ContentsIn a world hurtling towards environmental catastrophe, business as usual is no longer an option. The digital sector, with its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and ever-increasing carbon footprint, has been a significant contributor to the multiple existential crises – or ‘polycrisis’ – we now face. But what if we could reimagine our relationship with technology and the environment? What if we could create a world where business, technology, and nature are in harmony?
A Sustainable Internet for All
Welcome!
Editors’ letter
Hannah Smith and Marketa Benisek
10 people share what finding beauty in the imperfect means to them
Issue 8 community-assembled playlist
Hannah Smith and Lima Dastgeer
Meaningful connection
Talking it out: Restoring information ecosystems through authentic human connections
Bárbara Paes and Olivia Johnson
One Movement, Four Wings: Connecting climate strategies
Melissa Hsiung
Connectivity, infrastructure and the defence of the Amazon’s socio-biodiverse ecosystems
Hemanuel Veras
What can digital sustainability learn from accessibility?
Mike Masey
Solarpunk and speculative futures
Pause
Jo Lindsay Walton
Care for life, care for the chips: the future is re-used, recycled and permacomputing
Alistair Alexander
Toward a Pragmatic Future: Accepting Imperfect Systems whilst Striving for Regeneration
Oliver Cronk
Solarpunk Meets Better Business: Reimagining a Sustainable Digital Future
Simon Blackler
Ministry of Imagination Manifesto
Rob Hopkins
Octavia’s Future is Here, Now What
Mica Le John
Design philosophy
Designing Friction
Marketa Benisek, Luna Maurer, Roel Wouters
The Wabi Sabi Web
Tom Greenwood
Echoes of electronic waste
Joanna Murzyn
Imperfect design for a better future
Thorsten Jonas
Alternative networks: Consciously designing from within earthly dynamics
Jesse Thompson
Perfection is the enemy of progress
The perfect site doesn’t exist
Michelle Barker
Rabbit holes of perfection
Mary Pitt
From bytes to carbon savings: Immediate’s sustainable transformation of Good Food
Tommy Ferry, Marketa Benisek, Michelle Whitehead, Linzi Ricketts, Filippa Furniss, Graham Martin
Small steps, big goals: Building sustainable change
Kim Lea Rothe
The perfect data paradox
Rory Brown
This issue is a collaboration between Wholegrain Digital and Green Web Foundation.