Awesome Permacomputing
A curation of resources, projects, and communities related to permacomputing.
Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.
Contents
- Resources
- Websites
- Articles
- Books
- Visual
- Audiovisual
- Projects
- Software
- Hardware
- Experimental
- Communities
- Collectives
- Forums
Resources
Websites
- Permacomputing - A wiki for permacomputing.
- Low-tech Magazine - Articles about solving human problems with low-tech solutions.
- Monoskop - A wiki for arts and studies.
- Damaged Earth Catalog - A growing online catalog of the different terms in circulation.
- XXIIVV - Ideas and notes on technology, art, language, and philosophy.
- The Luddite - A skeptical look at technology and its impact on society.
- Frugal Computing - Ideas and notes on frugal computing.
- Modding Fridays - A wiki about maintenance, repurposing, and reappropriation of supposedly obsolete electronics.
- No tech Magazine - Low-tech Magazine's sister blog, it emphasizes simple technologies over high-tech, resource-intensive ones.
- Simplifier - Practical, low-tech guides and resources to simplify daily life.
- Death to Bullshit - Critiques the clutter and misleading tactics common in digital experiences.
- Do the Math - Explores the physical limits of growth in energy consumption and technological progress.
- Branch Magazine - Articles about climate justice and internet sustainability.
- Pluralistic - Explores technology, digital rights, and societal issues.
Articles
- Permacomputing - Ville-Matias Heikkilä, 2020.
- A holistic approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture - Devine Lu Linvega, 2021.
- Permacomputing Aesthetics: Potential and Limits of Constraints in Computational Art, Design and Culture - Aymeric Mansoux, Brendan Howell, Dušan Barok, and Ville-Matias Heikkilä, 2023.
- Permacomputing and the Dance of Repair Amid the Vestiges of Digital Obsolescence - Nancy Mauro-Flude, 2023.
- The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics - Nancy Mauro-Flude, 2024.
- The Beauty of Finished Software - Jose M. Gilgado, 2023.
- What might degrowth computing look like? - Neil Selwyn, 2022.
- Low Fat Computing - Jeff Fox, 1998.
- What can a technologist do about climate change? - Bret Victor, 2015.
- The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud - Steven Gonzalez Monserrate, 2022.
- It's Not Easy Being Green: On the Energy Efficiency of Programming Languages - Nicolas van Kempen, Hyuk-Je Kwon, Dung Tuan Nguyen, and Emery D. Berger, 2024.
- The biggest lie tech people tell themselves — and the rest of us - Rose Eveleth, 2019.
- Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI - Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandra Sasha Luccioni, and Meredith Whittaker, 2024.
- Redefining our needs: permacomputing and vernacular computing - Robert Engels, 2022.
Books
Fiction
- The Dispossessed - Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.
- The Fifth Sacred Thing - Starhawk, 1993.