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Eight ways to reduce your digital carbon footprint
Description: Whether it’s from doing things like burning fossil fuels through driving, cranking up the furnace or grilling a steak, we are all responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, Computer and information sciences
Author: Whether it’s from doing things like burning fossil fuels through driving, cranking up the furnace or grilling a steak, we are all responsible for releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which is called our carbon footprint. When we collectively produce more carbon than the planet can absorb, the extra CO2 contributes to climate change.
Time to read: 15 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
CLICKING CLEAN: WHO IS WINNING THE RACE TO BUILD A GREEN INTERNET?
Description: In light of the sector’s pivotal role, Greenpeace began benchmarking the energy performance of the IT sector in 2009, challenging those companies who are the largest global architects …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, Computer and information sciences
Author: Cook, G.
Time to read: 45 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
Digital Rebound – Why Digitalization Will Not Redeem Us Our Environmental Sins
Description: “Digitalization as a technological phenomenon of the 21st century has the power to redeem most environmental sins of our 20th century technology. This seems to be a popular …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, Computer and information sciences
Author: Coroamă, V. C. & Mattern, F.
Time to read: 60 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
Energy audit handbook
Description: This comprehensive Energy Audit Handbook as a step-by-step guide to energy auditing. It will benefit all organisations considering or carrying out an energy audit; regardless of sector, size …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Systems engineering
Author:
Time to read: 192 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
ResourceSmart Schools. Energy audit tool.
Description: The manual introduces to energy consumption at schools, supports conducting a student-led energy audit in school building. It provides activities and resources for recording information on energy use, …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Systems engineering
Author:
Time to read: 29 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
Smart home and appliances: State of the Art
Description: This report aims to give an overview of the whole smart home ecosystems with a focus on the energy implications that incur from it. Throughout the report a …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Systems engineering
Author: Serrenho, T., Bertoldi, P.
Time to read: 135 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
Greening the youth sector. Sustainability checklist.
Description: The sustainability checklist has been developed to serve as a set of guidelines for the youth sector. It is based on a desk review of existing literature, guidelines, …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Earth and related environmental sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Environmental engineering
Author: Tumėnaitė N.
Time to read: 111 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy
DigComp competence: 1.2 Evaluating data, information and digital content
A whole-school approach to learning for environmental sustainability
Description: This paper addresses the whole-school approach to sustainability by summarizing the latest research and leading experiences with the objective of informing policy development and related activities. It offers …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Earth and related environmental sciences, Environmental engineering
Author:
Time to read: 69 min
Date Added: 09-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 2. Communication and collaboration
DigComp competence: 2.4 Collaborating through digital technologies
Study – Environmental footprint of the digital world
Description: The study focuses on quantification of the global environmental footprint and its evolution between 2010 and 2025. Proposes a hierarchy of the impact sources and recommendations for minimizing …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Earth and related environmental sciences
Author: Bordage F.
Time to read: 54 min
Date Added: 08-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy
DigComp competence: 1.2 Evaluating data, information and digital content
LEAN ICT – Towards Digital Sobriety
Description: Report of the working group for the think tank the Shift Project, which reflects on the possibilities for generating synergy between digital and energy transition. It aims at …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, 5. Social science, Computer and information sciences, Earth and related environmental sciences
Author:
Time to read: 250 min
Date Added: 08-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy
DigComp competence: 1.2 Evaluating data, information and digital content
The role of IT in energy systems: the digital revolution as part of the problem or part of the solution
Description: The role of IT in energy systems: the digital revolution as part of the problem or part of the solutionSubject Area: 1. Natural sciences, Computer and information sciences
Author: Kupzog F., King R., Stefan M.
Time to read: 45 min
Date Added: 08-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 5. Problem solving
DigComp competence: 5.2 Identifying needs and technological responses
The environmental footprint of the digital world
Description: This study focuses on the quantification of the global digital environmental footprint and its evolution between 2010 and 2025. After an introduction on the digital world and its …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, Computer and information sciences, Earth and related environmental sciences
Author: Bordage F., Abrikh F., Antoine A.
Time to read: 90 min
Date Added: 07-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 4. Safety
DigComp competence: 4.4 Protecting the environment
Green Algorithms: Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Computation
Description: A methodological framework to estimate the carbon footprint of any computational task in a standardized and reliable way is presented and metrics to contextualize GHG emissions are definedSubject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, Physical sciences
Author: Lannelongue, L., Grealey, J., and Inouye, M.
Time to read: 150 min
Date Added: 06-04-2022
DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy
DigComp competence: 1.3 Managing data, information and digital content
2021 Best Practice Guidelines for the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency
Description: This document is a companion to the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency and provides the full list of identified Best Practices for data centre …Subject Area: 1. Natural sciences, 2. Engineering and technology, Computer and information sciences, Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Author: Acton M., Bertoldi P., Booth J
Time to read: 90 min
Date Added: 01-03-2022
DigComp competence area: 1. Information and data literacy
DigComp competence: 1.3 Managing data, information and digital content