Gerry McGovern
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Past articles by Gerry:
The True and Total Cost of Free in Digital World
Cheap and free cost the Earth. And we're all a part of the problem, along with digital giants. → Read More
A Tale of Pat and Nuala Geoghegan’s Farm, and Digital Toxic Waste
Metaverse, digital and waste. Who pays the price? Nature and decent people like Pat and Nuala Geoghegan. → Read More
Tech Reliance = Not Good for Environment, Minds and Bodies
There are indeed lots of things where it’s great to use technology to replace brain power and muscle power. There are lots of other areas where: “It depends.” → Read More
Not Just Bad CX: Heavy Websites Tax the Poor, Environment
Let’s stop living in digital fantasy land. Digital has massive and growing costs to the environment. It’s time we stopped pretending otherwise. → Read More
Measuring the Total Cost of a Smartphone
Only citizen action will get brands to change their life-destroying practices and produce fewer phones. → Read More
Digital and Its Ethereal Dream Is a Lie
Modern electronics manufacturers have had a long-term strategy to make their industry seem less polluting than the industries that came before. → Read More
It's Time We Got Smart About Energy Around Data Centers
Data centers are using too much energy — and at a great cost. It's time we got smarter about energy use around these data centers. → Read More
The Invisible, Immaterial Internet Is Not What It Seems
The internet has a big environmental impact, but its impact is hidden in so many ways. → Read More
Choose the Least CO2-Emitting Form of Digital Communication
Remember: just because it’s the heaviest option doesn't mean it’s the most effective way to communicate. Text is often far superior to images, audio or video. → Read More
Designing Sustainable Websites
We must become maintainers, optimizers, nurturers, reviewers, editors, removers, deleters. → Read More
Humans Are the Solution, Technology Is the Problem
Put people and nature back at the center of the model. Take the technology god down from its throne. → Read More
Lets Talk About Digital Hygiene
"We dramatically have to change our habits and our attitudes towards consumption," says Anneli Ohvril, founder and CEO of Let's Do It World. → Read More
The Environmental Cost of iPhone Updates
iPhone updates are responsible for almost 5 billion gigabytes (GB) of data being transferred every year. → Read More
Making the CO2 in iPhone Updates Visible
The method you use to transfer data has a big impact on the energy requirements and thus on pollution. → Read More
The Environmental Cost of Search
The brain is very efficient, much more environmentally friendly than Google or any AI. We should use our brains more. → Read More
Digital Design and the Culture of Waste
We design for impermanence because we design for the now. → Read More
In a Climate Crisis, Text Should Be the Default Option for Communication
Imagine civilization without text. Imagine science, politics, philosophy, government, business, without text. We take text for granted. → Read More
Breaking the Habit of Data Collection and Hoarding
The cult of collecting and hoarding data in the tech industry is driven by a belief that the more data they have on you, the more they can sell stuff to you. → Read More
Digital Is the Great Accelerant in Climate Change
Data centers may have become more electrically efficient but here are three reasons not to be complacent. → Read More
Data Center Planned Obsolescence, Part 1
One way data centers have become so efficient in reducing their electrical usage is by rapidly cycling through architecture and infrastructure. → Read More