't have purpose, it's almost a waste. And we forget that we're not really building things for ourselves in technology. We're trying to build services for one, helps people in their day-to-day lives and hopefully save the freaking planet in the next upcoming climate change catastrophe the rest of our lives.
Chris Adams: Hello and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we discuss the latest news and events surrounding green software. On our show, you can expect candid conversations with top experts in their field who have a passion for how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of software.
I'm your host, Chris Adams. Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Week in Green Software, where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Chris Adams, and in this episode we'll be discussing generative AI worrying impact that I could be having on the environment.
We'l...
Greening Low Code
Environment Variables
04/04/24 • 36 min
Learn more about our people:Find out more about the GSF:News:
- Introducing Flowty - Build low carbon, self-hosted Webflow sites - Fershad Irani [23:22]
- Data Center Factsheet [29:36]
- Introduction to ESG [11:51]
- ESG and Climate Change | Coursera
- Mendix [14:32]
- WordPress [14:39]
- Zapier [14:49]
- Creatio [14:50]
- N8N [15:39]
- Windmill.dev [22:42]
- OutSystems [34:15]
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Marjolein Pordon: With all the emails we send, inclusive, reply all, the, "yes, I'll see you in a minute." All those kinds of emails, there are 12 000 times from earth to the moon with a car on carbon emission. That's huge.
Chris Adams: Hello, and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we discuss the latest news and events surrounding green software. On our show, you can expect candid conversations with top experts in their field who have a passion for how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of software.
I'm your host, Chris Adams.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Environment Variables, the podcast where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Chris Adams. When we talk about green software, we often talk about optimizing code we already have, or finding out ways to make the energy we use less carbon intensive.
So for the computation we do end up using, we end up with less pollution in the form of greenhouse gases and so on being emitted as a byproduct of our work. However, there's another way to look at this. If we accept that the most efficient database query possible is one that you don't have to make because you've designed a system not to need them,
then you can argue that the most efficient system can be one that you haven't had to spend loads of time, energy and money building, building an entirely custom version of, because you found an existing set of components that work well together. This is essentially the argument made when pe...
Fact Check: Ola Fagerström and Microsoft's Surface Emissions Estimator
Environment Variables
04/26/23 • 45 min
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- Microsoft’s Surface Emissions Estimator Announcement
- Ola’s Post on LinkedIn about Microsoft Surface Emissions Estimator / LinkedIn [7:46]
- Energy Star Calculation / Energy Star [15:51]
- Microsoft Edge Green Tabs / Microsoft [23:13]
- Internal Carbon Fee / Microsoft [37:12]
- New EU Laws on CSRD / European Commission [41:59]
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Ola Fagerström: When is the first company going to start to say, we only allow eight tabs open? Because if you start to have, I'm just making numbers up, 16 tabs, you might run to your boss and say, Hey, I need a device with the 32 gigs of memory because my memory is constantly filled. Yeah, sorry. We put a policy that you can only have eight tabs open because that will save on the memory, and therefore we can buy cheaper or devices that are actually greener.
Asim Hussain: Hello, and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we discuss the latest news and events surrounding green software. On our show, you can expect candid conversations with top experts in their field who have a passion for how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of software.
I'm your host, Asim Hussain.
So welcome to Environment Variables, where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Asim Hussain. In this episode, we have a very special guest for an episode of Fact check on Environment Variables from Microsoft Surface. We have technology specialist Ola Fagerström.
Ola Fagerström: Hi there, Asim. What a nice, uh, way to get introduced as a special guest and.
Asim Hussain: Probably worse ways of being introduced isn't there? Not so special guest anyway. Ola, like it's great to have you on the show. Obviously we were colleagues at Microsoft, we're both circling kind of the sustainability space. I'm not at Microsoft anymore. So to give our listeners some context, could yo...
The Week in Green Software: The Sustainable Data Paradox
Environment Variables
10/03/24 • 42 min
Learn more about our people:Find out more about the GSF:News:
- Report: Thinking about using AI? - Green Web Foundation [03:54]
- Why Cloud Provider GHG Reporting isn’t enough: The Case for Product-Level Accountability [14:16]
- Is sustainable data storage a paradox? | TechRadar [33:03]
- GSF Global Summit in London Summit (October 1 at 6 pm BST · London) [37:56]
- GSF Global Summit inGlobal Summit Munich Summit 2024 (October 1 at 1:30 pm CEST · Munich):
- GSF Global Summit in Green Software Summit Hamburg (October 1 at 1:30 CEST · Hamburg)
- GSF Global Summit in Dublin (October 8 at 9:00 am BST · Dublin):
- Green Software Summit Berlin (October 9 at 6:30 pm · Berlin):
- GSF Global Summit in Singapore Edition 2024 (October 9 and 9:00 am SGT · Singapore):
- GSF Global Summit in2024 Tokyo (October 9 at 6:00 pm JST · Tokyo):
- Building Green Software [Book] [02:04]
- Greening Digital and the Rebound Effect | Environment Variables [11:36]
- GitHub - Green-Software-Foundation/real-time-cloud [21:35]
- Green Software Maturity Matrix [21:55]
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Sara Bergman: What data do we need to take in order to take meaningful action? Like, what is the level that, of course, yeah, if I could get minute by minute, like there's tons of stuff we could do and correlations we could draw, but what is the level of data that we would need to start taking meaningful action? And I think that could unlock a lot of good things.
Chris Adams: Hello, and welcome to Environment Variables, brought to you by the Green Software Foundation. In each episode, we di...
Backstage: TOSS Project
Environment Variables
10/10/24 • 14 min
- GitHub - Green-Software-Foundation/toss: Transforming Organisational Software Sustainability (TOSS) [01:28]
- Transforming Organizational Software Sustainability | GSF
- Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification Project | GSF [03:47]
- GitHub - Green-Software-Foundation/sci: A specification that describes how to calculate a carbon intensity for software applications.
- Impact Framework [03:54]
- GitHub - Green-Software-Foundation/if: Impact Framework
- Sustainable AI: Myth vs Reality (October 15 at 6 pm CEST · Amsterdam) [12:49]
- CNCF Sustainability Week - Cloud Native for Green Software (October 15 at 6:30 pm CEST · Hybrid · Karlsruhe) [13:02]
- Code Green London October Meetup (October 15 at 7:00 pm · London) [13:25]
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TRANSCRIPT BELOW:
Chris Skipper: Welcome to Environment Variables, where we bring you the latest news and updates from the world of sustainable software development. I'm your host, Chris Skipper. Today, we're launching an exciting new segment:
Backstage. Here, we'll take you behind the scenes at the Green Software Foundation to highlight ongoing projects and share insights from the members directly involved.
In the first episode of Backstage, you'll hear about innovative projects shaping the future of green software and the hard work behind it all. It's easy to overlook the complexity and dedication required to drive sustainability in the tech industry. But today, you'll hear more about the passion, thoughtfulness, and expertise that fuels these initiatives.
From collaborative projects to cutting edge research on sustainable computing, the Green Software Foundation is the conversation you need to be part of, and we're bringing you Deep Inside. Join us as we look into the stories, challenges, and triumphs of the people making a real impact on our environment through software.
We're no longer gatekeeping what it takes to set new standards and norms to green software. So, what does it take to inject su...
A Greener Internet that Sleeps More
Environment Variables
07/25/24 • 59 min
Learn more about our people:Find out more about the GSF:Resources:
- SCION Architecture [11:30]
- Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology (eimpact) [17:15]
- Why we should be intentional about the mental models we use for thinking when we think about digital sustainability | Chris Adams [18:30]
- A Sleep Study for ISP Networks: Evaluating Link Sleeping on Real World Data | Romain Jacob, Lukas Röllin and Laurent Vanbever [18:59]
- Network energy use not directly proportional to data volume: The power model approach for more reliable network energy consumption calculations | David Mytton [38:55]
- Co2.js - The Issue | The Green Web Foundation [42:57]
- Rethinking Allocation in High-Baseload Systems: A Demand-Proportional Network Electricity Intensity Metric — University of Bristol | Daniel Schien [43:53]
- Introducing Web Sustainability Guidelines | 2023 | Blog | W3C [49:31]
- Greening of Streaming [52:16]
- Network Power Zoo | ETH Zurich [54:46]
- A Primer on Optimistic UI | Imhoff
- Response Time Limits: Article by Jakob Nielsen | NN Group
- Optimistic UI Patterns for Improved Perceived Performance | Simon Hearne
- Reducing the Energy Footprint of Cellular Networks with Delay-Tolerant Users | IEEE Journals & Magazine
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Romain Jacob: We used to consider that energy is cheap. Energy is there. We don't need to worry too much about it. So it's just simpler to plug the thing in, assume energy is there. You can draw power as much as you want, whenever you want, for as much as you want. And it's time to get away from that.
Remembering Abhishek Gupta: How does AI and ML Impact Climate Change?
Environment Variables
10/17/24 • 43 min
In Memoriam: Abhishek Gupta:
Learn more about our guests:
- Chris Adams: LinkedIn / GitHub / Website
- Will Buchanan: LinkedIn
- Abhishek Gupta: LinkedIn
- Lynn Kaack: LinkedIn / Latest Paper
- ClimateAction.tech [3:44]
- Green Web Foundation [3:49]
- Green Software Foundation’s Standards and Innovation Working Group [4:14]
- Montreal AI Ethics Institute [4:43]
- Hertie School Berlin [5:50]
- Aligning Artificial Intelligence with Climate Change Mitigation [6:32]
- The IPCC [7:11]
- Paper: Green AI | Roy Schwartz, Emma Strubell, Jesse Dodge [8:37]
- Project: Pachama [9:33]
- Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms [10:34]
- Project: This Climate Does Not Exist [10:48]
- Austrian Institute of Technology | Infrared [11:32]
- Jevons Paradox [20:19]
- The GHG Protocol [23:27]
- Legislation: The EU AI Act [25:08]
- Paper; Measuring the Carbon Intensity of AI in Cloud Instances | Will Buchanan et al. [30:08]
- ONNX Runtime [37:02]
- TinyML [37:09]
- GitHub: Dynamic Batch Inferencing - Taylor Prewitt & Ji Hoon Kang of UW
- GitHub: NVIDIA Triton server on AzureML & Model Analyzer
- Green Software Foundation Summit
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