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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


  1. IT and (Un)sustainable Cultures Prof. Bill Tomlinson UC Irvine wmt@uci.edu

  2. Goal: Sustainability

  3. Tools: IT

  4. Tools: IT

  5. • ! EcoRaft • ! GreenScanner First Efforts • ! Trackulous • ! Sustainable Software

  6. Root Causes

  7. Unsustainable Norms • ! Growth • ! Consumption

  8. Unsustainable (but Reasonable) Aspirations

  9. • ! Personal Transitions • ! Institutional • ! Infrastructural

  10. • ! Greening through IT • ! Force multiplier IT Will Play • ! IT amplifies a Role culture

  11. • ! Ambiguous Nevertheless ! • ! Symptoms

  12. Shortcomings • ! Sustainable Software in my own (Efficiency) projects • ! EcoRaft (Symptoms)

  13. • ! New phone every 18 months • ! Commute 16 miles (one way) • ! Living in Deserts • ! Red Meat - 40:1 Transform Culture • ! Quality of life

  14. Social, Institutional, Infrastructural Problems

  15. IT may support them.

  16. How?

  17. Especially Hard !

  18. From Here to There

  19. Getting back to root causes

  20. • ! Subsistence Satisfying • ! Protection Human • ! Affection Needs • ! Understanding • ! Participation • ! Idleness • ! Creation • ! Identity • ! Freedom

  21. • ! Craigswikihowandwhytoons • ! Educational resource – ! Animated how-to guides – ! Locally-relevant – ! Collaboratively created – ! Practically applicable – ! Context rich • ! Basic Needs – ! Understanding – ! Creation Sample – ! Participation Project

  22. Discourage the Manufacture of Desire

  23. Stop Shaving Yaks for Happiness

  24. • ! Microlending Investing • ! Social Refrigeration Excess • ! Prosocial Conspicuous Consumption

  25. These Are Not New Ideas

  26. We Need Bold Plans

  27. Otherwise, we’re just delaying.

  28. • ! Collapse Computing Otherwise, we need research • ! Descent areas with Technology other names. • ! Peak IT

  29. Thank you for your time. wmt@uci.edu

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