Some of what I have been reading and where I have been wandering on the web since my last Weeds or Green Manure.
This blog post links to the following UN SDGs 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17.
This blog post also addresses the planetary boundaries that Ireland pushes beyond using the Doughnut Economics framework; CO2 Emissions, Phosphorus, Nitrogen, Ecological Footprint, Material Footprint, Land Use Change.
Project Ireland 2040 with interactive GIS map.
I attended Re-Peat From Brigid to Bogbodies: The language of peat in the Irish landscape. For World Wetlands Day 2021 (2nd Feb), with RE-PEAT and Wetfutures as we zoom into the boggy Irish landscape!
Deirdre Lane – Goddess Brigid and her weaving of the wetland landscape, brilliant story telling!
Ben Gearey & Rosie Everett – On Heaney’s Hauntings: Archaeology, Poetry and the ‘Gendered Bog’
Kieran Cotter & Frankie Turk – representatives of RE-PEAT, discussing youth and the changing perspective on bogs
Ethics Owners A New Model of Organizational Responsibility in Data-Driven Technology Companies. Data & Society researchers Emanuel Moss and Jacob Metcalf assert that understanding the work of ethics owners—and the tensions they face—is key to the future governance and regulation of tech companies, and the increasingly powerful technologies they design.
Warm data, this has been in my sphere of for a while glad to be finally getting to spend time with Nora Bateson. I’d an excellent conversation with Audrey Lobo-Pulo, owner of Phoensight a ‘data-focused’ consultancy. It uses a multi-disciplinary approach and the latest data science solutions to create bespoke products and services – with a commitment to using open source technologies and providing insight that increases the value of your business.
A systems approach for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals with Fritjof Capra.
The P2P Foundation is an international organization focused on studying, researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices in a very broad sense. This wiki is our knowledge commons. Our motto is “Together we know everything, together we have everything“, i.e. pooling our resources through commons, creates prosperity for all. We document thousands of initiatives going in that direction on order to create “Hope with evidence“.
The central question we address is the following:
“How can we enable and encourage the formation of Global Cooperative Networks within the existing Global Adversarial Network? How could these bubbles form, grow, merge and eventually shift the whole civilisation towards a more cooperative generative process.”
John Ringland
Climate
Ireland, Minister Ryan appoints Marie Donnelly as Chair and Professor Peter Thorne as member of Climate Change Advisory Council, Gov.ie press release.
#STOPCETA Tortoise shack podcast with Independent Senator, Alice-Mary Higgins discuss a comprehensive explanation of the issues and problems with the CETA deal. She expertly breaks down the reasons we should simply press pause now and avoid tying ourselves into the type of deal other countries are spending years trying to get out of.
Stop Climate Chaos has shared that GEAI the Good Energies Alliance Ireland has developed a local carbon mapping model that allows places to host climate dialogues looking at local data. SCC Wexford has nicknamed it the Letrim-model. Looking forward to exploring it with some Wexford climate realists.
Earthshot Labs, volunteered some time last weekend and worked on the Pitch Deck. Earthshot Labs is an open-source community, public benefit technology company, and regenerative asset manager using data science for planetary-scale climate mitigation.
Youth Mayors Field Guide – shared in the Doughnut Economics Global Community Leaders group from an education perspective for young people. An excellent tool for beginning and learning to get into the doughnut for any age group.
SME Climate Hub is a pioneering global initiative that aims to create a tipping point for mainstreaming climate action and building business resilience.
SMEs represent 90% of business globally, employing 2 billion people. We are here to support millions of SMEs as they commit to halve greenhouse gas emissions before 2030, and race to net-zero emissions before 2050. Our pragmatic approach aims to remove the obstacles SMEs face as they take climate action — whether curbing emissions in their own business or getting green solutions to market — and help them unlock valuable incentives.
Climatescape a knowledge landscape of the global ecosystem of organizations fighting climate change. Our website includes a directory of thousands of companies, investors, NGOs, and other organizations that support climate solutions.
DNZ Delivering Net Zero. An 18-month project funded by the UK Research and Innovation Energy & Decarbonisation Programme. It is led by Professor John Barrett from the University of Leeds Sustainability Research Institute, Professor Nick Pidgeon from Cardiff University’s School of Psychology and Dr Mike Colechin of Cultivate Innovation Limited.’
Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG)
ESG investing in the time of COVID-19
- COVID-19 reminds us that businesses must work in harmony with the planet.
- ESG investing focuses on environmental preservation and developing people.
- Global cooperation is needed to fulfil the potential of ethical investments.
Philanthropy and Digital Civil Society: Blueprint 2021
Community and alternative financial practices
Network organisation for the 21st century article.
Ireland Together business network and support for COVID pivots in Ireland.
OpenCollective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
Communities for Future is being spearheaded by ECOLISE, the European network for community-led initiatives on climate change and sustainability.
Looking forward to Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance course with Renaissance U.
Forming your organisation via The Wheel
EVENTS
How to bring Respect, Integrity and Dignity to Human Data 1st March 2021. This introductory course explores the complexities of human data with an intention of bringing deeper respect, integrity and dignity to it.
The Dollshouse hosting ambitious works by Dutch and International Artists* within a tiny physical gallery space, and a (theoretically) infinitely expandable virtual space, The Dollhouse tests the role of scale, value, materiality and virtual worth in the art world today.
With a wonderful Padlet for the front garden painted space.
APPS to test or not
Visual Facilitator a new kid on the block – have you used it?
See.Sense creates award-winning cycling tech products that improve cycling, and generate data insights that help transform our cities for more cycling. The site has an excellent mapping tool to report cycling incidents and infrastructure issues.
Greengeeks choose the hosting provider who makes it easy and fast to create websites, while helping the environment.
The internet industry consumes enormous amounts of energy. The backbone of the internet are data centers which hold millions of large servers, stacked on top of each other in racks and they are powered up and running all day every day.
These servers consume enormous of energy and to make sure that they do not over heat and fail, they are blasted with arctic temperature air all day every day.
In fact 40% of all of the energy used to power the internet is used to keep those servers from overheating.
Roisin Markham 
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