From Moore's Law to the Carbon Law

Pargman, Daniel; Biørn-Hansen, Aksel; Eriksson, Elina; Laaksolahti, Jarmo; Robèrt, Markus

doi:10.1145/3401335.3401825

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“…Further, putting aside Smallholder Farms, the projects do not explicate how socio-technical interventions or possible solutions contribute broadly to transitioning to a sustainable future. In contrast, by building from the Paris Agreement, the academic flying project [51] does explicate a targeted framing for making broad change. These three openings for project framing-time, scale, and transition discourse-would seem to merit inquiry and discussion within the limits community.…”

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“…A final illustrative example is the work on CO 2 emissions and academic flying [51], a demonstration of the viability of immediate practical work for institutional adaptation. The essential idea is to model an institution's CO 2 expenditures, for prioritizing options for institutional adaptation.…”

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“…The Food Tracking [42] project answers this question, by showing a way to flexibly represent shifts in perspective, from farms and farmers to global supply chains, to planetary CO 2 emissions. Similarly, the Academic Flying project represents the planet, by the Paris Agreement, and moves down through nation states to institutions to particular practices that produce CO 2 , illustrating a representational approach that seems widely applicable [51].…”

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Transition Discourse, Food, and Computing within Limits

Hendry¹

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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The limits workshop series is a transition system, which shapes the work of activists, educators, and researchers. It does so, in part, by the development of language and tools and by catalyzing conversations about reality and possible futures. Given this proposition and drawing on ontologically oriented analysis and design, I explore the transition discourse of eight limits' papers, which consider aspects of food. The papers represent competing views of the future of place and planet. Building on this review, I discuss worldviews and transitions, transitions and time, and I explore how formative and instrumental approaches in computing research can contribute to institutional and cultural adaptation.

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Transition Discourse, Food, and Computing within Limits

Hendry¹

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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“…KTH Royal Institute of Technology is an example of a knowledge-intensive organisation and a research-intensive university that aims to be a leading technical university in the area of sustainable development [34]. KTH is furthermore one of the 37 Swedish Higher Education Institutions that, as a signatory of The Climate Framework for Higher Education Institutions [35], has pledged to "by 2030 [...] have implemented measures in order to be in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5 • C target".…”

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Exploring the Problem Space of CO2 Emission Reductions from Academic Flying

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CO2 emissions from aviation have been predicted to increase over the coming decades. Within the academic world, flying is often perceived to be a necessary prerequisite to being a successful researcher. Many Swedish universities have ambitious climate goals, but are simultaneously among the top emitters in the public sector. Reaching stated climate goals could feasibly be met through a combination of measures, including decreased flying. One way to address the challenge is to support behavioural interventions with the help of interactive visualizations of CO2 emissions from flying. Those few examples that exist in the research literature are generally directed towards management and are less applicable to universities, given the large autonomy researchers enjoy and their discretionary control of research project funds. This paper uses a design-oriented research approach to present an analysis of the problem space at the intersection of interactive visualizations using air travel data to reduce CO2 emissions from business air travel at our own university, KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Through a number of design experiments, evaluations and investigations, we have unearthed needs, challenges and opportunities for the creation of visualization tools to support more sustainable travel practices at universities and in other knowledge-intensive organisations.

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“…Aspirations around energy justice, the digital divide and cultural independence within sociotechnical systems in places like the Global South may well be served by harnessing solar energy to net-positive civic digital infrastructure on decentralized open platforms. Along with a total lifecycle approach to the materiality and durability of computing, the energy autarky of information systems design supports natural limits on service, creates resilience, and these transitional design criteria address the definition of computing within limits as "design and development of computing systems in the abundant present for use in a future of limits or scarcity" [40]. Put simply, with reasonable maintenance and care, energy autarkic inforrmation systems are guaranteed a future abundance of energy to ensure their function.…”

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Design Aspirations for Energy Autarkic Information Systems in a Future with Limits

Sutherland

2021

LIMITS Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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An information system is energy autarkic if its operation is integrally sustained by an ambient energy source, typically renewable, for long periods of time. An energy autarkic system's sustainability increases if the environmental cost for its design, material, construction, repair and recycling is minimal, the social value of its creation, use and disposal is widely justifiable over time and diverse contexts, and it has further potential as a usermodified, upcycled, or salvage system. In this essay I discuss a number of past solar-powered information system designs, comparing them with contemporary solar autarkic prototypes, reflecting on their actors, their histories and their socialtechnical trajectories. I conclude by proposing a set of aspirational design characteristics for sustainable autarkic computing systems, in as much as they represent a class of transitional computing aligned to a future with limits.

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From Moore's Law to the Carbon Law

Cited by 12 publications

References 28 publications

Transition Discourse, Food, and Computing within Limits

Transition Discourse, Food, and Computing within Limits

Exploring the Problem Space of CO2 Emission Reductions from Academic Flying

Design Aspirations for Energy Autarkic Information Systems in a Future with Limits

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