How can #opensource accelerate the #sustainability transition? There are multiple important catalysts and pathways still largely unexplored.In a guest post just published on the #digital4sustainability alliance blog, I focus on the role of #elearning LMS, the structuring of a #semanticweb competences ontology and how it helps derive a #moodle competence framework (freely downloadable / usable).digital4sustainability.eu/digi

EEA indicator update: EU's material footprint stood at 14.3 tonnes/capita in 2025, down by 3.4% since 2010, including a recent dip of 8.4% from 2022 to 2023. The level of material footprint in the EU is considered unsustainable and above the global average. Based on historical trends and projections for future material use, it appears unlikely that the EU will significantly reduce its material footprint in the next decade. #sustainability #circulareconomyeea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indi

The lack of (financial) #sustainability of #opensource initiatives when some projects are famously holding the entire digital system on their shoulders is not a freak of human nature: The formal quid-pro-quo economy, built on top of monetary systems and legal contracts is 1) a flailing work-in-progress and 2) is not a pattern that fits everything important. Egregiously, the most vital of all human activities, namely parents (mothers) raising kids, is effectively outside the economic game.

I will be joining and speaking at the European Digital Sustainability Skills Conference on 30 September 2026 in Brussels, organised by the #Digital4Sustainability project. We’ll discuss the Digital4Sustainability Alliance Community, how it can empower digital professionals towards a sustainable digital future, the opportunities and how to get involved.Looking forward to the exchange with experts and stakeholders from across Europe!#DigitalSkills #TwinTransition #Sustainability

In a new post we start exploring how the #digital4sustainability competence framework can be expressed as a #semanticweb ontology.openriskmanagement.com/towardsWe review various relevant taxonomies (#GreenComp e-CF, #ESCO) and start shaping an OWL based ontology to model the knowledge base. A first version of the ontology is online here openriskmanual.org/ns/d4s/inde#sustainability

RE: social.ftm.nl/@EricChrSmit/117#BigTech is an aberration and it is important to see it as that, rather than accepting "this is just how things are". Even in the context of our flawed democracies and economic systems the historically unprecedented concentration of power and influence in the hands of a tiny oligarchy is extraordinary.We actually have far worse and difficult #sustainability problems to solve, but we will simply not get there as long as big tech is the sole force shaping the digital sphere.

It is telling that the #aibros shrug off - and even celebrate - dramatic societal disruption, like entire sectors going obsolete and are rewarded insane resources by "markets". [Whether it actually happens is not so relevant]But when one suggests required behavioral changes (e.g., less wanton consumption) that might gain us a modicum of #sustainability, its a total non-starter.Simply put: the collective decision making tools for allocating resources are broken exactly when we need them most.

Very happy to announce that #OpenRisk joined the #Digital4Sustainability Community, a European initiative dedicated to advancing digital and #sustainability skills required to accelerate the twin transition. The transparency and empowerment of #OpenSource and #OpenData are levers that can be used to great effect for social and economic transformation and sustainability requires both and urgently.More about D4S and the rationale for joining 👇openriskmanagement.com/joining

RE: hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/1169The concept of the tragedy of the commons illustrated."when a resource is shared and can benefit the individual at a cost to the community, it is rational for the individual to overuse the resource, even though this collectively leads to the depletion of the resource for everyone"There is simply no way to reach #sustainability while society does not have effective mechanisms to prevent individuals and groups to to abuse the commons.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_

People who think/wish that worsening climate fundamentals leading to #heatwave events will suddenly sensitize society to environmental #sustainability are probably counting themselves prematurely rich.Just a few years ago we had a planetary scale biological #pandemic risk event which is now almost forgotten. As soon as stress subsides prevalent cultures and mental models reassert themselves, like an elastic band that returns to its base stateReal change does happen but is infuriatingly slow

Environmental problems will never go away. Not while we are so "successful" in colonizing every nook and cranny of the planet, invading and destroying biological ecosystems and inorganic structures.What will be a catalyst towards #sustainability is not solving specifically for #climatechange or (celebrated today) #biodiversityday but learning to solve the entire category.Which means inventing tools, contracts, institutions etc. that make living within #planetaryboundaries the norm.

Out of control wildfires...in the Netherlands...in late April / early May...ponder that#sustainability #climatechange dutchnews.nl/2026/05/germany-f