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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 Advocate based in the UK. We'll be talking to industry leaders about their experiences, the interesting things that they're working on and their tips and tricks on how we can live, code and build applications & services more sustainably. We will also be donating money to charitable causes, shinning a light on companies that are helping the world to become a better place and we'll also give you practical advice on how you can contribute to fighting climate change. To get in touch with the show and to sign up to our newsletter you can visit our website: https://publicgood.cloud If you would be interested in speaking on the podcast then please email aaron@embue.co.uk This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy - Steven Gonzalez

    01/27/2023

    The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy - Steven Gonzalez

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 2m
  2. Architecting for Sustainability - Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox

    12/05/2022

    Architecting for Sustainability - Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
  3. Fighting Fascists in Tech - Liz Fong Jones

    11/17/2022

    Fighting Fascists in Tech - Liz Fong Jones

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    1h 10m
  4. Who has the Keys to AWS Optimisation? - Steph Gooch

    11/02/2022

    Who has the Keys to AWS Optimisation? - Steph Gooch

    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/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min
  5. Making your business carbon neutral - Michael Dowdon

    10/19/2022

    Making your business carbon neutral - Michael Dowdon

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    37 min
  6. Is it time to rage against the cloud? Gerry McGovern & Victoria Harvey

    10/06/2022

    Is it time to rage against the cloud? Gerry McGovern & Victoria Harvey

    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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    50 min
  7. Passion is the Fuel of our Energy - Jeremy Lasman

    09/21/2022

    Passion is the Fuel of our Energy - Jeremy Lasman

    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 Aaron is joined by Jeremy Lasman, Founder and CEO of Universal Imagination Inc, a multidimensional research and development organisation. They are pioneering the field of passion to facilitate world-impacting solutions with outside the box innovation to elevate the evolution of civilisation. Jeremy is an inventor, adviser and former Technologist at Elon Musk’s SpaceX. Today he shares his career journey with us, what he’s working on now as well as his views on the future of technology. Jeremy’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, a voluntary health organisation based in New York City on a mission to save lives and bring hope to those affected by suicide. For more information and to support them you can visit their website: https://afsp.org This week we have two organisations that we have chosen to shine a light on, they are the Enough Is Enough campaign as well as ACORN. Enough is Enough is a campaign to fight the cost of living crisis. They were founded by trade unions and community organisations determined to push back against the misery forced on millions by rising bills, low wages, food poverty, shoddy housing and a society run only for a wealthy elite.  ACORN is a mass membership organisation and network (similar to a trade union) of low-income people organising for a fairer deal for our communities left behind by companies, councils and parliament. ACORN was set up to win the power and representation we are all entitled to. For more info you can visit both websites: https://wesayenough.co.uk/ & https://www.acorntheunion.org.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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    42 min
  8. Will being "Open" save the world? - Amanda Brock

    09/08/2022

    Will being "Open" save the world? - Amanda Brock

    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 Aaron is joined by Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK. OpenUK is the UK Organisation for the business of Open Technology being open source software, open hardware and open data “The 3 Opens”. OpenUK’s purpose is UK leadership and international collaboration in Open Technology which it achieves this through 3 Pillars; Community, Legal & Policy and Learning. Their 2022 focus is on Skills, Security and Sustainability. OpenUK are a UK not for profit organisation and advocacy group funded by partner donations and sponsorship. Amanda’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Geek.Zone. There is still a stigma against geekery and being smart but Geek.Zone are here to let every geek know that they are not alone and to encourage everyone to embrace their geek side. They believe that we are better together, so get involved and spread the geek love: https://geek.zone/ The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is DataVita. DataVita provide a complimenting suite of Multi-Cloud and Data Centre solutions, ideal for the wide range of public sector organisations as well as bespoke requirements of the private sector business' we power. Their 8,000m2 data centre facility is where their services are powered from. With N+N redundancy, 100% green power, and a PUE rating of 1.18 we offer some of the best credentials in Scotland. For more info you can visit their website: https://www.datavita.co.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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    38 min
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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 Advocate based in the UK. We'll be talking to industry leaders about their experiences, the interesting things that they're working on and their tips and tricks on how we can live, code and build applications & services more sustainably. We will also be donating money to charitable causes, shinning a light on companies that are helping the world to become a better place and we'll also give you practical advice on how you can contribute to fighting climate change. To get in touch with the show and to sign up to our newsletter you can visit our website: https://publicgood.cloud If you would be interested in speaking on the podcast then please email aaron@embue.co.uk This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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