Digital sustainability

Digital sustainability

András Ács Pedersen and Jesper Balslev
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Digital sustainability

  • 0. Introduction
    • Chapter overview
    • Happy reading!
  • Part one - Why digital sustainability?
  • 1. Setting the stage: Fundamental concepts of sustainability and digital development
    • Why is sustainability urgently important right now?
    • Fundamental sustainability concepts
    • Environmental aspects of sustainability: energy and materials
    • Organizations shape our sustainable future
    • Societal - and individual - aspects of sustainability
    • A more sustainable digital future
    • Chapter summary: Your role in the transformation
  • 2. Critical thinking and systems theory
    • In this chapter
    • Systems theory
    • System interactions: video streaming as an example
    • What exactly is a system?
    • Emergent systems
    • Designed systems
    • Digital twins
    • Systems thinking and critical thinking
    • Ask questions and think critically
    • Digital systems vs. ecosystems: Differences, similarities and synergies
    • E-commerce as an example of a system model
    • Network theory can complement systems theory
    • Systems were traditionally compared to machines
    • Chapter summary: Systems thinking and network understanding are key
  • 3. The impact of information technology on environment and society
    • How earth’s orbit became polluted so fast
    • The physical side of information technology
    • Hardware: A sustainable lifecycle?
    • Network and cloud: Challenges and opportunities
    • Software: Key sustainability aspects
    • How can we make information technology more sustainable?
    • Chapter summary: Software, hardware, and the way forward
  • Part two - How to work with digital sustainability?
  • 4. Digital design with sustainability
    • Design that does good – in the long term
    • Approaches for sustainable design
    • User experience (UX) design
    • User interfaces and interaction design 
    • Nudging: Guiding sustainable user behavior
    • Chapter summary: Expanding the scope of digital design
  • 6. (Not quite) sustainable hardware and IT operations
    • (Not quite) sustainable electronics products
    • Building less unsustainable computers
    • Fairphone, a more fair smartphone
    • On the road to sustainable information technology
    • Thought experiment - real, sustainable computers
    • Lo-fi computing, low carbon computing, collapse informatics
    • More sustainable IT operations
    • 9 recommendations for companies’ green IT transition
    • SustainableIT : standards for environmental, social and corporate sustainability
    • Chapter summary: Circular hardware and sustainable electronics
  • 7. Wellness, well-being and digitalization
    • What is the problem with digitalization?
    • The flip side of digitalization: examples of unhappiness in a technological world
    • Other policy focal points for social sustainability
    • CSRD : requirements for documentation of sustainability efforts
    • Sustainability in practice
    • Digital well-being
    • The potential for innovative, socially sustainable IT
    • Socially sustainable UX in practice
    • Actions from nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)
    • Chapter summary: Soft values and hard metrics
  • Part three
  • 8. Digital degrowth
    • Eroom’s law
    • Low carbon and sustainable computing
    • Computing within Limits
    • Permacomputing
    • A solar-powered website
    • Convivial computing
    • Junkyard computing
    • Chapter summary: The Role of Low-Tech Solutions
  • 9. Towards a greener, healthier and brighter digital future
  • Appendix: Best practices for sustainable IT and digitalization
    • 🌱💻✨♻️🌍 Overarching design principles for sustainable digital solutions
    • 🌱💻 Sustainability principles for the use of hardware
    • 🔌🌍 Sustainability principles for network and cloud
    • 💾♻️ Sustainability principles for software
    • Summary
  • Bibliography
Digital sustainability/8. Digital degrowth

8. Digital degrowth

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Eroom’s law

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Low carbon and sustainable computing

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Computing within Limits

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Permacomputing

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A solar-powered website

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Convivial computing

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Junkyard computing

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Chapter summary: The Role of Low-Tech Solutions

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9. Towards a greener, healthier and brighter digital future

In this chapter

  • 8. Digital degrowth
  • Eroom’s law
  • Low carbon and sustainable computing
  • Computing within Limits
  • Permacomputing
  • A solar-powered website
  • Convivial computing
  • Junkyard computing
  • Chapter summary: The Role of Low-Tech Solutions