Green Tech South West

Our next event will highlight the awesome work of two fantastic not for profit organisations as part of Bristol Tech Festival. Join us on Thurs Oct 10th (6-8pm): 🌍 Solar Wizard: mapping rooftop solar potential - Annette Lamley (Senior PM) from Centre for Sustainable Energy 🌍 Flourishing with AI? Experiments in AI for environmental justice - Mary Stevens (Experiments Programme Manager) & Christian Graham (Experiments Team Co-Lead) at Friends of the Earth It's a hybrid event, get in quick if you're coming in person as we have limited space. Massive thanks to our amazing sponsors The Discourse | Certified B Corporation™, Krystal and ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™ And also to the team at Scott Logic for kindly hosting us.

It was great to see so many people at the Green Tech South West event in Bristol last week 🌍 Green technology and the work taking place in our local third-sector is extremely important to us at The Discourse | Certified B Corporation™, so an event titled 'Charities doing cool things in green tech' was always going to good! The speakers were fascinating as expected 🙌🏼 Annette Lamley from Centre for Sustainable Energy presented a project they've been developing called Solar Wizard (https://lnkd.in/e-BuR9nP), which calculates the potential to generate electricity from rooftop solar panels on your home. Well worth a look if you're thinking of investing in solar. Christian Graham and Mary Stevens from Friends of the Earth presented some of their work on experiments in AI for environmental justice. Well worth checking out the project page here: https://lnkd.in/eXBtnaE9 Christian made an interesting point in saying that 'we should all be asking questions about the environmental impact of AI'. I couldn't agree more, although my question to Mary was - does anyone have the answers and are they prepared to share the information? 🤷🏻♂️ She made a good point by saying 'probably not, but its important to ask questions and challenge people and policies regardless, as eventually enough pressure will force better information and more transparency. If you're interested in the subject of AI and the environment, check out an event that Friends of the Earth are running in November - Can AI ever be environmentally friendly: https://lnkd.in/eD4EAq6Y Thanks to all the GTSW crew and community for another insightful evening Mike Harley Hannah Smith Ellen Davies Miya Heap Ingrid Morgan

Thanks to everyone who came along and tuned in for Green Tech South West last night as part of Bristol Tech Festival We had 2 amazing talks from Annette Lamley (Centre for Sustainable Energy) on 'Solar Wizard' and Mary Stevens & Christian Graham (Friends of the Earth) on AI for environmental justice. 2 very excellent charities doing cool things in green tech! It was a packed room and we're really grateful for your support in what is our last event of 2024. We'll be back in January with an exciting line up of events for 2025. Huge thanks to our sponsors The Discourse | Certified B Corporation™, Krystal and ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™ as well as Tim Johnson and the crew at Scott Logic for being excellent hosts as ever. We'll be sharing the slides, recording and all resources mentioned over the next day or so. #greentechsw

Bristol Tech Festival - one of the topics at the AI breakfast yesterday was around the energy usage of AI, as chips get more powerful, search queries more complex - data's dirty secret is the sustainability impact, what can we do? Submerge datacentres in water (Swindon), move datacentres into waterfalls (Norway) or maybe, just look at how we code/ use AI/ manage our resources differently? After the Sustainability Breakfast on Friday this week we'll be looking at how Aviva have approached this, and look at what we can all do differently in our organisations. Mark Blakemore takes all the credit for the great title - Bristol has the paradox of being a tech hub but also defined by strong green credentials - how do they map up? Come along for both, we start at 8.30, it's going to be a very practical and engaging morning - and we'll provide the coffee and croissants! Louis Spencer Elly Rowley Nick Sturge MBE Ben Shorrock Matt Hatcher Thanh Quan-Nicholls Victoria O'Brien Andrea Kelly Karen Weston David Maher Roberts Angela Appiah Shippey Briony Phillips Mark Corderoy https://lnkd.in/eVyBe7Z8

Really excited to see the media coverage launching our Great Cable Challenge campaign today in advance of International E-waste Day (14th October) in The Guardian. And also phenomenal coverage through the Press Association including Daily Mail, The Independent, and over 267 pieces of coverage and counting. Our copper report produced in partnership with the Royal Society of Chemistry, and Bloomberg Intelligence, highlights the growing deficit in copper, and the key role that recycling electricals, including cables will play. Loved creating all the amazing stats and content for this campaign with everyone at Material Focus and Welcome to SHOOK. Search up recycle your electricals to find your nearest recycling point for all those cables hidden in your drawers of doom! https://lnkd.in/eym2p3m9 https://lnkd.in/e7F6P3iZ

Looking forward to the Green Tech South West our 'Charities Doing Cool Things In Green Tech' event on Thursday as part of Bristol Tech Festival. 🌍 We'll be hearing from Annette Lamley (Centre for Sustainable Energy) and Mary Stevens & Christian Graham (Friends of the Earth) 💻 We're delighted to have filled the room in person with 25+ on a waitlist but there's plenty of space to watch online either live or later. Save your spot through the link in comments. If you are signed up to join in person but can't now make it, please update your RSVP to free up a spot 🙏 Thanks to our fab sponsors The Discourse | Certified B Corporation™, Krystal and ADLIB Recruitment | B Corp™ And of course to Tim Johnson and the team Scott Logic for letting us mess up their office! #greentechsw #bristoltechfest

Such a great post. And let's hear it again for Lawrence Weston's community owned wind turbine 🙌

Krystal CEO, David Kimberley, has shared 10 practical tips on sustainability website Edie.net to help businesses reduce their digital carbon footprint. From selecting energy-efficient devices to encouraging sustainable search engines, Dave explores innovative ways to balance digital innovation with environmental responsibility. Explore the full blog post on Edie.net and take actionable steps towards a more eco-responsible business. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eXYfJ8XV

There's an interesting funding call happening at the moment for nature/green tech SMEs in the UK. It's called the Design to Deliver programme, and there's up to £50k of funding available for 12 SMEs. They are looking for solutions that can unlock human behaviours to regenerate nature that address the following challenges: Collective solutions for wild urban places – Led by Connected Places Catapult Informed choices for nature positive actions – Led by Digital Catapult Space-enabled information for a thriving world – Led by Satellite Applications Catapult Please help spread the word if you can! More detail and links below 👇

One for all our designers and creatives able to get to central #Bristol... a fab looking event on Monday 14 Oct.