Public Cloud for Public Good (PC4PG)

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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Tim Banks, Principal Cloud Economist for The Duckbill Group, a team of cloud cost management experts. Tim’s initial journey into tech started as a US Marine. Later, he left government contracting for the private sector, working both in large corporate environments and in small startups. Today, Tim leverages his years in operations, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering to advise and consult with clients in his current role. Today Tim shares with us, from a cloud economist point of view, what sustainability means to him. Tim is a father of 5 and also a competitive Jujitsu bad-ass! You can reach out to Tim on Twitter @elchefe

Tim’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is the Texas Abortion Fund. Restrictions on abortion access and funding are discriminatory because they especially burden people with low incomes, young people, people in rural areas, and people of colour. The Texas Abortion Fund oppose all efforts to restrict abortion rights and are committed to fighting for access to abortion for all. For more information you can visit their website here: https://teafund.org

The organisation who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is B Lab, the nonprofit network transforming the global economy to benefit all people, communities, and the planet. B Lab are known for certifying B Corporations, which are companies that meet high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. B Lab positively impacts companies around the world, helping them balance profit with purpose. For more information you can visit their website here: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us or B Lab UK https://bcorporation.uk/about-b-lab-uk/

This podcast is brought to you by Embue, a consultancy company helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and 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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Simon Wardley, a British researcher and former CEO best known for the creation of Wardley Mapping. A Wardley map is a map for business strategy. Components are positioned within a value chain and anchored by the user need, with movement described by an evolution axis. Simon explains how he uses mapping to conduct the research that he carries out and talks to us about his more recent focus which has changed the way he lives and works, sustainability.

Simon’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is the local food bank. Literally, he has asked Aaron to find his local food bank and donate the money. A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organisation that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and soup kitchens. We encourage you to support your local food bank if you are able to. Thank you.

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Greenpixie. The tech industry is not exempt from the environmental clean-up job we all face if we are to achieve a NetZero future. Greenpixie is facing this challenge head-on, researching and developing cutting-edge algorithms for digital carbon measurement, raising awareness, and building innovative tools. For more info you can visit their website: https://greenpixie.com/ 

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

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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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Matthew Todd, multi-award-winning writer, broadcaster and sometime performer who edited the UK’s best-selling gay magazine, Attitude, for eight years and is best known for his book ‘Straight Jacket: Overcoming Societies Legacy of Gay Shame’. The focus of today’s conversation is climate change and why nobody really seems to care about the end of the world! Matthew is able to provide us with some interesting insights into the world of media, exposing the fact that we are all told what we should (and shouldn’t) be caring about.

For more information on Matthew Todd you can visit his website: http://www.matthewtodd.net/

Matthew’s chosen organisation for our £500 donation is Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement with the stated aim of using nonviolent civil disobedience to compel government action to avoid tipping points in the climate system, biodiversity loss, and the risk of social and ecological collapse. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://extinctionrebellion.uk/

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.

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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Rhiannon Lawson who is currently working with the Welsh government as the Head of Standards for the Centre of Digital Public Services. Rhiannon shares with us her thoughts and experience of working with governments (including the Rwandan government), being a women in tech plus she offers us all some advice on how to work more sustainably. Rhiannon is also the host of the fantastic The Unfairer Sex podcast which you can check out here: https://open.spotify.com/show/204LzlUsbV1PexOGRsPSAP

Rhiannon’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is Freedom 4 Girls. The charity’s missions and aims are to support those who menstruate by challenging the stigmas, taboos and gender inequalities associated with menstruation through education, provision of menstrual health management solutions and actively being at the forefront of the wider campaign against period poverty. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.freedom4girls.co.uk/

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Who Gives a Crap. Toilet paper is their way of making a difference and they donate 50% of their profits to help build toilets and improve sanitation in the developing world. Did you know that roughly 40% of the global population don’t have access to a working toilet. That means that around 289,000 children under five die every year from diarrhoeal diseases caused by poor water and sanitation. This is changing thanks to the good people at Who Gives a Crap .For more info you can visit their website: https://uk.whogivesacrap.org/

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.

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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance and expert on Software Architecture, Technology & Cloud Infrastructure. Max is currently focused on improving how we can measure the carbon footprint of our digital economy. Throughout his career Max has dedicated himself to the wellbeing of people & our planet, and is committed to creating a positive future for our next generation. For more information on the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance, you can visit their website: https://sdialliance.org

Max’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is the Green Web Foundation. One day the Internet will run entirely on renewable energy. The Green Web Foundation believes that day should be within reach, and develops tools to speed up the transition towards a green Internet. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Brewgooder who were founded on a belief that the beer we enjoy together can be a force for good. For every can or pint of their beer that you enjoy, they are committed to ensuring that 100 times that amount will be provided in clean water on projects undertaken by their trusted impact partner, Charity Water. For more info you can visit their website: https://www.brewgooder.com

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.

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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Arfah Farooq, Community Builder, Angel Investor, Facilitator, Diversity & Inclusion Expert and Keynote Speaker. Today we’ll be focusing on sustainability in tech in terms of diversity, inclusion and community building. For more information on everything that Arfah is up to you can check out her website: https://arfahfarooq.com

Arfah’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is Muslamic Makers who are helping the next generation of Muslim change-makers level up across the tech industry and beyond. For more information and to get involved you can visit their website: https://muslamicmakers.com

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Skoot. They offer a range of simple solutions to a complex problem, no matter where you are on your journey to net-zero. They identify your carbon footprint, supply unique tools to avoid carbon emissions, and provide quality climate solutions to offset the rest. Skoot are building a climate-conscious community that says, "f&*k you carbon!" For more info you can visit their website: https://skoot.eco

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

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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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Dave Smyth, ethical web designer creating results focused websites. He runs a studio called Scruples with his business partner Colin Lewis. Dave does really interesting work helping small businesses reduce their reliance on the likes of Facebook & Google (basically surveillance capitalism) through an organisation called Below Radar. For more information you can check out their website: https://belowradar.co.uk/

Dave’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is The Trussell Trust who support a nationwide network of food banks. Together they provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty and campaign for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.trusselltrust.org/

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Veja. Since 2005, VEJA has been creating sneakers in a different way, mixing social projects, economic justice, and ecological materials. For more info: https://www.veja-store.com/en_uk/ 

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.

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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

This week Aaron is joined by Mark Butcher, Director of Posetiv Cloud Ltd and organiser of the UK FinOps community. Mark is a data centre and cloud specialist who focuses on improving sustainability for enterprise IT businesses whether that’s on premises or in the cloud.

For more information on the FinOps Community: https://www.finops.org/introduction/what-is-finops/

Mark’s chosen charity for our £500 donation is The Wildlife Trust. For more information and to donate you can visit their website: https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/

The business who we have chosen to shine a light on for this episode is Rumble. Gyms in London & Paris who give back to the world one workout at a time. They are committed to plant 1 tree every time you visit https://www.rumble-gym.com/about-us

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.

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good a newsletter and podcast talking about Cloud Sustainability & how we can use cloud services to make 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 Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK.

We'll be talking to industry leaders about their experiences, the interesting things that they're working on and their tips and tricks on how we can live, code and build applications & services more sustainably. We will also be donating money to charitable causes, shinning a light on companies that are helping the world to become a better place and we'll also give you practical advice on how you can contribute to fighting climate change.

To get in touch with the show and to sign up to our newsletter you can visit our website: https://publicgood.cloud

This podcast is brought to you by Embue, helping you to get a handle on your cloud spending and even reduce your environmental impact on the world: https://embue.co.uk

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