Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aerin is joined by Steven Gonzalez, a self-proclaimed anthropologist of data centres and cloud storage. Steven also wrote an article for WIRED called 'The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy.' It's all too easy to believe in the illusion of neverending data storage and streaming, but it's destroying the natural world. You can check out that article here.

Steven's chosen charity for our £500 donation is Concentrate, a nonprofit organisation that strives to foster sustainable agriculture practices and lifestyles in remote rural communities in Mexico, with a focus on indigenous communities and empowering women to cultivate land and reduce the waste footprint of their communities. https://www.concentrarte.org/ Donation Link: https://www.concentrarte.org/quiero-ser-donador.html

The organisation that we're shining a light on today is The State of Open Conference 2023, the UK's Open Technology conference. Our host Aerin has been bringing this conference together, working as Conference Content Director. Check out the website below to see what's happening and let us know if you'd like to attend in London on the 7-8th of February because we're giving away tickets to podcast listeners: aerin@cloudsustainably.co.uk

Conference website: https://stateofopencon.com

This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

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Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aerin is joined by Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox from Onix, a Cloud Consultancy company and networking organisation. The focus of the conversation is how to architect in the cloud sustainably. 

Kate & Micheal’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.stjude.org/

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is LifeStraw. We have featured them once before but they deserve another shoutout! LifeStraw are A B-Corp certified company selling re-usable water bottles with a built-in straw designed to filter out harmful bacteria, parasites, dirt and micro-plastics. LifeStraw’s Give Back program ensures that for every product sold, a child in need receives safe water for an entire year. Since its inception in 2014, the LifeStraw Give Back program has provided over 6 million kids with a year of safe water. For more info you can visit their website: https://eu.lifestraw.com/en-gb

This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Liz Fong Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb. Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experience your code in complex and unpredictable environments. Within seconds, find patterns and outliers across billions of rows of data to definitively solve problems. Liz talks about her career progression at Honeycomb, exactly what it means to be a field CTO, and how we can all work more sustainably. We also touch on transgender rights and transgender people within tech.

Liz’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Trans Lifeline (USA) and Mermaids (UK). Trans Lifeline is a grassroots hotline, non-profit organisation offering direct emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis. For the trans community, by the trans community. Mermaids has evolved into one of the UK’s leading LGBTQ+ charities, empowering thousands of people with its secure online communities, local community groups, helpline services, web resources, events and residential weekends. For more information and to support, you can visit both websites below.

https://translifeline.org

https://mermaidsuk.org.uk

This week our company spotlight is the Green Software Foundation. Their mission is to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for creating and building green software. For more information you can visit their website: https://greensoftware.foundation

This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and even reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time: https://embue.co.uk

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.