Part of the Sustainability Learning Suites, the video explores life cycle assessment methods as a tool in the process of product design. It analyzes three methods:
Paper written in 2020 by Mauro Bologna and Gerardo Aquino that links the sustainability of the current world population growth and the parallel deforestation process. Based on the current resource consumption rates and best estimate of technological rate growth the study shows that we have very low probability, less than 10% in most optimistic estimate, to survive without facing a catastrophic collapse.
Complete article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-63657-6
Article written in 2018 by Hanna Pihkola, Mikko Hongisto, Olli Apilo and Mika Lasanen centered on the topic: mobile data consumption. The paper analyzes actual and future trends in energy consumption of mobile data transfer and networks in Finland. Energy usage is examined from a life cycle perspective.
Access to the paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326470455_Evaluating_the_Energy_Consumption_of_Mobile_Data_Transfer-From_Technology_Development_to_Consumer_Behaviour_and_Life_Cycle_Thinking
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.
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:
