Inspired by Matt Webb’s recent blogging streak, and his liberating rules around letting go of being right, or interesting, or too serious about it all, I’m publishing my rough notes and ideas from the UK IGF, which happened virtually this week. Myles Allen, a leading…
This workshop is an initiative from Mozilla’s Environmental Champions in Mozilla’s Sustainability Program and will be facilitated by Michelle Thorne and Fieke Jansen. The world will cross the 1.5 degree warming threshold in 2024, quicker than previously estimated, forecasts the UN World Meteorological Organization. We…
With the outbreak of the pandemic, we turn ever more to the internet to socialize, to work, to inform, to buy, to entertain, to heal, to escape and to organize. The MIT Technology Review reports a surge in internet usage since January 2020. Even before…
In the past year, when talking about the internet’s emissions, it has been hard to pinpoint what part of the internet emits what amount of greenhouse gases. We have big general numbers, like the internet accounting for 2% of global emissions, and then very specific…
Today, from our locked down homes we can fire up a livestream and celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. It’ll be a couch-parade of entertainers and activists dialing in performances and speeches. During Earth Day Live, we will acknowledge the Matryoshka stacking doll crises…