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Environment Variables
Each episode we discuss the latest news regarding how to reduce the emissions of software and how the industry is dealing with its own environmental impact. Brought to you by The Green Software Foundation.
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Episodes
Environment VariablesHow to make Green Claims with Green Software with Helen Neal
Chris Adams speaks with climate advisor Helen Neal about the growing regulations around environmental claims, including the EU’s Empowering Consumers for the…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: The Carbon Cost of Research Computing with Dr. Nick Souter
This Week in Green Software, Dr. Nick Souter from the University of Sussex explores how researchers can reduce the carbon footprint of scientific computing…
Environment VariablesCertifying Green Software
Host Chris Adams speaks with Anita Schüttler about certifying green software and the role of standards in making software sustainability more mainstream. They…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: The Economics of Green and Efficient Agentic AI
This Week in Green Software, Valeria and Adi explore the sustainability challenges of agentic AI and six ways developers can make AI workflows more efficient…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: AI Observability and Climate Education with Pascal Joly
Hosts Kate and Tzviya speak with consultant and technologist Pascal Joly about AI sustainability, observability, and tools for making smarter choices about AI…
Environment VariablesBackstage: Software Water Intensity
Producer Chris Skipper goes Backstage with Yi Ding and Hongliu Cao, chair and co-chair of the Software Water Intensity project, to discuss the development of…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Flexibility in the Age of AI
TWiGS hosts Kate and Tzviya are joined by Dave Masselink, founder of Compute Gardener, to discuss how software engineers can play a direct role in building a…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: The AI Water Management Challenge with Masheika Allgood
This Week, hosts Tzviya and Kate are joined by AI ethicist Masheika Allgood to discuss the growing environmental impact of AI data centres through the lens of…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: The Green Side of Observability
This Week in Green Software, Kate is joined by Diana Todea to explore how observability can become more sustainable by designing systems with efficiency in…
Environment VariablesModelling a path to Fossil Free Internet with Tom Brown
Chris Adams is joined by special guest Dr. Tom Brown from TU Berlin to explore how modelling can help build a fossil free internet and power grid. They discuss…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: State of The Fossil-Free Internet
Kate and Tzviya explore the Green Web Foundation’s State of the Fossil-free Internet 2026 report and what it reveals about transparency, energy use, and the…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Turning Green Standards into Code
This Week in Green Software, hosts Kate and Tzviya explore how green software is moving from theory to practice, highlighting new reference implementations for…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Watts That Smell
Adi and Valeria return to discuss the latest news from The Week in Green Software. They explore whether sustainability can be built directly into the software…
Environment VariablesIs Using LLMs for Tech Standards Work Actually Greener?
Chris Adams invites Joseph Cook, Arctic scientist and GSF Head of R&D, to explore the latest developments in green software and the growing pressure on the…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Carbon Debt, Energy Smells, and the Missing Water Story in AI
Live from Green IO, Tzviya and Kate are joined by Niki Manoledaki and Susannah Hill as they share highlights and key takeaways from the conference, exploring…
Environment VariablesTWiGS: The New Push for Comparable AI Carbon Data
TWiGS hosts Adi and Valeria explore the latest conversations shaping green software, from the environmental impact of AI and data centers to the growing push…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Asynchronous and Unreliable
Host Anne Currie chats to Sara Bergman and they unpack the latest developments in green software, exploring how AI growth, infrastructure demands, and policy…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Tokens, Water, and Transparency
Tzviya Siegman and Kate Goldenring dive into the latest stories shaping green software, from the rising energy demands of AI to the practical tradeoffs…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: CSRD and the SCI Standard
This Week in Green Software, hosts Carlos and Adi cover the latest developments in green software, including new insights into measuring and reducing the…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Green AI Tradeoffs
Host Kate Goldenring is joined by Chris Adams to explore how the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard can help companies meet new EU sustainability…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Does Faster AI mean Greener AI?
Hosts Adi and Valeria cover new research showing that faster AI models do not always use less energy, especially when multiple models run in parallel. They…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Local AI & Lean Observability
Hosts Kate and Tzviya unpack the latest news This Week in Green Software, focusing on how sustainability is increasingly being integrated into everyday…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Hourly Carbon Accounting
This Week in Green Software, hosts Oli, Adi, and Valeria explore the growing importance of hourly carbon accounting and what it means for building truly…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Energy effects of War in Iran
TWiGS hosts Tzviya and Kate are joined by Ryan Sholin of Electricity Maps to discuss how global events impact electricity availability, cost, and carbon…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Shift-Left Sustainability
This Week in Green Software, Valeria, Adi, and Oli come together to explore the concept of Shift-Left Sustainability—the idea that environmental impact should…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Who Pays for AI’s Energy Footprint?
Host Kate Goldenring is joined by Chris Adams and Tzviya Siegman for a news round-up on sustainable software. They dig into EnergyNet and the idea of routing…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: More New Hosts!
Asim Hussain introduces more new co-hosts on this episode of TWiGS as they explore the evolving intersection of AI, infrastructure, and sustainability. The…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: New Hosts!
This Week in Green Software, Chris Adams is joined by new co-hosts Kate Goldenring and Tzviya Siegman to explore the latest stories on their radars. They…
Environment VariablesBackstage: Carmen
Chris Skipper hosts Florent Morel and Joseph Cook to discuss Carmen on this Backstage episode. Built at Amadeus and now part of the GSF ecosystem, Carmen helps…
Environment VariablesSpace and Commitment to Green Software
Anne Currie hosts Anna Forlati to discuss why sustainability is not a cost center but a business advantage. Drawing on her journey from UX designer to Head of…
Environment VariablesHow to do Greener Prompting with AI and GreenPT
In this episode, host Chris Adams is joined by Wilco Burggraaf and Robert Keus of GreenPT to unpack what greener prompting and transparent AI actually look…
Environment VariablesAzure API Management
Chris Adams speaks with Tom Kerkhove of the Microsoft Azure API Management team about how thoughtful API design can reduce energy use and improve system…
Environment VariablesThe Green Shift: Transitioning .NET Services Across Architectures
Anne Currie is joined by Sara Bergman to explore what the shift to greener computing really looks like in practice, using .NET and modern CPU architectures as…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Tokens, Antarctica and SCI for AI
This Week in Green Software, Chris Adams and Asim Hussain round up the latest stories shaping sustainable tech. From new research on AI and energy use to…
Environment VariablesRoot and Branch and SCI-Web
Host Chris Adams talks with Adam Newman and Oli Winks of Root & Branch about their new Software Carbon Intensity Web model for measuring the real carbon…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Thirsty AI
When artificial intelligence grows, so does its thirst. Chris Skipper hosts sustainability expert Valeria Salis, digging into the hidden cost of powering AI…
Environment VariablesSoftware Architecture for Sustainability
Guest host Anne Currie speaks with Karthik Vaidhyanathan, Assistant Professor at IIIT Hyderabad, about integrating sustainability into AI development. They…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Sustainability along the DevOps Lifecycle
Guest host Anne Currie is joined by software engineer and sustainability advocate Julian Gommlich to explore how green practices can be embedded throughout the…
Environment VariablesBuilding Energy Awareness into Operating Systems
Host Chris Adams speaks with Didi Hoffmann, CTO of Green Coding Solutions, about building energy awareness into operating systems and making sustainability a…
Environment VariablesSustainable AI
Guest host Anne Currie speaks with Boris Gamazaychikov, Head of AI Sustainability at Salesforce, about aligning artificial intelligence with environmental…
Environment VariablesBackstage: The Green Software Movement Platform
WIN FREE TICKETS TO GREEN IO LONDON: CLICK THIS LINK AND COMMENT BELOW TO WIN Learn more about our people: Chris Skipper: LinkedIn | Website Gosia Fricze…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: AI Energy Scores & Leaderboards
Host Chris Adams is joined by Asim Hussain to explore the latest news from The Week in Green Software. They look at Hugging Face’s AI energy tools, Mistral’s…
Environment VariablesLLM Energy Transparency with Scott Chamberlin
In this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Adams welcomes Scott Chamberlin, co-founder of Neuralwatt and ex-Microsoft Software Engineer, to discuss…
Environment VariablesReal Efficiency at Scale with Sean Varley
Anne Currie is joined by Sean Varley, Chief Evangelist and VP of Business Development at Ampere Computing, a leader in building energy-efficient, cloud-native…
Environment VariablesReal Time Cloud with Adrian Cockcroft
Chris Adams is joined by Adrian Cockcroft, former VP of Cloud Architecture Strategy at AWS, a pioneer of microservices at Netflix, and contributor to the Green…
Environment VariablesBackstage: Software Standards Working Group SCI
In this Backstage episode of Environment Variables, podcast producer Chris Skipper highlights the Green Software Foundation’s Software Standards Working…
Environment VariablesEnvironment Variables Year Three Roundup
It’s been three years of Environment Variables! What a landmark year for the Green Software Foundation. From launching behind-the-scenes Backstage episodes, to…
Environment VariablesOpen Source Carbon Footprints
Chris Adams is joined by Thibaud Colas; product lead at Torchbox, president of the Django Software Foundation, and lead on Wagtail CMS. They explore the role…
Environment VariablesOpen Source Carbon Footprints
Chris Adams is joined by Thibaud Colas; product lead at Torchbox, president of the Django Software Foundation, and lead on Wagtail CMS. They explore the role…
Environment VariablesCloud Native Attitude
Environment Variables host Anne Currie welcomes Jamie Dobson, co-founder of Container Solutions and author of the upcoming book Visionaries, Rebels and…
Environment VariablesCloud Native Attitude
Environment Variables host Anne Currie welcomes Jamie Dobson, co-founder of Container Solutions and author of the upcoming book Visionaries, Rebels and…
Environment VariablesHow to Explain Green Software to Normal People
Host Chris Adams speaks with James Martin about how to communicate the environmental impact of software to a general audience. Drawing on his background in…
Environment VariablesWhy You Need Hardware Standards for Green Software
Chris Adams is joined by Zachary Smith and My Truong both members of the Hardware Standards Working Group at the GSF. They dive into the challenges of…
Environment VariablesCloud Infrastructure, Efficiency and Sustainability
Host Anne Currie is Joined by the esteemed Charles Humble, a figure in the world of sustainable technology. Charles Humble is a writer, podcaster, and former…
Environment VariablesBackstage: Green AI Committee
In this special backstage episode of Environment Variables, producer Chris Skipper spotlights the Green AI Committee, an initiative of the Green Software…
Environment VariablesThe Economics of AI
Chris Adams sits down in-person with Max Schulze, founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA), to explore the economics of AI, digital…
Environment VariablesOCP, Wooden Datacentres and Cleaning up Datacentre Diesel
Host Chris Adams is joined by special guest Karl Rabe, founder of WoodenDataCenter and co-lead of the Open Compute Project’s Data Center Facilities group, to…
Environment VariablesGreenOps with Greenpixie
Host Chris Adams sits down with James Hall, Head of GreenOps at Greenpixie, to explore the evolving discipline of GreenOps—applying operational practices to…
Environment VariablesThe Week in Green Software: Data Centers, AI and the Nuclear Question
Host Anne Currie is joined by the seasoned Chris Liljenstolpe to talk about the latest trends shaping sustainable technology. They dive into the energy demands…
Environment VariablesBackstage: Green Software Patterns
In this episode, Chris Skipper takes us backstage into the Green Software Patterns Project, an open-source initiative designed to help software practitioners…