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09/24/2015 The ecological transition has a goal, but not the path to get there. The digital transition transforms everything, but knows not into what. Each one needs the other!

Transitions Squared: the Ecological Transition Meets the Digital Transition

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09/24/2015

The ecological transition has a goal, but not the path to get there.The digital transition transforms everything, but knows not into what.

Each one needs the other!

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Sunzilla

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Benefits of OpenSource?

Systematic Exploration

Multi-source Improvements

Fast, global, low-costdeployment

Interconnectionw/other projects

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Issues?

"Rare Earth" components in solar panels?

Will cheap, mobile renewable energy save fossile-fuel energy or just create more demand?

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Our Upper & Lower "Planetary Boundaries"

Oxfam /http://www.kateraworth.com

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ProductiveSystem

A Systemic Issue

Reducing Inputs

Reducing Waste

Reducing Demand

Resource productivity(technological)

Renewable resourcesubstitution

Recycling

Re-use Product durability,repair, adaptation

Frugality in consumption,mobility, heating…

Sharing &mutualization

Products & servicesde-materialization

Process productivity(systemic)

De-carbonated resource substitution

Rebound Effects?

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A Systemic Issue

"DE-GROWTH"

ProductiveSystem

Reducing Inputs

Reducing Waste

Reducing Demand

Resource productivity(technological)

Renewable resourcesubstitution

Recycling

Re-use Product durability,repair, adaptation

Frugality in consumption,mobility, heating…

Sharing &mutualization

Products & servicesde-materialization

Process productivity(systemic)

De-carbonated resource substitution

Rebound Effects?

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A Systemic Issue

"DECOUPLING"

ProductiveSystem

Reducing Inputs

Reducing Waste

Reducing Demand

Resource productivity(technological)

Renewable resourcesubstitution

Recycling

Re-use Product durability,repair, adaptation

Frugality in consumption,mobility, heating…

Sharing &mutualization

Products & servicesde-materialization

Process productivity(systemic)

De-carbonated resource substitution

Rebound Effects?

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Digital & Environmental

Source:OECD

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Digital Techology's Environmental Footprint

Electrical Consumption∎ 10% of the world's total demand for electricity, +7%/year

Intensive use ofnon-renewable resources

Majority of impactin production phase

Rapid obsolescenceand limited recycling

Rebound effects

Source:GDS EcoInfo

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Several, Distinct Research Fields

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7 Levers ofDigital Transitions

Source:Fing

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ProductiveSystem

Digital & Ecological Levers

Reducing Inputs

Reducing Waste

Reducing Demand

Resource productivity(technological)

Renewable resourcesubstitution

Recycling

Re-use Product durability,repair, adaptation

Frugality in consumption,mobility, heating…

Sharing &mutualization

Products & servicesde-materialization

Process productivity(systemic)

De-carbonated resource substitution

Rebound Effects?

OPTIMAL

SMART

SOFT

OPEN

DISTRIBUTED

DISRUPTIVE

AGILE

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Is "Open" Automatically "Green"?

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Or maybe it's about

What Can OpenSource Bring to Ecology?

Systematic Exploration Multi-source Improvements

Fast, global, low-costdeployment

Interconnectionw/other projects

Collaborative Quality Control

Legal designs favouringdiffusionTools

Templates

Platforms

Standards

Win-win cooperation

Positive-sumdisruption

(???) Value-exchangenetworks

Mass-Collaborationtools & experience

imagining an ecological world?

… WHAT ELSE?

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2-Ways Challenges

OPENSOURCE ECOLOGY

Desirable, Diverse,Fun Futures

Worthy, People-Powered Challenges

From Tech toTechno-Social Drive

SystemicThinking

Multifactor Measurement& Accounting

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