The ecological transition has a clear goal, but knows not how to get there. The digital transition transforms everything, yet knows not into what. Each of these transitions needs the other! Can we put the transformative power of digital technology, practice and culture to work toward the ecological transition? Can we make the ecological transition as inviting, disruptive, exciting, motivating – and even as addictive – as the digital transformation!? The Transitions2 programme & platform intends to achieve this. How can opensource help?

1. 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!

2. Sunzilla

3. Benefits of OpenSource?
Systematic Exploration
Multi-source Improvements
Fast, global, low-cost
deployment
Interconnection
w/other projects

4. Issues?
"Rare Earth" components in solar panels?
Will cheap, mobile renewable energy save fossile-
fuel energy or just create more demand?

5. Our Upper & Lower "Planetary Boundaries"
Oxfam /
http://www.kateraworth.com

6. Productive
System
A Systemic Issue
Reducing Inputs
Reducing Waste
Reducing Demand
Resource productivity
(technological)
Renewable resource
substitution
Recycling
Re-use Product durability,
repair, adaptation
Frugality in consumption,
mobility, heating…
Sharing &
mutualization
Products & services
de-materialization
Process productivity
(systemic)
De-carbonated resource
substitution
Rebound Effects?

7. A Systemic Issue
"DE-GROWTH"
Productive
System
Reducing Inputs
Reducing Waste
Reducing Demand
Resource productivity
(technological)
Renewable resource
substitution
Recycling
Re-use Product durability,
repair, adaptation
Frugality in consumption,
mobility, heating…
Sharing &
mutualization
Products & services
de-materialization
Process productivity
(systemic)
De-carbonated resource
substitution
Rebound Effects?

8. A Systemic Issue
"DECOUPLING"
Productive
System
Reducing Inputs
Reducing Waste
Reducing Demand
Resource productivity
(technological)
Renewable resource
substitution
Recycling
Re-use Product durability,
repair, adaptation
Frugality in consumption,
mobility, heating…
Sharing &
mutualization
Products & services
de-materialization
Process productivity
(systemic)
De-carbonated resource
substitution
Rebound Effects?

9. Digital & Environmental
Source:
OECD

10. Digital Techology's Environmental Footprint
Electrical Consumption
∎ 10% of the world's total demand for electricity, +7%/year
Intensive use of
non-renewable resources
Majority of impact
in production phase
Rapid obsolescence
and limited recycling
Rebound effects
Composition d'un smartphone
[6] On the materials basis of modern society, TE Graedel et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2013
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Le recyclage dans la vraie vie …
Source:
GDS EcoInfo

11. Several, Distinct Research Fields

12. 7 Levers of
Digital Transitions
Source:
Fing

13. Productive
System
Digital & Ecological Levers
Reducing Inputs
Reducing Waste
Reducing Demand
Resource productivity
(technological)
Renewable resource
substitution
Recycling
Re-use Product durability,
repair, adaptation
Frugality in consumption,
mobility, heating…
Sharing &
mutualization
Products & services
de-materialization
Process productivity
(systemic)
De-carbonated resource
substitution
Rebound Effects?
OPTIMAL
SMART
SOFT
OPEN
DISTRIBUTED
DISRUPTIVE
AGILE

14. Is "Open" Automatically "Green"?

15. Or maybe it's about
What Can OpenSource Bring to Ecology?
Systematic Exploration Multi-source Improvements
Fast, global, low-cost
deployment
Interconnection
w/other projects
Collaborative Quality Control
Legal designs favouring
diffusionTools
Templates
Platforms
Standards
Win-win cooperation
Positive-sum
disruption
(???) Value-exchange
networks
Mass-Collaboration
tools & experience
imagining an ecological world?
… WHAT ELSE?

16. 2-Ways Challenges
OPENSOURCE ECOLOGY
Desirable, Diverse,
Fun Futures
Worthy, People-
Powered Challenges
From Tech to
Techno-Social Drive
Systemic
Thinking
Multifactor Measurement
& Accounting

17. Interested?
Contribute
www.transitions2.net
Take part in the
"Ecology by Design"
challenge
Take part in the
"Ecology by Design"
challenge
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