IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025 - Digital Doesn't Mean Dematerialised: Greening Our Online Practices
By Lian Bell
From video calls to streaming and from websites to cloud storage, our digital tools seem invisible - but they carry a heavy environmental footprint. The energy and water required to power the infrastructure behind our digital practices contributes to climate breakdown, with direct impacts on already-vulnerable regions and Indigenous lands, where extraction and data centres are often located.
In this workshop at the IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting 2025, participants explored how to align their digital practices with their environmental and social values. Participants left with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions and adopt less impactful digital practices, from email habits to hosting choices, grounded in ecological awareness and aligned with their values.