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Sustainable Digitalisation

Green Innovation

Your Smart Thermostat Data Could Tackle One of Earth’s Biggest Emissions Sources

Data privacy is on everyone’s lips. But, could your smart thermostat data help to reduce emissions from the building sector’s enormous footprint?

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Sustainable Digitalisation

Knowledge

The Blockchain Paradox: Can Its Potential for Digital Solutions Outweigh Its Carbon Footprint?

Can energy-intensive blockchain really help solve the climate crisis? Or will it end up doing more harm than good?

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Environment

Green Innovation

Good for the Climate and Well-Being: App ‘One Sec’ Could Fight Doomscrolling

App ‘One Sec’ interrupts doomscrolling, for the good of your mental wellbeing and the planet.

Civic Tech

Ways out of the Climate Crisis with Digital Civic Engagement

With the help of digital tools, citizens can uncover environmental problems, collect important data and support protective measures. In this Special Feature, we explore the question: How can civic tech solutions advance climate protection?

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RESET Special Feature: Civic Tech – Ways out of the Climate Crisis with Digital Civic Engagement

What is Civic Tech?

Civic Tech – How Citizens Shape the Future with Digital Technologies. Interview with Geraldine de Bastion

Interview: Cloud Service ClimateVisualizer Helps Local Communities Stay on Top of Carbon Emissions

Satellites and Drones

Effective Helpers for Sustainable Development?

When it comes to protecting the environment and tracking changes in our climate, satellites and drones have become indispensable. If only there wasn’t the issue of all that space debris… In RESET’s latest special feature, we’ve been taking a look at the potentials – and pitfalls – of satellites and drones for a sustainable future on this planet.

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RESET Special Feature: Satellites and Sustainability

Interview: How ESA Is Making Space Travel More Sustainable

Outer Space for All! Just How Accessible Is ESA’s Satellite Data?

Interview: Space Junk – How Can We Stop Outer Space Turning Into a Garbage Dump?

Artificial Intelligence

Can Computing Power Save Our Planet?

Artificial intelligence has long since solved complex tasks and made our everyday lives easier. But do intelligent computer programmes also provide new solutions for environmental and climate protection? Here we set out to find answers to these questions.

 

 

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Artificial Intelligence: Can We Save Our Planet With Computing Power?

Interview: How Can We Make AI More Environmentally Friendly?

Data4Human: Aid Organisations Get a Helping Hand From the German Aerospace Center

Wildlife Insights: A Google-Built AI is Taking Animal Surveillance to New Levels

Blockchain and Sustainable Development

How Does It Work?

Everyone is talking about blockchain and DLT. But what exactly are they and how do they work? In RESET’s latest Blockchain Special, we offer some answers to those questions and take a look at how the tech can be used for both social and ecological good.

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Blockchain and Sustainable Development – How Does It Work?

Blockchain-Based Platform Textile Trust Aims to Make Industry Supply Chains More Transparent

Interview: How MineSpider is Using Blockchain to Keep Conflict Minerals Out of Our Supply Chains

What Exactly Are the Blockchain and DLT?

E-Mobility

Is Electromobility Key to a Future-Proof City?

Is the future electric? Our roads might still be dominated by conventional cars right now, but when it comes to e-mobility, there are promising developments. We looked at the current status quo, the potentials and future predictions, for an electric revolution.

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E-Mobility: Where Is It Taking Us?

New Study Shows: Electromobility Could be Carbon Neutral by 2050

Vehicle-to-Grid: Using Electric Cars To Store Renewable Energy

EU Mobility Atlas Reveals Potentials of Sustainable Transportation – But There’s a Long Road Ahead

Solutions and backgrounds by topic

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Environment

Green Innovation

umwelt.info Bundles Freely Available Environmental Data in One Place

The umwelt.info portal aims to make all open data and information on environmental and nature conservation issues easily accessible.
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Environment

Green Innovation

EWIK: Enabling Kenya’s Informal Settlements’ Participation In Sustainable E-Waste Management

E-waste start-up EWIK contains the country’s growing waste while offering vulnerable communities a chance to earn an income.
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Refugee Aid 2.0

Interview

Accessible, Digital Healthcare for Refugees? The Hera App Is Here To Help

Hera Digital Health is an app that refugees can use to access healthcare even as they’re forcibly displaced.
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Civic Tech

Green Innovation

Data Donation: How Our Digital Traces Could Benefit Society

Why does it have to be malevolent tech overlords who benefit from user data? Data donation could put power into the hands of those doing good.
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Environment

Green Innovation

‘Sustainable’ Computers Aren’t Great for the Planet: Here’s the Solution

Electronics manufacturers might seem sustainable—but French cooperative Commown reveals what truly sustainable computers look like.
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Environment

Green Innovation

Can Edible Coatings Be the Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Food Waste?

Edible packaging? Swiss company AgroSustain believe their product Afondo could be the answer to keeping our groceries fresher for longer.
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Energy Transition

Green Innovation

Could Fungal Batteries be the Power Source of the Future?

Researchers from Empa have developed the fungal battery, a completely biodegradable battery created with 3D printing techniques.
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Environment

Knowledge

Electronic Waste: What Happens to Our Used Devices?

E-waste is filling landfills and releasing toxins that harm people and the environment alike. How can we correctly dispose of our devices?
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Energy Transition

Green Innovation

Simplifying Scope 3 Decarbonisation with ClimateChoice 

Scope 3 emissions can make up to 90 percent of a business’s carbon footprint.  ClimateChoice helps companies understand and tackle them.
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