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CESC at Love2010
Jorge Zapico will present Carbon.to at “Love Stockholm 2010″. Carbon.to is an API for comparing CO2 emissions from different sources. It was developed by Jorge Zapico, PhD student at the Centre for Sustainable Communications, David Kjelkerud and Henrik Berggren.
Bytes or paper: Greening media with ICT?
The media and information & communication technology (ICT) sectors have developed rapidly in recent decades. There is an increasing overlap between the two sectors, with electronic media complementing and challenging traditional media alternatives. In her PhD thesis presented on 27 May 2010, Åsa Moberg examines how some new ways of producing, distributing and accessing media are performing from an environmental perspective.
Dissertation on media and communication from a sustainability perspective
We are proud to announce a new PhD thesis. On 27 May 2010 Åsa Moberg will defend her dissertation “Assessment of media and communication from a sustainability perspective”.
PhD opening at CSC
The School of Computer Science and Communication (CSC) at KTH which hosts the Centre for Sustainable Communications seeks 3-6 PhD students in Human Computer Interaction and one PhD student in Media Technology. One of the PhD positions in Human Computer Interaction will be closely tied to the Centre for Sustainable Communications.
Printing summit on green publishing
Åsa Moberg and Malin Picha, both PhD students at the Centre for Sustainable Communications, attended the WAN-IFRA/Iarigiai conference “Printing Summit 2010” on 15 April 2010 in Salzburg, Austria. For the first time in the history of WAN-IFRA, a large part of the conference focused on environmental aspects of the media business.
When’s the next bus? Real-time information on bus departures through optical tags
A new report by the Centre for Sustainable Communications documents a trial on an IT-based travel planning service. Skånetrafiken, a regional public transport provider, equipped timetable sheets at bus stops with so-called optical tags. Through these tags a test group of passengers could obtain real-time information on bus departures to their mobile phones. A research team from the Centre for Sustainable Communications took a close look at how this service was used, if it affected travel patterns and if it lead to increased use of public transport.
Are e-books greener than paper books?
Environmentally concerned customers may continue reading paper books. A report by the Centre for Sustainable Communications shows that there are no good reasons to claim that e-books have a better eco performance. Only if you read more than 33 e-books during the lifetime of an electronic reading device it becomes beneficial from a climate point of view.
New project about work in sustainable cities of the future
In future cities mobile communication technologies and broadband internet will be fully implemented. This opens up opportunities for organizing work in a more sustainable way. Employees can pursue their work at home, at office or in other settings such as telecottages, company hotels or latte offices. Collaborative tools like videoconferences, tele-presence, social media or Google Wave can potentially decrease the need for travel. The new Centre project “Telecommunicators’ work in the sustainable city” aims to understand and describe how tomorrow’s work will be organized.
Guidelines for a Sustainable Internet
A group within the KTH School of Computer Science and Communications is organizer of a seminar series on communications. At the first seminar on February 4 Jorge Zapico from the Centre for Sustainable Communications suggested a number of “Guidelines for a Sustainable Internet”.
Integrating social aspects into life cycle assessment
Social LCA is a rapidly expanding research field. A new report by the Centre of Sustainable Communications explores the usability of social LCA for the ICT sector.
