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#AcademicVenting Now have to share this brilliant article - well, have only read the abstract so far, but: count me in! Here’s to #AdministrativeAbolition!
“we argue for administrative abolition, that is, the elimination of all college presidents, provosts, deans and other top level administrators who we argue form a parasitical group”
There is quite an encouraging chart in a recent IEA newsletter on the shift in investment flows across the world energy sector:
"Five years ago, for every $1 invested in fossil fuels, $1 went to clean energy. But today, for every $1 invested in fossil fuels, $1.80 goes to clean energy."
#cleanenergy #climate #renewables #energy #Co2 #climatechange #fossilfuels
This week we launched a brand new product – the Games Industry Sustainability Benchmark report for 2023. It's a detailed analysis of the largest games businesses in the world, their sustainability initiatives and metrics.
🔍 Key Features:
– Scope 1, 2, and 3 disclosures from 30+ major gaming businesses.
– Side-by-side visualizations and rankings based on GHG intensity, revenue intensity, and per-employee metrics.
– In-depth company profiles with ESG data breakdowns, y-o-y emissions changes, announced sustainability initiatives, and TCFD risk disclosures.
– Climate disclosure legislation analysis, timelines to implementation, and new compliance burden predictions for gaming businesses.
That plus a whole lot more!
If you work at a large games business, send the announcement to your leadership team and tell them to get stuck in, see where they stand, and get inspired to make sustainability a priority for the #games industry in 2024.
https://gtg.benabraham.net/the-game-industry-sustainability-benchmark-2023/
I believe having good data about where, why, and how emissions are occurring across the games industry is a necessary first step in enabling effective action to reduce those emissions. You can’t manage what you can’t measure. It is in keeping with that approach that I am super
@aWildThorp yeah so Kara Stone and Cindy Poremba have run a solar powered residency in Canada which I consulted on to help with the design.
https://solarserver.substack.com/p/power-troubles-and-power-pleasure
Kara's Solar Server (which is down currently, low power most likely) is going to host her own game made with these principles.
http://www.solarserver.games
You can also check out Low Tech magazine's solar powered website and the suggestions they have. (though its on 9% battery right now too lol)
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com
I've also written a lot on my newsletter about Microsoft's energy efficient design best-practice for games (though this is more for the AAA space than indie game jammers).
https://gtg.benabraham.net/what-does-design-for-energy-efficient-games-look-like/
Also you can check out the IGDA Climate SIG which is running some mini-jams on climate games soon.
https://www.igdaclimatesig.org
Most of the IGDA stuff happens in the SIG discord.
Last week, after putting up with years of poor performance by my main work computer, I decided to do something about it.
But instead of buying a new one, I decided to tackle the pretty tough job of digging into the very, very difficult-to-repair and upgrade iMac.
I learnt a lot about what is involved and what I think Apple – the richest company on the planet – needs to fix about its computers.
That, plus the amount of CO2 I'm saving by not turning a device simply into #ewaste.
https://gtg.benabraham.net/what-i-learned-about-repair-by-disassembling-my-imac/
#sustainability #sustainable #computers #upgrade #righttorepair #Apple #iMac #recycling #hardware #teardown
While working on the Die Gute Fabrik report last month, I needed to open some very large spreadsheets. Both the US EEIO model of spend-data emissions factors and the European EXIOBASE model have huge datasets – one single EXIOBASE sheet can be over 700 MB and a whole dataset can be
Pauline von Hellermann
John Quiggin
NetBlocks
@daraghhayes
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