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

This week Aerin is joined by Steven Gonzalez, a self-proclaimed anthropologist of data centres and cloud storage. Steven also wrote an article for WIRED called 'The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy.' It's all too easy to believe in the illusion of neverending data storage and streaming, but it's destroying the natural world. You can check out that article here.

Steven's chosen charity for our £500 donation is Concentrate, a nonprofit organisation that strives to foster sustainable agriculture practices and lifestyles in remote rural communities in Mexico, with a focus on indigenous communities and empowering women to cultivate land and reduce the waste footprint of their communities. https://www.concentrarte.org/ Donation Link: https://www.concentrarte.org/quiero-ser-donador.html
The organisation that we're shining a light on today is The State of Open Conference 2023, the UK's Open Technology conference. Our host Aerin has been bringing this conference together, working as Conference Content Director. Check out the website below to see what's happening and let us know if you'd like to attend in London on the 7-8th of February because we're giving away tickets to podcast listeners: [email protected]

Conference website: https://stateofopencon.com

This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, 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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