Green Tech South West welcomes Michelle Thorne, Managing Editor of Branch magazine to tell us all about the website, by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet.

Branch is a space for personal reflection, critical engagement with technology, and experimentation. This is our small attempt to uplift fresh thinking for how to green the web technically, aesthetically, and politically.

The articles strive to connect sustainability to root causes and to inequalities experienced at different intersections—gender, race, class, ability, and so on. Creating change requires all kinds of practices, so our contributors include climate activists, open source technologists, indigenous leaders, artists, energy scientists, and degrowth experts.

We hope to not only articulate what these desirable futures are, but also to embody them with specific tools and art. That’s why we made Branch a carbon-aware website. The site adapts to and reflects the physical infrastructure of the internet and the energy behind it. Utilizing data from a grid intensity API and the user’s location.

Branch is also a proud winner of the Arts Electronica Award for Digital Humanity prize in 2021.

https://calls.ars.electronica.art/prix/winners/8535/

Michelle Thorne is a Senior Program Officer at Mozilla. She leads OpenDoTT, a doctoral research program for the internet of things.

This is a free online event streaming via the CrowdCast platform. You will see the link once you RSVP. The evening before the event, we'll email those that RSVPed with more details about what to expect when using CrowdCast.

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👋 12.30pm - Event starts with a welcome from your meet-up organisers, Ellen, Hannah and Mike

📢 12.35pm - Our famous 60 second intros - a chance for attendees to introduce themselves, ask for help and tell us about something the group might find interesting

🗓️ 1.25pm - Round-up, other community notices and next event announcement

The event will be recorded and will be available along with the slides to view shortly afterwards.

ADLIB recruitment - https://www.adlib-recruitment.co.uk

Future Economy Network - https://www.thefutureeconomynetwork.co.uk

Climate Action Tech - https://www.climateaction.tech

Branch: an online magazine by and for people who dream of a sustainable internet