Where will the mobiles and computers that we no longer want end up?

Original title: "On van a parar els mòbils i ordinadors que ja no volem?"

Podcast in Catalan that explores the environmental and public health situation in Ghana related to the uncontrolled deposit of electronic waste. It has real testimonies that tell the vision of the country before these disposals and now.

Access to the podcast: https://www.ccma.cat/catradio/solidaris/on-van-a-parar-els-mobils-i-ordinadors-que-ja-no-volem/noticia/3165009/

Is the Death Star sustainable?

Video made by the TIC UPC Sustainability Volunteering that explores whether the death star from star wars could be made sustainably. It uses a sustainability matrix to verify it.

Resource Abundance by Design | William McDonough at World Economic Forum

Recording of the conference gived by William McDonough at World Economic Forum in September 2014. It is about resource abundance by design and how to incorporate sustainability in order to design reducing the environmental impact of products and companies.

The electronic tragedy

"The electronic tragedy" is a documentary that reveals how, every year, developed countries produce up to 50 million tons of electronic waste: computers, televisions, mobile phones, household appliances. About 75% of this waste disappears from the official recycling circuits and a good part of it is illegally exported to dumps in the Third World. It is a world trade fueled by greed and corruption.

The Story of Stuff

The history of "The Story of Stuff project" started with a documentary published in 2007 regarding the current "consumption-crazed culture" called "The Story of Stuff". Nowadays, the project carries out different activities such as the creation of videos, the organization of information campaigns on specific topics, questionnaires, among others, in order to create a positive impact on its online community through its website: https://www.storyofstuff.org/

The first documentary "The Story of Stuff" can be watched on YouTube:

IEEE - Sustainable ICT - Standards

The Standards of the IEEE Iniciative is a part of the iniciative that can be found in its online portal. The creation of the standards started in 2015 and considering it's a neutral and fast-moving initiative, the objective was to generate standards to achieve real and concrete environmental impacts through ICT.

In 2016, 9 PARs (Project Authorization Requests) were created and then worked in Work Groups (WG) to create the 9 standards. The 9 PARs are:

• PAR 1: Standard for a method for calculating anticipated emissions caused by virtual machine migration and placement
• PAR 2: Standard for a method to calculate near real-time emissions of information and communication technology infrastructure
• PAR 3: Standard for computation of energy efficiency upper bound for apparatus processing communication signal waveforms
• PAR 4: Recommended practice for developing energy efficient power-proportional digital architectures
• PAR 5: Standard for Energy Efficient Dynamic Line Rate Transmission System
• PAR 6: Standard for a Functional Architecture of Distributed Energy Efficient Big Data Processing
• PAR 7: Standard for Services Provided by the Energy-efficient Orchestration and Management of Virtualized Distributed Data Centers Interconnected by a Virtualized Network
• PAR 8: Standard for a Mechanism for Energy Efficient Virtual Machine Placement
• PAR 9: An Architectural Framework for Energy Efficient Content Distribution

The latest publication in the website shows new standard for electricity emissions calculation has been developed: 

More information: https://sustainableict.ieee.org/standards