Public Cloud for Public Good (PC4PG‪)‬ Aerin Booth

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aerin is joined by Steven Gonzalez, a self-proclaimed anthropologist of data centres and cloud storage. Steven also wrote an article for WIRED called 'The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy.' It's all too easy to believe in the illusion of neverending data storage and streaming, but it's destroying the natural world. You can check out that article here.

Steven's chosen charity for our £500 donation is Concentrate, a nonprofit organisation that strives to foster sustainable agriculture practices and lifestyles in remote rural communities in Mexico, with a focus on indigenous communities and empowering women to cultivate land and reduce the waste footprint of their communities. https://www.concentrarte.org/ Donation Link: https://www.concentrarte.org/quiero-ser-donador.htmlThe organisation that we're shining a light on today is The State of Open Conference 2023, the UK's Open Technology conference. Our host Aerin has been bringing this conference together, working as Conference Content Director. Check out the website below to see what's happening and let us know if you'd like to attend in London on the 7-8th of February because we're giving away tickets to podcast listeners: aerin@cloudsustainably.co.uk
Conference website: https://stateofopencon.com
This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aerin is joined by Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox from Onix, a Cloud Consultancy company and networking organisation. The focus of the conversation is how to architect in the cloud sustainably. 
Kate & Micheal’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.stjude.org/
The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is LifeStraw. We have featured them once before but they deserve another shoutout! LifeStraw are A B-Corp certified company selling re-usable water bottles with a built-in straw designed to filter out harmful bacteria, parasites, dirt and micro-plastics. LifeStraw’s Give Back program ensures that for every product sold, a child in need receives safe water for an entire year. Since its inception in 2014, the LifeStraw Give Back program has provided over 6 million kids with a year of safe water. For more info you can visit their website: https://eu.lifestraw.com/en-gb
This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aaron is joined by Liz Fong Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb. Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across billions of rows of data to definitively solve problems. Liz talks about her career progression at Honeycomb, exactly what it means to be a field CTO, and how we can all work more sustainably. We also touch on transgender rights and transgender people within tech.
Liz’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Trans Lifeline (USA) and Mermaids (UK). Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline, non-profit organisation offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. For the trans community, by the trans community. Mermaids has evolved into one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities, empowering thousands of people with its secure online communities, local community groups, helpline services, web resources, events and residential weekends. For more information and to support, you can visit both websites below.
https://translifeline.org
https://mermaidsuk.org.uk
This week our company spotlight is the Green Software Foundation. Their mission is to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for creating and building green software. For more information you can visit their website: https://greensoftware.foundation
This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aaron is joined by Stephanie Gooch who is a commercial architect in the AWS OPTICS team. They serve as subject matter experts guiding customers through ways to optimise their current and future AWS spend. Their team specialises in understanding the unique complexities of large customers and dive deep into their cost and usage data to recommend and educate customers on long term cost management and optimisation strategies.
Stephanie’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Amnesty International UK. They work to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and dignity are denied. As a global movement of over ten million people, Amnesty International is the world's largest grassroots human rights organisation. For more information and to support them you can visit their website: https://www.amnesty.org.uk
This week our company spotlight is a little different. We just want to encourage you to go out, find different communities with which you share common interests and meet new people.
This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk
To find Stephanie;
https://www.twitch.tv/aws
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKeystoAWSOptimization
https://twitter.com/liftlikeanerd
https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/300_labs/300_cur_queries/
https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/200_labs/200_cloud_intelligence/
https://wellarchitectedlabs.com/cost/300_labs/300_optimization_data_collection/ 


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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aaron is joined by Michael Dowdon, international keynote speaker, CEO of Andromeda Galactic Solutions, and President of FlexePark. As a leader with almost 30 years in the technology industry, he has worked alongside more than 100 companies to build human-centered solutions. Today we discuss the future of technology, coding and how he has set up his businesses to be more carbon neutral.
Michael’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Code.org, an education innovation non-profit dedicated to the vision that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science as part of their core K-12 education. For more information and to support them you can visit their website: https://code.org/
The organisation that we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is OpenUK, a UK-based not-for-profit company which supports open source collaboration and open technologies within the United Kingdom. They are holding an event in Edinburgh on the 16th November 2022 focusing on sustainability. If you are thinking about attending then our host Aerin will be organising a sustainable data centre tour for the following day (17th Nov). We hope to see you there. For more info and to attend you can visit their website: https://openuk.uk/
This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.
This week Aerin is joined by two guests, Gerry McGovern, author of the book World Wide Waste as well as Victoria Harvey, co-founder at Clima. Gerry is a public speaker who is against waste and bad practices in tech, particularly when it comes to smartphones, and laptops. Victoria’s digital marketing company Clima work with media, advertising and production companies to embed sustainability into their ethos and operations. Today we ask the question, is it time to rage against the cloud? Is the cloud being used in a sustainable way and what can be done to improve practices?
Victoria would like our £500 donation to be split between the Pakistan flooding disaster as well as Eco Brixs, a closed-loop recycling model to help tackle the issue of plastic waste and unemployment in Uganda. For more information and to support both causes you can visit these websites respectivly:
https://www.dec.org.uk/appeal/pakistan-floods-appeal 
https://www.ecobrixs.org/home
This week we are shining a light on Wholegrain Digital, London’s original sustainable WordPress agency. Their mission is to create the best websites in the world, use business as a force for good and to help accelerate the shift to an Internet that’s good for people and planet. For more info you can visit their website: https://www.wholegraindigital.com
This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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