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Green FaaS

NTT Data of Japan are working on a Green Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that will allow deployment and provisioning of functional based cloud computing in n environmentally friendly way, to prioritise low power and emissions timeframes, cloud hosting regions, and efficient hardware, while also embedding monitoring and calculation of Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)

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15 Min City Map

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The Sony Computer Science Laboratories released an interactive 15 minute city map, showing a range of world cities dissected into grids, where each grid is scored based on its distance by foot and by bike to a range of amenities, services and infrastructure.

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Fashion Waste Colonialism In Ghana

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The Guardian published an excellent piece by Fleur Britten about the tonnes of clothing waste from UK fashion retailers that wash up as waste on a beach in Ghana thanks to waste colonialism.

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Ireland's Farming Lobby Mapped

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Desmog have published an eye-opening map of all the organisations, institutions, and individuals that make up the farming lobby in Ireland, that shows that "the gleaming image of Ireland’s agri-produce hides a number of inconvenient truths, among them the damage the sector is wreaking on Ireland’s climate targets, as well as its waterways and soils.".

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Job Climate Action Guides

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The Climate Drawdown project has developed a set of guides for different job categories that list all the ways climate action can be taken in the workplace.

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3D Printed Glass Bricks

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Engineers at MIT have developed 3D printed glass bricks that are as strong as concrete blocks and can be stacked like lego as a building material. They can also be melted down and reused.

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Solar Power From Space

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UK company Space Solar has developed a proposal to gather solar power in space and beam the converted microwave energy to a fixed point on earth.

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Individual & Systemic Climate Action

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Hannah Ritchie posted another great Sustainability by numbers post, this time about the relationship between individual climate action and systemic climate action. Both are needed, and individual action has the power to encourage and support systemic change.

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Tsunami Trapped In Fjord For 9 Days

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In September 2023, a 200m high tsunami sloshed inside a fjord every 92 seconds in Greenland for 9 days, caused by climate change melting ice at the base of a glacier which sent 25 million cubic meters of ice crashing into the water.

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Repair My Stuff

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Repair My Stuff is a directory of repair services that allows users to filter by categories such as electronics, clothes, appliances, and shoes. Each person in Ireland produces 586 Kgs of waste per annum, 6th highest in EU. This website aims to help people reuse and repair rather than replace.

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