Green IO

We’re facing an existential environmental threat - but is there enough time to fight back against the increasing momentum of tech-related planetary collapse?
That’s the 8 billion-person question. And here to help us answer it is a returning Gerry McGovern, back to share everything he’s learned during the making of his new book, ‘99th Day: A Warning About Technology’.
Throughout this insightful discussion, Gaël and Gerry wrestle with a central thought:
Does technological advancement automatically mean societal and environmental decline?

The pair discuss Gerry’s unique writing style, his journey from rock’n’rolla to technology journalist, how he found his calling and hopes for the future.
Gerry McGovern and Gaël also dive into:
Is digital still a positive transformer for the environment?
Lessons we can learn from indigenous societies
Is ‘AI’ a useful tool, or a crude chainsaw?
The second order effects of mining
What is the ‘Growth Death Cult’?
Can we turn it all around?
And much, much more.

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Sustainability data isn’t just for the marketing department - it’s becoming an increasingly important element for regulatory compliance.So how easy is it for your business to report and that information?On today’s special episode (recorded live at Green IO Paris), Gaël is joined by Chris Adams, Director of Tech and Policy at the Green Web Foundation. He’s here to tell us about carbon.txt, a new tool from the GWF that aims to make sustainability data transparent, easy to share and verify. Hopefully this can spark few conversations around new norms for digital sustainability.

How hard is it to make a mobile phone that’s low on environmental impact and big on ethics?

Perhaps a radical idea to some, but that’s one of the main aims of Faiphone, a mobile phone maker that’s all about creating systemic change from within the industry.

And as Fairphone Tech Lead Agnes Crepet explains, this goal isn’t just a lofty ambition, but something that is actually being achieved thanks to the participation of chipset makers, suppliers, factories, software vendors and everyone in between.

Since joining Fairphone over seven years ago, Agnes has helped the company deliver on the promise of creating ethical, social and environmental impact by designing and building products that put people and planet first. That means pioneering fairer working conditions, ensuring a living wage, considerations of materials and where they are sourced, and a focus on device longevity through end-user repairability and extended software support.

But, that’s only half the story…

It’s time that we reframe sustainability as a criterion for success, not just a checkbox on a regulatory report.

And on today’s episode of Green IO, Gaël is joined Jo Masraff and Sathpal Singh, two domain experts who demonstrate how changing our approach to sustainability can be a key difference maker for businesses across any industry. Jo and Sath also discuss the key findings from the recent Digital Product Sustainability Pulse Report, along with what they’ve seen in the field first hand, and (realistic) hopes for the future.

They say that numbers don’t lie… but what if we are looking at the wrong numbers to begin with?

On today’s episode of Green IO, Gaël is joined by Cathleen Berger who is here to help us decipher why accurate emissions reporting is so crucial, and why Big Tech continues to make big mistakes when it comes to the figures they release.

Because as the former Head of Sustainability at Mozilla, a lecturer at the Friedrich Schiller University and the head of research and policy for the Deputy Chair on the Digital Committee of the German parliament it’s safe to say that Cathleen knows a thing or two about why accurate data matters.