Welcome to Silk Logic’s Sustainability Daily Podcast — your source for the most inspiring news on how businesses are harnessing AI and automation for a greener world. I’m thrilled you’re here. Today, we’ll see how digital tools and bold thinking are cutting costs, shrinking carbon footprints, and even reinventing Christmas shopping, one thrift find at a time. Coming up: The story behind a state government’s move that saves millions while ditching Big Tech, a look at India’s booming sustainable rubber sector, and how serverless computing is making online training platforms leaner and greener. Let’s get started.

First up, what happens when an entire state challenges the status quo of software giants? The German state of Schleswig-Holstein recently completed a groundbreaking shift — migrating over seventy thousand government workplaces off proprietary Microsoft software and onto open-source alternatives like LibreOffice. The challenge: heavy annual license fees and the risk of relying on