An hourly dose of rock tunes that're more in your face than the seat in front of you on a RyanAir flight. HELLO MICHAEL O'LEARY!
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How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where reuse is at the core of thinking. One where the Earth Experience is central. Gerry McGovern will talk to designers who are pioneering green digital thinking and methods.
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Ben Schwarz: Is 5G a good thing or not?
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Ben's career spans IT to telecoms and the evolving media landscape. With a foundation in IT at Logica for a decade, he transitioned to being the CTO of a pioneering music start-up at the peak of the internet revolution. His journey continued at Orange for almost another decade, where he played a pivotal role in the convergence of telecoms with the …
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Web design has rarely taken the environment into account. Over the last decade, web pages have become ten times bigger, and up to 80% of the weight of a particular webpage can be waste—content and code that is not required for the page to function. Do web designers and developers simply not care? Vitaly Friedman believes that they do care but that …
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Manuel Vexler: 5G: A symptom of the Growth Death Cult
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Manuel Vexler is the Executive Director at the Actionable Knowledge Foundational Institute (AKFI) and a Cornell Instructor and facilitator. He has a wealth of experience in leading and facilitating discussions on sustainability and digital transformation. Manuel believes that 5G doesn’t have a clear benefit and is rather a reflection of our growth-…
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Steven Gonzalez Monserrate 'Thirsty Data: Data Centers increasing impact on fresh water'
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Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fixing Futures research training group at Goethe University. As a graduate of MIT's History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society program, his dissertation project, "Cloud Ecologies", is an ethnography of data centers and their environmental impacts in the United States, Puerto R…
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Pietro Jarre ‘No such thing as sustainable mining’
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Pietro Jarre has a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He’s a specialist in geotechnical and environmental issues on waste rock deposits, mining infrastructures, landfills and brownfields. Since 2015, his focus is on the environmental and social impact of digital technologies. He’s founder of Sloweb association, something I’d highly recommend ch…
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Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys Nature and communities'
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Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently the National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Environmental Movement-a leading youth-led environment and climate advocacy and campaign group in Ghana. I started by asking Perk to tell me more about how the youth movement works. https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-wa…
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Kaustubh Thapa E- waste : Ultimate Producer Responsibility
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People like Kaustubh Thapa give me hope. Kaustubh is finishing his PhD at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His collaborative research in Nigeria, China and Vietnam incorporates justice, equity, and sustainability for a fairer EU waste trade and a just circular economy transition. I starte…
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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
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Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics. Melvin is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of th…
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John Booth 'Data centers: Data theatre and the tsunami of frivolous data'
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John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award. I started by asking John if he thinks data centers are doing enough to conserve energy, water and materials in this time of crisis. I gave an…
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Pat and Nuala Geoghegan 'Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland'
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Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland Aluminum is a critical material for digital. Since 1970, there has been 559% increase in its mining. A typical smartphone can be 14% aluminum, while a up to 50% of a laptop can be made up of steel and aluminum. Pat and Nuala Geoghegan are farmers from Askeaton, County Limerick. Soon after the Aughini…
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Thea Kleinmagd 'Designing a smartphone that lasts'
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Thea Kleinmagd is a Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone. When you are buying your next smartphone, please consider Fairphone. They make excellent, modular and repairable products that are built to last. I started our chat by asking Thea to describe the potential toxic impacts of some of the over 50 different materials found in a typical…
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Josh Lepawsky 'Pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal'
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Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. He researches waste from the manufacturing of electronics to its end of life. He explores where e-waste accumulates and who it affects. He has a keen interest in “how maintenance and repair might offer lessons for figuring out how to live we…
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Gauthier Roussilhe 'The hidden costs of data centers'
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Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable people I have been lucky to chat with about these issues. He is currently doing a PhD at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) to explore which digital infrastructures and services are compati…
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Andy Farnell 'Perils of e-waste and benefits of being a digital vegan'
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Andy Farnell is a British computer scientist and author specialising in signals, systems and cybersecurity. His popular textbook "Designing Sound" (MIT) and pioneering research and development in audio DSP and synthesis defined the field of Procedural Audio. Consultant to leading technology companies, and visiting professor across Europe, Andy is a…
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Hannah Smith 'The hidden weight of code'
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Hannah is a freelance WordPress developer from Bristol with a background in Computer Science. Before freelance life, amongst other things, she honed her management skills at the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She’s co-founder of Green Tech South West and is on a mission to raise awareness about the environment…
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Sharon Richardson 'Blind belief in data and technology as bad as blind belief in belief.'
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'Earth Experience Design' course with Gerry McGovern Date: February 19 2022 Where: Online Tickets: https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022 About this episode Is technology a good thing? That was my first question I asked Dr Sharon Richardson, who is a senior scientist and lecturer in geocomputation at the University…
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Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems'
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Earth Experience Design - Online training Course with Gerry - Jan 19 2022 https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022 About this episode Some people live their ideas. Katie Singer is one of them. She writes about the energy, extraction, toxic waste and greenhouse gases involved in manufacturing computers, telecom infras…
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Anneli Ohvril 'Let’s talk about digital hygiene'
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If someone looked inside your computer or your Cloud account would they find a tidy, clean, well-maintained place? Or would they find a messy, chaotic dump. Imagine if old, waste content smelled. How smelly would your computer be? Anneli Ohvril is founder and CEO of Let’s Do It World, the international environmental organisation that engages leader…
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Virginie Guerin 'Digital hygiene: a recipe for cleaning up your digital life'
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Hear about the many digital sustainability initiatives that are happening in France from Virginie Guerin, an urban planner, who is co-founder of World CleanUp Day France. Learn about the recipe they used to get organizations and citizens involved in highly successful digital cleanup initiatives. Virginie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vir…
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Tom Greenwood 'Is digital the great accelerator of the climate crisis?'
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Join Gerry McGovern at the Doing Design Festival on June 18 / See http://www.doingdesignfestival.com The Website Carbon Calculator is a real go to tool for me when I want to find out how much CO2 a particular web page is creating. This, and many other great initiatives, comes from Wholegrain Digital, a company founded by Vineeta and Tom Greenwood i…
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Sarah Winters 'How COVID-19 drove panic publishing'
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When COVID-19 hit, many governments reverted to a panic publishing approach, getting as much content up on their websites as quickly as possible. Structure, organization, testing, it all got shoved aside in the rush to publish. Sarah explains how this sort of panic publishing culture can be avoided in the future because panicking serves nobody. Sar…
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Liam Nugent '99.9% of what you do is rubbish'
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When Liam Nugent closed down his digital agency he accounted for all the digital stuff they had created. Each employee was generating about 100 gigabytes of data a year. When they cleaned up all this data so as to give a quality hand-off to their clients, they found that 99.9% of the 8 terabytes of data they had created was useless. Buy the book by…
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Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy'
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Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable. Beth Stensen, their CEO, talks to Gerry McGovern about how Netlife is on a new journey which focuses on the Earth Experience. It’s exciting and challenging times. Digital can often accelerate very bad and wasteful human …
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Nick Evanson 'Big Data growth is not sustainable'
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By 2035, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,000 zettabytes of data produced globally. Based on current storage pricing, 2,000 zettabytes would cost $58 trillion to store. The global economy is currently worth about $80 trillion. The pace and quantity of data production is not even remotely sustainable. One zettabyte—just one zettabyte—w…
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Jono Alderson 'The unseen cost of poor web design'
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The growth in webpage size over the years has been astounding. It is driven by a culture of delivery, a project mindset, and a feeling that the Web is this unlimited space where you can essentially do anything you want without consequences. But good web design is a complex task that many organizations are either unwilling or unable to manage profes…
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Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.'
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This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the worlds best trainers Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think…
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Chris Coyier 'Easy to design, hard to use'
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This episode was brought to you by ThisisDoing.com Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping digital designs. Chris says we need new thinking and new tools that clearly indicate when we are making design decisions that a…
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Erika Hall 'Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience'
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This episode was brought to you by This is Doing - Design & Innovation Online Learning In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we've ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it? https://muledesign.com/speaking/erika-hall Buy Gerry McGovern's new book 'World Wide Waste' Sup…
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Karen Peeters 'Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story'
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We need your support. Show some love by becoming a Premium Member. Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet and what to do about it. What is quality when it comes to web design, web development, web management? How do we know the customer is having a quality experience? How do we know as a web professional that…
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Eric Meyer 'Overcoming complexity’s invisible force'
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Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. Eric Meyer is a passionate advocate of designing for humanity, of leaving no one behind when you create your design, of thinking deeply about how things work for everyone - not …
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Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
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Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I'm chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet. Every time I see him speak, I'm struck by his calming presence, his brilliant mind and …
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Introducing 'World Wide Waste' with Gerry McGovern
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We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team, and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste. How do we design for less waste in digital? How can digital designers, developers and content professionals create a more environmentally friendly digital? One that uses less energy and creates less waste. One where …
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NOT listened to by David Cameron.بقلم Pat Squage
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A night of cover tunes. Listening during the day will cause the sun to disappear for an hour.بقلم Pat Squage
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More rocking than an old woman on a rocking chair on a ship in the middle of a storm whilst eating a rock cake.بقلم Pat Squage
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Another hour of glorious love songs to get you in the mood for a sexy night in. Otherwise known as an hour of bitterness and songs that talk about killing people. Valentines: Squage ROCKS style.بقلم Pat Squage
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More in your face than the seat in front of you on a RyanAir flight.بقلم Pat Squage
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Listened to by Marylin Manson whilst killing people and standing over a fan.بقلم Pat Squage
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An hour of beautiful love songs, to fill your heart with joy and warmth at the sheer love of Valentines Day? F**k that! Squage ROCKS kicks St Valentine in the face.بقلم Pat Squage
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Sissel Anita and Jimbo join Pat for an hour of rock-based madness.بقلم Pat Squage
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Why does this show start off with The Lonely Island? Because we ROCK, that's why.بقلم Pat Squage
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Squage ROCKS - Apparently it IS for girls after all. HELLO LADIES!بقلم Pat Squage
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Squage ROCKS - It's NOT for girls!بقلم Pat Squage
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ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK ROCK. ROCK. (ROCK).بقلم Pat Squage
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Sissel removes the playlist from your face, edits it, then SHOVES IT RIGHT BACK!بقلم Pat Squage
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Jimbo takes the playlist and shoves it up your face!بقلم Pat Squage
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We're back to rock your face more than Dwane Johnson.بقلم Pat Squage
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In the inaugral outing, Sissel is on the playlist and Pat's on the mic. It feels kinda right...بقلم Pat Squage
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