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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 29/09/2026
In this economy of budget cuts, one has no choice but to become creative 👇 en.reset.org/onlymarms-co...
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OnlyMarms: Combining OnlyFans and a cryptocoin to save marmots
To save seven decades of unique marmot and environmental research from federal funding cuts, these ecologists turned to a raunchy subscription platform and a crypto. The result was OnlyMarms.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 24/09/2026
The power of wind in the fight against climate change ⬇️
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A Fitness Tracker for Wind Turbines: How Aerosense Reduces Material Waste in Wind Turbine Design
Aerosense helps manufacturers optimise wind turbine design by sharing real-time data, minimising material waste.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 23/09/2026
If you buy a smartphone in 2026, they will most likely contain lithium-ion batteries. Lithium mining comes with a wide range of environmental consequences. Scientists have therefore been researching an interesting alternative since the 1970s: sodium-ion batteries. 👇
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Electric Cars Powered by Salt Instead of Lithium? Sodium-Ion Batteries May Be Close to Market Readiness
Sodium-ion batteries are on the verge of market readiness, as per the Fraunhofer Institute. What does this mean for the mobility transition?
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 21/09/2026
Could we use mushrooms to eat our trash?
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Trash-Eating Mushrooms Are Being Deployed to Eat Demolition Debris
Just as fungi can contribute to the construction of a building, it can also play a part in breaking down demolition debris.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 18/09/2026
An oldie, but still relevant article from the RESET archives Mushrooms are replacing leather in eco-friendly fashion ⬇️
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Fungi Power: The Mushrooms Replacing Leather in Eco-Friendly Fashion
Mushrooms can be used for so much more than just for eating. The versatile fungi are also becoming increasingly popular in the fashion industry - as an eco-friendly and socially-responsible alternative to leather.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 17/09/2026
🍄Would you live in a mushroom house? 👇
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Will Buildings in the Future Be Built From Mushrooms?
Mycelium, the root structure of fungi, has emerged as a sustainable construction material for bricks and cladding.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 16/09/2026
Staying in a #Fungi theme this week, we wrote about biodegradable fungal batteries 👇
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Could Fungal Batteries be the Power Source of the Future?
Researchers from Empa have developed the fungal battery, a completely biodegradable battery created with 3D printing techniques.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 16/09/2026
An international research team has investigated the global scale of these vast underground networks for the first time and the result is an incredible digital map of the world’s fungal networks. We spoke to @spun.earth about this interactive unique system 👇
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SPUN's Digital Map Reveals the Scale of Underground Fungal Networks for the First Time
Beneath our feet, amongst all the trees and forest paths, lies vast fungal networks. Scientists have mapped the extent of these global connections for the first time – thereby illustrating just how im...
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 15/09/2026
From 🌡️ to ⛈️ This esfm AI model can predict extreme weather and potentially save lives 👇
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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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Clean Energy Wire | CLEW @cleanenergywire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Europe launches two climate observation satellites
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Europe launches two climate observation satellites
The European Space Agency has put two satellites into orbit to take a closer look at the impact of climate change. One of them will focus particularly on plant life.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 11/09/2026
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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 10/09/2026
Re-reading this gem of an article, where we interviewed @ketanjoshi.co about the grossly unreported harm of AI on our planet ⬇️
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 10/09/2026
🐋 Could we use #AI to protect life in our oceans? 👇
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Open-Source AI OrcaHello Listens to Whales to Protect Them Better
If we know where whales are, we can take targeted protective measures, such as diverting ships and reducing sources of noise. OrcaHello helps to track the animals.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 09/09/2026
Would you join an #AImeetup?
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 08/09/2026
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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 03/09/2026
Up-cycling is more fun together ⬇️
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“Bringing Together Neighbourhoods”: make-a-thek Forms Communities by Teaching Upcycling Skills
Participants in make-a-thek workshops learn how to repair old clothes instead of throwing them away, promoting a more circular society.
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 02/09/2026
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).
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 02/09/2026
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”? 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 01/09/2026
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. 👇
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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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Madeleine Cuff @tinymaddie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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...
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 27/08/2026
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.
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 26/08/2026
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 ⬇️
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 26/08/2026
Great article by @cal-innes.bsky.social talking about the contradictions and different arguments on why we should avoid using AI 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 26/08/2026
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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 25/08/2026
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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 24/08/2026
"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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 24/08/2026
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 🌱💻
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 21/08/2026
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!
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 19/08/2026
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 👇
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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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Boycott Meta @boycottmeta.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 11/08/2026
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 👇
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 06/08/2026
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!
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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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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 06/08/2026
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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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 06/08/2026
New article on road safety for city #cyclists:
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 05/08/2026
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 ⬇️
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 05/08/2026
⛓️‍💥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.
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 05/08/2026
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
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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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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 04/08/2026
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 👇
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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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Stacy VanDeveer @stacydvandeveer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
But the #coal consumption must decrease.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 03/08/2026
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
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 31/07/2026
We recently spoke with Geraldine de Bastion, Founder of the #GlobalInnovationGathering about their work that aims to facilitate a more circular society by educating people in #upcycling, clothing repair and textile skills 👇
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“Bringing Together Neighbourhoods”: make-a-thek Forms Communities by Teaching Upcycling Skills
Participants in make-a-thek workshops learn how to repair old clothes instead of throwing them away, promoting a more circular society.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 30/07/2026
Let’s be real, the current forecast look bleak: our information technology could account for around 50% of global electricity consumption over the next 10 to 20 years. One possible solution? ➡️ Green coding. We wrote about how it works, and how you can work with it👇
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Energy-Efficient Software and Web-Friendly Websites: How Green Coding Works
If the internet were a country in its own right, it would rank sixth in the global CO₂ emissions rankings. Under the banner of ‘Green Coding’, we’ve put together some ways you use the internet more resource efficiently.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 30/07/2026
If you haven’t read into this yet, this is your sign 🪧 to start understanding how digital clouds work, and why its important to consider switching to open source cloud storage like @nextcloud.bsky.social 🙌☁️⬇️ Supported by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
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Green Cloud Without Big Data: How to Use Nextcloud & Why We Love It
Looking for a green and data-secure cloud? We spoke to Andreas Steinhauser from infra.run about how to get started with open-source provider Nextcloud.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 29/07/2026
🤔What if the future of tech could be inspired by the past? We wrote about ‘Permacomputing’: taking the concept of permaculture (self-sufficient, energy-efficient and inherently wasteless) and applying it to computing. Here’s what we found out 👇
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Permacomputing – How the Concept of Permaculture Is Being Adapted to the Digital World
The perpetual drive to create bigger, stronger, faster is destroying our planet. It's time we took a hard look at permacomputing principles.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 29/07/2026
#Videostreaming accounts for the largest share of global internet #datatraffic at 60-70%. So, with the growing carbon footprint of digitalisation, it’s time to put the topic of “sustainable streaming” back on the agenda! ⬇️📺‼ Sponsored by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
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Green Streaming? We Need to Talk About Netflix, Prime and Co.
Even if AI is considered the new climate offender, streaming has not been replaced. We took a look at the high CO2 emissions from streaming, where companies stand and what users can do.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 28/07/2026
How can we decide which #sustainable services actually shape a greener future? Our articles could be the answer. We only report on innovations that are make the #tech industry greener and fairer for everyone 👇 Supported by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
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Green IT: Transforming Hardware to Make It More Sustainable
Hardware has a significant negative carbon footprint. Many computer manufacturers therefore use recycled materials in the production of their notebooks, PCs and tablets. But is green IT really that simple? We summarise our findings after numerous interviews and experiences.
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Ecologic Institute @ecologic.eu · 28/07/2026
How does citizen science work in practice? 🌍 Find out in @reset.org new feature on our project "Plastic Pirates – Go Europe!" Students collect data on plastic pollution, contributing directly to scientific research 👇
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 28/07/2026
Could refurbishment be the answer to building #sustainable data centres? We spoke to Techbuyer who has made it its mission to #refurbish server #hardware, and this is how they plan to do it ⬇️ Supported by @umweltstiftung.bsky.social
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Greener Data Centres Thanks to Refurbishment? We Asked Techbuyer
The demand for computing capacity is increasing worldwide whilst reports of the environmental impact of data centres grow. Techbuyer aims to counter this with refurbished servers.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 27/07/2026
When we speak about "using #AI for good" this is what we mean👇
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Open-Source AI OrcaHello Listens to Whales to Protect Them Better
If we know where whales are, we can take targeted protective measures, such as diverting ships and reducing sources of noise. OrcaHello helps to track the animals.
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RESET - Digital for Good🌎♻️☀️ @reset.org · 27/07/2026
As part of our @DBU sponsored Green Digital Futures project, we’ve selected RESET articles on: 💻 Green IT, 👩‍💻 Software & 🌿 Coding that will help you understand, as well as be able to navigate the digital world a little more sustainably. We’ll be posting on Bsky this week 👀 stay tuned!
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