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Democratising Air Quality

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Raising Awareness of Digital Carbon Emissions

Raising Awareness of Digital Carbon Emissions. How can you visualise the carbon emissions of video calls? Find out about my approach using a Video Carbon Gauge.

Carbon Constrained Interviews It is easy to not realise that even our digital activities have a carbon impact. Sending emails, writing blog articles, checking you video door bell, communicating on Slack or social media all create carbon emissions. These carbon emissions derive from the energy used to mine the components, build and ship the devices we use – aka ’embodied emissions’ – to  the…

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AI and Creativity

With massive leaps in AI such as DALL·E 2 and ChatGPT, should creatives fear, reject or embrace the technology?

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The Role of Technology and Sustainability

The Role of Technology and Sustainability: How technologies are helping us achieve a more sustainable planet and more sustainable business.

How Technology Can Help Us Achieve Sustainability The world is at a crossroads when it comes to sustainability. The way we produce and consume goods and services is putting increasing pressure on the planet’s finite resources. At the same time, we are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of a rapidly growing global population. Fortunately, there is a way forward. Sustainable development…

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COP15, Digital Sequence Information and Technology

One of the things that stood out from COP15 in Montreal was DSI. What is Digital Sequence Information (DSI) and how can technology help?

It seems there was quite a bit of good to come from the COP15 summit on Montreal, but I want to dig into one of the landmark outcomes in this short post. COP15 (not to be confused with COP26 or COP27) was the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity. This particular meeting came hot on the heels of the climate focused COP in Sharm el-Sheikh and…

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Can Nature Find a Way?

Can Nature Find a Way?

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How to implement carbon awareness across your business, carbon budgets

How to implement carbon awareness across your business, carbon budgets

In this article I take a look at defining carbon awareness, talk about global and personal carbon budgets and finish by looking at how businesses could use these to drive accountability of carbon reductions throughout their businesses. Here’s a quick jump-to list for this article: Carbon Awareness Personal Carbon Budgets Cascading Carbon Budgets through organisations  What is Carbon…

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Such an amazing comment from my recent “Becoming a business for good” webinar - now available on my YouTube channel #webinar #sustainability #businessasaforceforgood #climateaction #socialimpact #smallbusinessuk https://www.instagram.com/p/Clg6nnjNO6y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Vincent Van Gogh once said “great things happen when a series of small things come together”. When it comes to digital carbon footprints there are many small things we can each to every single day. #digitalcarbonfootprint #carbonfootprint #sustainability #digitalsustainability #unsdgs #smallthings #habitchange #climateaction #climatechange (at Manchester, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHMqJGtaZm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Private companies have an “obligation” to contribute to climate solutions

Private companies have an “obligation” to contribute to climate solutions

There’s a lot of talk happening in Egypt this week about how developed economies should be providing more financial aid to developing economies in order to both compensate for climate loss, as well as help decarbonise those economies. There have been many powerful comments and commitments, but it was a comment made by Nicola Sturgeon, First Minister of Scotland that caught my attention today. She…

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Reducing 20% of 20%, Carbon Re

UK based climate focused AI company, Carbon Re, just closed a £4.2m seed funding round to help reduce inefficiencies in cement production.

UK based climate focused AI company, Carbon Re, just closed a £4.2m seed funding round to help reduce inefficiencies in cement production. Built on Carbon The built environment is one of the largest contributors to carbon equivalent emissions, with buildings accounting for upto 39% of the global emissions. Much of this comes from the energy intensive materials required in their development. Steel…

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Graphene’s atoms create free energy

Graphene’s atoms create free energy

Graphene seems to be popping up all over the place recently, this latest announcement hold potential for long-term green energy for small electronics. In the article below, scientists have discovered a controversial property of graphene that could lead to “limitless” low voltage energy. The discovery centres on graphene’s ability to generate small amounts of electrical power from an atomic…

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7 Articles: What is a digital carbon footprint?

In collaboration with the Open University I am pleased to announce the availability of the 7 articles on digital carbon footprints.

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Blue Earth Summit 2022

A few moments that caught my attention at the Blue Earth Summit 2022. 👇 #besummitt22 I was delighted to have been invited to attend the Blue Earth Summit in Bristol. Here are just a few of the moments that caught my attention along with some fascinating concepts and ideas I discovered during the day.

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Rewarding Recycling

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Sustainability in Packaging

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Can Insurance Change our Climate?

When you think of the global challenges we are facing and the myriad of inspiring technologies that are being invested in, developed, and deployed where do insurance companies fit in? It wasn't something that immediately came to my mind, but looking deeper, there is something particularly exciting about this. Read this article to discover ho carbon insurance could help stimulate the carbon removal market, accelerating progress by 10x, at least.