Environmental Impact

Your local environment at your home is just as important geographic and global environment.  How does our relationship with technology become abstracted so that we lose sight of the fine details?

 

Home

Noise

Light

Vibration

Heat and cooling

How do these compound?  Cooling a server creates more noise and vibration than the server alone.  The AC can itself create heat that needs to be directed.

 

Communities

How does your home affect those around you?

Geographic region

People and identities 

Refurbishment - are you repurposing local ewaste?

Your neighbors

Power draw

Checking where your regional power comes from

https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly

 

Ecosystem

How do the choices we make come together to have larger ramifications?

This is global and local

Hardware replacement and e-waste