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IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures Prof. Bill Tomlinson UC Irvine wmt@uci.edu Goal: Sustainability Tools: IT Tools: IT ! EcoRaft ! GreenScanner First Efforts ! Trackulous ! Sustainable Software Root Causes Unsustainable

IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures Prof. Bill Tomlinson UC Irvine wmt@uci.edu
Goal: Sustainability
Tools: IT
Tools: IT
• ! EcoRaft • ! GreenScanner First Efforts • ! Trackulous • ! Sustainable Software
Root Causes
Unsustainable Norms • ! Growth • ! Consumption
Unsustainable (but Reasonable) Aspirations
• ! Personal Transitions • ! Institutional • ! Infrastructural
• ! Greening through IT • ! Force multiplier IT Will Play • ! IT amplifies a Role culture
• ! Ambiguous Nevertheless ! • ! Symptoms
Shortcomings • ! Sustainable Software in my own (Efficiency) projects • ! EcoRaft (Symptoms)
• ! New phone every 18 months • ! Commute 16 miles (one way) • ! Living in Deserts • ! Red Meat - 40:1 Transform Culture • ! Quality of life
Social, Institutional, Infrastructural Problems
IT may support them.
How?
Especially Hard !
From Here to There
Getting back to root causes
• ! Subsistence Satisfying • ! Protection Human • ! Affection Needs • ! Understanding • ! Participation • ! Idleness • ! Creation • ! Identity • ! Freedom
• ! Craigswikihowandwhytoons • ! Educational resource – ! Animated how-to guides – ! Locally-relevant – ! Collaboratively created – ! Practically applicable – ! Context rich • ! Basic Needs – ! Understanding – ! Creation Sample – ! Participation Project
Discourage the Manufacture of Desire
Stop Shaving Yaks for Happiness
• ! Microlending Investing • ! Social Refrigeration Excess • ! Prosocial Conspicuous Consumption
These Are Not New Ideas
We Need Bold Plans
Otherwise, we’re just delaying.
• ! Collapse Computing Otherwise, we need research • ! Descent areas with Technology other names. • ! Peak IT
Thank you for your time. wmt@uci.edu

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