Data For Future Tammy & Pavlo

In this heartening episode of Data for Future, Marie Mélinon unfolds her journey into a sustainability career, detailing the inception of her circular economy nappy business and her current dedication on climate education through workshops. 🔄🍃 Through her experiences, she highlights the significance of empowering individuals with knowledge and the critical nature of climate adaptation. Let’s dive in!





Key Takeaways:


Courage in Transition: Transitioning to sustainability requires courage and deep self-reflection, never will it feel to be the perfect time. 🌟
The Power of Workshops: Climate workshops serve as a potent tool for spreading awareness and motivating actionable change. 📚🌱
Urgency of Adaptation: The necessity for climate adaptation shines through as an essential, yet often overlooked, aspect of sustainability. 🌧️➡️
Rewarding Experiences: The most rewarding aspect of all? Spoiler: for Marie, it is witnessing participants' empowerment and training new facilitators to enlarge the community. 🌟📢
Conscious Consumption: A simple step towards sustainability can be questioning our consumption habits and understanding the impact of our choices. 🤔🌍


Rethinking Digital Impact: The environmental impact of digital devices v.s. data center impacts. 💻🌳



Chapters Breakdown:


00:00 Introduction and Background: Marie shares her roots and the evolution of her passion for sustainability. 🌳❤️


03:01 Starting a Circular Economy Business: Insights into the creation of Pana and its mission to reduce diaper waste. ♻️👶


08:10 Challenges and Highlights: Reflecting on the hurdles and achievements of running a circular economy enterprise. 🚧🏆


11:32 Hosting Climate Workshops: The transformative power of facilitating workshops on climate topics. 📈📚


23:53 Long-Term Goals and Passion for Biodiversity: Marie discusses her dreams of rural living and deep connection with nature. 🌄🌿


26:41 Workshops for Companies and Individuals: Tailoring workshops to inspire corporate and personal environmental responsibility. 🏢👥


30:07 Adaptation to Climate Change Workshop: A deep dive into preparing for and mitigating climate change impacts. 🛡️🌍


33:28 Sustainability Tip: Question everything - A mantra for mindful living and sustainable choices. ❓♻️


34:06 Book Recommendation: "World Without End" - A comic book that explores complex sustainability themes in an accessible format. 📖🌏

Episode Summary 🌿



In this episode of "Data for Future," 🎧 we shine a spotlight on the digital sector's staggering energy consumption, accounting for an estimated 4-6% of global electricity use. 🌍💡 As we navigate through the complexities of our digital carbon footprint, we're joined by Richard Kenny, Managing Director at Interact, to discuss sustainable solutions and innovative strategies aiming for a greener digital future.



Key Insights 📊



- Digital Sector's Environmental Impact: Exploring the significant energy usage and carbon emissions of the digital sector, focusing on data centers 🖥️, transmission networks, and internet end-use.

- Digital Sobriety: What is digital sobriety, and how to have mindful digital consumption 💡

- Path to Digital Sustainability: To achieve digital sustainability, we need collective efforts from individuals, enterprises, and governments through education, policy, and groundbreaking innovations. 🌱

- The Ethical and Environmental AI Challenge: Do we need an 'AI solution' for everything? The dilemmas posed by AI's growth, touching on energy consumption, ethical concerns, and the risk to human creativity. 🤖

- Importance of Circular Economy: The circular economy's essential role in diminishing the digital footprint by promoting product life extension and waste reduction. ♻️

- Data Storage Challenges: Addressing the burgeoning issue of data storage and the pressing need for minimizing data proliferation and innovating storage solutions. 📈

- Interact's Impact on Carbon Reduction: Rich shares how Interact's secret sauce on drastically reducing energy and carbon usage through server efficiency optimization, some useful AI practice cases here. 🔋



Detailed Chapters 📖


01:00 Introduction: Overview of the digital carbon footprint and the urgency of addressing the digital sector's energy consumption. 🌍


02:54 Digital Sector's Carbon Footprint: Rich discusses the estimated energy use of the digital sector, its components, and the growth projection. 🔌


04:11 Data Centers and Their Impact: Energy use of data centers, highlighting their significant contribution to the sector's total energy consumption. 💡


05:10 Embodied Cost of IT Hardware: Rich and Tammy touch on the environmental impact of producing IT hardware, including the extraction and use of critical raw materials.


08:31 The Paradox of Clean Energy Creation: A deep dive into the environmental footprint of creating assets for clean energy and the systemic approach needed. 🔄


09:01 Discussing the Total Carbon Life Cycle of Data Center Equipment: Rich emphasizes the significant carbon footprint involved in the creation and use of data center equipment. 📊


10:35 Digital Sobriety: Introducing the idea of digital sobriety and the balance between consumption and its environmental costs. 📉


13:01 The Efficiency of Modern Telecom Networks: The conversation shifts to the carbon intensity of data transmission and the potential benefits of more efficient telecom networks. 🌐


17:36 The Need for Data Economy and Conscious Consumption: Highlighting the importance of being mindful about data production, storage, and consumption. 📚


26:19 The Circular Economy in the Digital World: Rich discusses the importance of a circular economy approach in IT to extend product life and reduce waste. ♻️


33:33 Addressing the Challenge of Data Storage: Tackling the growing issue of data storage and the need for innovative solutions to manage the data deluge. 💾


37:07 Interact's Mission and Impact: Rich provides insight into Interact's work, how they help optimize server efficiency, and his personal sustainability goal. 🎯


46:33 Future Trends and Technologies in Digital Sustainability: Discussing the potential of emerging technologies and trends to reduce the digital carbon footprint. 🚀



Tune in for a deep

🎧 Welcome to Season 2 of "Data for Future," the podcast where data meets sustainability! 🌟 In this episode , we're thrilled to spotlight Nathalie Cruchet, Head of ESG and Sustainability at Submer, and her inspiring journey into the heart of sustainable leadership. 🚀

What to Expect:


🔍 Nathalie's Background: Discover Nathalie's inspiring switch from a 20-year career in the IT industry to championing sustainability at Submer. 🔄
🌿 Sustainability at Submer: Nathalie delves into crafting and executing Submer's sustainable strategy, from ESG reporting to certification processes. 💡
💬 Coaching and Mentorship: Insights on the pivotal role of coaching and mentorship in Nathalie's career transition towards sustainability. 🌱
📈 Career Transition: Nathalie shares the ups and downs of shifting her career path towards sustainability and ESG. 🛤️
🗓️ Daily Life of a Sustainability Leader: A peek into Nathalie's day-to-day work, her strategic approaches, and the broader impact of her role. 🔎

Resources Mentioned:


📚 Doughnut Economics: A revolutionary approach to economics that balances human needs and planetary boundaries. Doughnut Economics 🍩
📖 World Without End: A historical novel that offers lessons on resilience and community. World Without End 🌍
🎙️ Coaching Resource: Personal growth and transformation at Change Ma Vie. 💼
🌱 LCA Assessment by Marcel Gómez Consultoría Ambiental: Explore life cycle assessment services. Marcel Gómez Consultoría Ambiental 📊
📉 Scope 1,2,3 Assessment with Sami: Get comprehensive assessment tools for understanding environmental impact. SAMI 🌐
📘 Additional Resources:

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Reports: IPCC 📚
The Shift Project: The Shift Project ⚙️
Our World in Data: Our World in Data 🌎
Freedom House: Freedom House 🗽



Contact Nathalie Cruchet: For deeper insights into sustainability and ESG, find Nathalie on Linkedin 📧

👉 Tune in on YouTube and Spotify to explore Nathalie's vision of integrating data, technology, and sustainability for a greener future. 🎤🍃

#DataForFuture #SustainabilityLeadership #TechForGood #ESG #SustainableTech

Transportation accounts for almost a quarter of the green house emission in Europe. When we envision a sustainable city of the future, we cannot ignore the importance of urban mobility. While searching for ways of optimising our transportation system, we first need to be able to track and measure how people move within the city on the daily basis. MotionTag is a company that measures in real time in detail how individuals travel around cities. Listen in our conversation with Fabien Sauthier, the COO at Motiontag, to learn more!

ShowNotes:

🚎 Mobility Impact

📍Fabien Sauthier

📝MotionTag

This is a special edition to celebrate our 50th podcast episode. Along the journey of creating the podcast, Tammy and Pavlo have gained much knowledge in the data and sustainability field. Meanwhile, they are also growing their careers as data professionals and data leaders.

This is an episode for us to introduce who we are, our inspirations and motivations for the podcast, and our intention to create a community. Moreover, we introduce our data journey- how we got into data and how we are navigating and growing our careers.  We hope to shed some light for people working in the data field or anyone who wants to start a data career.

With the hope of growing the community, we also encourage you to engage and chat with us. Leave a feedback with our Typeform on the web, or drop us a message from Linkedin or email. We are looking forward to what you have to say!

PS: Special thanks to our interviewer for the episode Alexis Bocuze, who is also an inspiring data professional who came up with this fun interview content. He is currently working as the Head of Data at Le Petit Ballon.For the first time, the podcast hosts Tammy and Pavlo are not interviewing but being interviewed!



Resources & Links:


Omdena
StatsQuest
Python from Zero to Hero udemy
Locally Optimistic
Platanomelon
Le Petit Ballon

We often hear about new installations of solar panels that make renewable energy transition real. But how often do we hear about the importance of keeping solar modules clean? Dirt and soiling can lower the performance of solar panels by as much as 50%! 

Inti-tech is a startup that was created to address exactly this issue in the country with one of the favorable locations for solar energy, Chile. With help of autonomous and semi-autonomous robots, they offer on-demand cleaning services for both residential and industrial solar installations. And they clean them with no water consumption!

Dive in with us into this interview with Inti-tech's CCO, Felipe Urritia!

Resources:

☀️ Inti-tech's LinkedIn

🔋 Inti-tech's website

🇨🇱 Chile's energy country profile