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Marko Turpeinen appointed Director of EIT ICT Labs Helsinki Node
Published Aug 27, 2010Professor Marko Turpeinen has been appointed Director of the Helsinki Node of ICT Labs, a Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). The H...
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CESC at PIRA Retreat on Global Print Markets
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CESC at Love2010
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Bytes or paper: Greening media with ICT?
Published May 27, 2010The media and information & communication technology (ICT) sectors have developed rapidly in recent decades. There is an increasing overlap between the two sectors, with electronic media complementing...
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Dissertation on media and communication from a sustainability perspective
Published Apr 22, 2010We are proud to announce a new PhD thesis. On 27 May 2010 Åsa Moberg will defend her dissertation Assessment of media and communication from a sustainability perspective. Åsa Moberg is affiliated to t...
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Printing summit on green publishing
Published Apr 20, 2010Åsa Moberg and Malin Picha, both PhD students at the Centre for Sustainable Communications, attended the WAN-IFRA/Iarigai conference Printing Summit 2010 on 15 April 2010 in Salzburg, Austria. For the...
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The mobile shows the way to climate-smart travelling
Published Apr 06, 2010Mobile applications have considerable potential to make more efficient town traffic and make it more environmentally friendly. The Centre for Sustainable Communications at KTH is about to develop the ...
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When’s the next bus? Real-time information on bus departures through optical tags
Published Mar 01, 2010A new report by the Centre for Sustainable Communications documents a trial on an IT-based travel planning service. Skånetrafiken, a regional public transport provider, equipped timetable sheets at bu...
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Are e-books greener than paper books?
Published Feb 19, 2010Environmentally concerned customers may continue reading paper books. A report by the Centre for Sustainable Communications shows that there are no good reasons to claim that e-books have a better eco...
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Work in sustainable cities of the future
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Guidelines for a Sustainable Internet
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Integrating social aspects into life cycle assessment
Published Dec 11, 2009Social LCA (life cycle assessment) is a rapidly expanding research field. A new report by the Centre of Sustainable Communications explores the usability of social LCA for the ICT sector. The research...
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No environmental benefit with e-books
Published Dec 07, 2009You have to read at least 33 books during the lifetime of an electronic reading pad in order for it to be of benefit from a climate point of view. This has been demonstrated via a study conducted by t...
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The environmental impact of transcontinental data traffic
Published Nov 27, 2009Submarine cables carry over 97 percent of transcontinental voice and data traffic. The high capacity and bandwidth of fibre optic cables make it possible to transfer large amounts of data around the ...
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Mobile Applications for Sustainable Food Consumption
Published Nov 13, 2009David Kjelkerud, student within the project Persuasive services, presents his thesis “Lost in the Supermarket – Mobile Applications for Sustainable Food Consumption” on November 18, 2009 at KTH.
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Video from World Usability Day seminar
Published Nov 12, 2009The Centre for Sustainable Communications arranged a seminar as part of the global arrangement World Usability Day 2009. Jorge Zapico presented highlights from his research on carbon dioxide informati...
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World Usability Day 2009
Published Nov 01, 2009World Usability Day Seminar: A low-carbon lifestyle through ICT
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Greening newspaper companies through ICT?
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Comparing CO2-emissions at a blink
Published Sep 14, 2009A team from the Centre for Sustainable Communications participated in EcoMo09, a 24-hour competition in writing green code. The team contributed with an API for comparing CO2 emissions from different ...
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Five new Centre partners in stage 2
Published Sep 10, 2009The Centre for Sustainable Communications starts into a new contract period with 13 partners. The contract period for stage 2 lasts until June 2012 and was approved by the General meeting of partners ...
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