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Within Bounds: Limiting AI’s environmental impact

Days before the AI Action Summit, we joined 150 civil society organisations in urging policymakers and leaders to acknowledge AI’s environmental harms. As world leaders and industry executives met at the AI Action Summit in Paris on Feb. 10 and 11, over 150 civil society

Predatory Delay and Other Myths of “Sustainable AI”

AI Now Institute has published a new collection of essays setting out to inform Europe’s industrial policy for AI. As Europe ponders pouring billions of public funds into AI, this collection attempts to reorient the EU’s industrial policy away from its current trajectory of further

Critical Dependencies: Power Consolidation of Digital Infrastructures

Cross-posting from the Green Web Foundation blog: We’re proud to share our report Critical Dependencies: How power consolidation of digital infrastructures threatens democracies—and what we can do about it. It’s written to help funders who want to better understand how to strengthen the public’s interest

Launching Branch Magazine: Issue 4

The fourth issue of Branch Magazine is dedicated to the theme Open Climate. The co-editors of this issue of Branch Magazine met on a caravan. Inspired by the routes and exchanges of the old trading caravans, we have been traveling at our own time and

Learning from Wind, Water and Ice

Sometimes as an adult, you can feel quite static. As a kid, you cycle through your day of play and crafts and learning and sports and talking and being silly and just being. As an adult, especially living through a pandemic and the many compounding

Funders Convening on Climate Justice and Digital Rights

In October 2021, Mozilla, the Ford Foundation and Ariadne kicked off a new research project exploring how digital rights and climate justice intersect. In April 2022, we convened 30 digital rights funders interested in applying a climate lens to their work. Together in Lille, France

Towards a Fossil-Free Internet: Divesting from Big Tech

Republished from Branch Magazine: Issue 3. The internet—essential to modern life and also the world’s largest coal-powered machine. Like the shipping industry, packets zigzag across the globe and connect billions of people through a colossal distributed infrastructure we rarely see until it chokes, like a

Branch Magazine: Issue 3

Branch Magazine is dedicated to uplifting fresh thinking for how to green the web technically, aesthetically and politically. Themes in this issue include: solarpunk artifacts a vision for a fossil-free internet decolonizing innovation and the Green New Deal tech workers unionizing and saying no to fossil

Fight + Build = Power

At Mozilla, I m working with the talented Brandi Geurkink to explore how our advocacy and movement-building towards climate justice could better complement each other. We were struggling with immediate actions versus building up positions. The Fight + Build = Power model by Geoffrey MacDougall really

Forthcoming research on digital rights and climate justice

Mozilla, the Ford Foundation and Ariadne are kicking off a new research project exploring how digital rights and climate justice intersect. The research will better equip digital rights funders to craft grantmaking strategies that maximize impact on both issues. Interim findings from the research will