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If you're a coder, perhaps its a good idea to check out this tool by Claude, developed by Gaëtan Wittebolle shows your carbon footprint and gives tips on how to reduce your code's emissions 👇
Reducing Energy Consumption With the Claude Carbon Tool (Interview)
With his free tool, Claude Carbon, French developer Gaëtan Wittebolle makes the carbon footprint of vibe coding visible and shares tips to help developers reduce their code's emissions.
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Re-reading this gem of an article, where we interviewed @ketanjoshi.co about the grossly unreported harm of AI on our planet ⬇️
New Report: “AI That Helps the Climate Is Very Different From AI That Consumes a Lot of Energy”
74 percent of claims that AI benefits the climate are unfounded, as per a new report, which also highlights the harm of conflating GenAI with smaller models.
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A new AI-powered model developed by @ethz.ch, @epfl-ai-center.bsky.social, @conservation.cam.ac.uk and MeteoSwiss can forecast extreme weather events with more precision than existing methods. We spoke to some of the team working on the Earth System Foundational Model 👇
From Heatwaves to Hailstorms: The ESFM AI Model Skillfully Predicts Extreme Weather
Extreme heat hit Europe this summer. Can the AI-powered ESFM weather prediction model help us see future heatwaves coming?
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August 2026 was the warmest August on record in the the Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5 dataset, at 1.65C above preindustrial levels. This beat the prior record set in August 2024 by a fairly wide margin (~0.14C).
Apertus is the largest fully open language model available today, but do the current limitations mean that we should throw the baby out with the Swiss lakewater? And what can the story of smaller AI models tell us about the complexity of labelling AI as “good” or “bad”? 👇
Apertus Trains on Clean Swiss Hydropower. So Why Did It Score Badly on Sustainability?
Swiss research consortium Apertus released a fully open large language model trained on renewable energy and built to comply with the EU AI Act. Here's why it matters for a more sustainable, sovereign approach to AI.
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From a living room to a movement 🏃 This is how organisations like the AI Collective aim is to give space for people to discuss what AI means for their jobs, their communities, even on their continents—without waiting for regulators or corporations to fill in the blanks. 👇
AI Meetups Are Giving Communities a Voice—Now Comes the Hard Part
Artificial intelligence has swept through most of the world, leaving smaller voices dwarfed by the roar of Big Tech. Can community AI meetups help to redress the imbalance?
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El Niños are stronger now than at any point in the last 1,000 years - scientists say climate change is to blame www.newscientist.com/article/2586...
Galapagos corals suggest climate change drives stronger El Niños | New Scientist
Coral records from the Galapagos Islands indicate El Niños have been gathering strength over the past 40 years, in line with rising global temperatures
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At RESET, we're big fans of decentralised social networks—less content manipulation, hosted on green servers, data privacy. But making the switch can be complicated. ⬇️That’s exactly why we wrote this article: to help you take those first steps without getting lost.
A Better Social Media: How to Successfully Switch To Decentralised Social Networks
Forget X and Instagram: decentralised social networks are better! Here, we show you how to switch to switch to Mastodon, Pixelfeld and co.
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Big Tech keeps showing us where its priorities lie — fossil power, closed data, and profit over people. EU-Alternatives work differently. In this article sponsored by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social we share our recommendations on EU alternatives you can start using today ⬇️
EU Alternatives to Big Tech: Why Local is the Future
Big Tech doesn't always mean good tech. With so many brilliant EU alternatives to the major platforms, why not pick a safer, fairier, local version?
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Great article by @cal-innes.bsky.social talking about the contradictions and different arguments on why we should avoid using AI 👇
Should we worry about the environmental impact of our own use of generative AI?
On greenwashing, whataboutism, and the mechanisms behind AI infrastructure buildout
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do the current limitations of Apertus mean that we should throw the baby out with the clean, Swiss lakewater? And what can the story of smaller AI models tell us about the complexity of labelling AI as “good” or “bad”? Find out 👇
Apertus Trains on Clean Swiss Hydropower. So Why Did It Score Badly on Sustainability?
Swiss research consortium Apertus released a fully open large language model trained on renewable energy and built to comply with the EU AI Act. Here's why it matters for a more sustainable, sovereign...
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Every year, Google handles five trillion searches, a clear indicator of its search engine monopoly, along with the environmental costs of Big Tech search engines. So we asked: what would it take to get free, unbiased search? Here's what we found out 👇
Fighting the Search Monopoly With an Open Source Index: An Interview With Michael Granitzer From OpenWebSearch
Free, unbiased access to internet search: that's the vision of the OpenWebSearch project. Their open search index is making it a reality.
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"The sooner we can use AI to identify problems such as wildfires or drought in forests, the sooner we can respond." -Stephen Wehner, managing director @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social Find out how they are solving these problems by building their own Gen AI platform 👇
An AI that Says Less? aim2balance.ai Is a New Approach to Generative AI
aim2balance.ai is a new sustainable AI service that's secure in terms of data protection and takes a holistic approach to ensuring environmental and social sustainability. Managing Director Stephen Wehner talked us through it.
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This week wraps up #GreenDigitalFutures, we are ending on why #localisthefuture for software & social media. It's time to choose decentralised over centralised, open over closed source, community over consumer-driven. Follow us for articles that will help you go greener, digitally 🌱💻
Is #FollowFriday a thing on @bsky.app? If not, we are going to take the initiative by sharing some organizations we 💚 @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social @heigit.org @umeaplantsciencecentre.se @cleancitiescampaign.org @fraunhoferhhi.bsky.social Go show them some 💚 too!
What if the AI platform you use wasn't designed to trick you into using it more than you need to? Welcome: Aim2Balance.ai, Gen AI that is made with a holistic, environmental and social approach to tech by the same people behind @bergwaldprojekt.bsky.social Learn how it is made and how to use it 👇
An AI that Says Less? aim2balance.ai Is a New Approach to Generative AI
aim2balance.ai is a new sustainable AI service that's secure in terms of data protection and takes a holistic approach to ensuring environmental and social sustainability. Managing Director Stephen We...
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We wrote about the first large-scale model built to meet the transparency, data-traceability & copyright requirements of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act. But is Apertus a serious alternative to ChatGPT, or something else entirely? We took a 👀 at some of the claims & misconceptions 👇
Apertus: Can Europe's First Open, Renewable-Powered LLM Change How We Build AI?
Swiss research consortium Apertus released a fully open large language model trained on renewable energy and built to comply with the EU AI Act. Here's why it matters for a more sustainable, sovereign...
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Embracing a greener lifestyle can go beyond personal tech use. Just think about how much we use tech for work 🤔 To finish off our green lifestyle week, we are posting this ACT NOW article on how you can adapt your #office life for the greener good!
The Modern Work Toolkit: How to Work Sustainably in the Office and Remotely
Modern working is more digital than ever – and increasing our carbon footprint. RESET presents sustainable alternatives for digital working.
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To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire
Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history | New Scientist
To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire
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New article on road safety for city #cyclists:
BikeBox for Road Safety: Project Relies on Real-Time Data from Bicycles
Cyclists can often name the dangerous spots in their town in their sleep – but do they simply feel unsafe there, or are they genuinely at risk? BikeBox project aims to collect data on precisely this issue.
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At RESET, we like to find possible solutions for current problems in the digital world. Sometimes solutions can start with making small changes to our everyday lives. This article, written with support of @umweltstiftung.bsky.social, is one of our ACT NOW articles ⬇️
Reduce Data Consumption, Boost Climate Protection: How Sustainable Streaming Works
The films, series and music we stream account for the lion's share of digital emissions—so we're sharing our tips for sustainable streaming.
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⛓️💥Is it time to break free from big tech monopolies? We think so, and so does Andy Davis from Wholegrain Digital, who told us just how you can finally leave tech giants like Google, and take back control and autonomy of your online activities and data.
Interview: How to Break Free From Google’s Browser Monopoly
Reading on Google Chrome? This interview might make you change your browser. Here's how sustainable alternatives can fight Google's monopoly.
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New RESET newsletter is up! Read it to find out 👇 🔮 What will the climate of my city be like in 60 years? 🗺️ Finding shade with this route-finding application 🌾 How AI is supporting Nepal’s farmers 🌳 We should look at forests to improve our cities
What's the weather in your city going to look like in 60 years?
Probably hot. But these digital tools could assist us in keeping safe in the face of increasingly extreme weather events.
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Lets talk about #AI, It’s embedded into pretty much all software, apps and everywhere else we don’t need it. Luckily there’s open-source software that allows us to finally ‘opt-out’ of AI features for good. Ready to get started? First step, read this article 👇
How To Avoid AI Features: Open-Source Software Lets You Escape the ‘Walled Garden'
Carbon-hungry AI is everywhere. We explain how to avoid AI features and why open-source software and decentralised networks can help.
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But the #coal consumption must decrease.
Blair Palese@blairpalese.bsky.social · last mo.Today's great news..." #Solar is poised to overtake #coal as China’s largest source of installed power capacity this year, as Beijing steps up its green transition with a renewed emphasis on efficiency, quality and orderly growth over sheer scale." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
Removing #AI features, swapping #bigtech for alternatives and reducing your overall #dataconsumption can make a big difference when it comes to #digitalsustainability. Keep an eye on this page for RESET articles on how you can make small adjustments to your tech use. @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
