World Wide Waste with Gerry McGovern
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Ben Schwarz: Is 5G a good thing or not?
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ben's career spans IT to telecoms and the evolving media landscape. With a foundation in IT at Logica for a decade, he transitioned to being the CTO o...
Vitaly Friedman
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Web design has rarely taken the environment into account. Over the last decade, web pages have become ten times bigger, and up to 80% of the weight of...
Manuel Vexler: 5G: A symptom of the Growth Death Cult
28 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Manuel Vexler is the Executive Director at the Actionable Knowledge Foundational Institute (AKFI) and a Cornell Instructor and facilitator. He has a w...
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate 'Thirsty Data: Data Centers increasing impact on fresh water'
07 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fixing Futures research training group at Goethe University. As a graduate of MIT's His...
Pietro Jarre ‘No such thing as sustainable mining’
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Pietro Jarre has a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He’s a specialist in geotechnical and environmental issues on waste rock deposits, mining ...
Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys Nature and communities'
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently the National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Environmental Movement-a le...
Kaustubh Thapa E- waste : Ultimate Producer Responsibility
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
People like Kaustubh Thapa give me hope. Kaustubh is finishing his PhD at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in...
Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data'
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence princip...
John Booth 'Data centers: Data theatre and the tsunami of frivolous data'
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and his wo...
Pat and Nuala Geoghegan 'Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland'
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural IrelandAluminum is a critical material for digital. Since 1970, there has been 559% increase in its mining. A...
Thea Kleinmagd 'Designing a smartphone that lasts'
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Thea Kleinmagd is a Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone. When you are buying your next smartphone, please consider Fairphone. They make ex...
Josh Lepawsky 'Pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal'
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. He researches waste from the manufacturin...
Gauthier Roussilhe 'The hidden costs of data centers'
21 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable peopl...
Andy Farnell 'Perils of e-waste and benefits of being a digital vegan'
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Andy Farnell is a British computer scientist and author specialising in signals, systems and cybersecurity. His popular textbook "Designing Sound" (MI...
Hannah Smith 'The hidden weight of code'
27 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hannah is a freelance WordPress developer from Bristol with a background in Computer Science. Before freelance life, amongst other things, she honed h...
Sharon Richardson 'Blind belief in data and technology as bad as blind belief in belief.'
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
'Earth Experience Design' course with Gerry McGovernDate: February 19 2022Where: OnlineTickets: https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-d...
Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems'
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Earth Experience Design - Online training Course with Gerry - Jan 19 2022 https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022 ...
Anneli Ohvril 'Let’s talk about digital hygiene'
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If someone looked inside your computer or your Cloud account would they find a tidy, clean, well-maintained place? Or would they find a messy, chaotic...
Virginie Guerin 'Digital hygiene: a recipe for cleaning up your digital life'
25 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Hear about the many digital sustainability initiatives that are happening in France from Virginie Guerin, an urban planner, who is co-founder of World...
Tom Greenwood 'Is digital the great accelerator of the climate crisis?'
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Join Gerry McGovern at the Doing Design Festival on June 18 / See http://www.doingdesignfestival.com The Website Carbon Calculator is a real go to...
Sarah Winters 'How COVID-19 drove panic publishing'
29 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When COVID-19 hit, many governments reverted to a panic publishing approach, getting as much content up on their websites as quickly as possible. Stru...
Liam Nugent '99.9% of what you do is rubbish'
18 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When Liam Nugent closed down his digital agency he accounted for all the digital stuff they had created. Each employee was generating about 100 gig...
Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy'
12 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable. Beth Stensen, thei...
Nick Evanson 'Big Data growth is not sustainable'
12 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By 2035, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,000 zettabytes of data produced globally. Based on current storage pricing, 2,000 zettabytes w...
Jono Alderson 'The unseen cost of poor web design'
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The growth in webpage size over the years has been astounding. It is driven by a culture of delivery, a project mindset, and a feeling that the Web is...
Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.'
01 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the world...
Chris Coyier 'Easy to design, hard to use'
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was brought to you by ThisisDoing.com Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it...
Erika Hall 'Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience'
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was brought to you by This is Doing - Design & Innovation Online Learning In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall f...
Karen Peeters 'Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story'
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We need your support. Show some love by becoming a Premium Member. Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet a...
Eric Meyer 'Overcoming complexity’s invisible force'
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet,...
Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.'
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet,...
Introducing 'World Wide Waste' with Gerry McGovern
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to welcome Gerry McGovern to the This is HCD Team, and delighted to present to you his new podcast, World Wide Waste.How do we design ...