#ECOTHURSDAY: Journalists, academics, technologists and environmentalists will convene every Thursday around environmental justice through digital technologies

The internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) have both negative and positive impacts on the Earth and the environment. Among the negative, e-waste has been named as “the fastest growing menace on Earth.” How can we mitigate these effects, while enhancing a responsible, sustainable use of digital technologies?

Building on our history of emerging from green movements and our hands-on approach to technology, the Association for Progressive Communications is launching an initiative to address these urgent issues: #EcoThursday.

We are inviting journalists to join us every Thursday on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram around the #EcoThursday hashtag. You will have the chance to interact with academics, technologists, environmentalists and others interested in how to promote environmental justice and preservation of the Earth through digital technologies. 

How to join #EcoThursday

• Check out our article with background on the initiative 

• For interviews, coverage and other press inquiries, contact Leila Nachawati, APC’s media outreach lead: leila@apc.org

• Follow the #EcoThursday hashtag

• Join our Twitter list on tech and climate justice to access highlights from our network.

Useful readings

Check out this selection of recommended readings for more context on the different priorities in this field:

• Global Information Society Watch 2020 - Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South

• A guide to the circular economy of digital devices

• At the interstice of digital rights and environmental justice: Four issue briefs to inform funding

• Towards a new feminist principle of the internet on the environment: Two new publications now available in English

• Earth Day 2022: “Digital technologies left alone tend to disaster, but they have the potential to improve human activities”

• Shifting priorities for the planet: New research grounds digital rights in struggle for climate and environmental justice

• Seeding change: Environmental sustainability and the need to strengthen female leadership

• Seeding change: Communities mobilise open data to challenge oil industry pollution in Nigeria

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• Ethical selection of our internet access provider: Guide for users

• Selection of digital devices: Guide for users