AI for Impact: Scaling Circular Economy and Sustainable Supply Chains
CSY Impact Consulting · 2025-07-01
Sushma Kittali Weidner shares how AI technologies are transforming circular economy strategies and improving supply chain sustainability. The episode highlights innovations, metrics, and real-world case studies where AI supports ESG-aligned goals.
CSY Impact Consulting. 2025-07-01. AI for Impact: Scaling Circular Economy and Sustainable Supply Chains. https://www.csyimpact.com/podcast/ai-for-impact-scaling-circular-economy-and-sustainable-supply-chains-with-sushma-kittali-weidner (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record pod-0099; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).
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In the Environmental Impacts of Data Centers 101 course, you will learn to analyze the environmental impacts of data centers using a life cycle assessment (LCA) perspective that goes beyond what you see in the news. This will include energy, water, land use, carbon emissions, global supply chains, e-waste concerns, ecological impacts, and environmental justice case studies. Whether you work in tech, sustainability, policy, or are just curious about how AI systems operate behind the scenes, this course gives you the clarity and frameworks to understand these impacts from end-to-end.
Nathaniel Burola
Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; E-waste and circularity
This paper examines how AI has emerged as a contested force in climate discourse, with some championing its potential for renewable energy and emissions monitoring while others highlight its carbon footprint, water use, and e-waste. The authors apply the concept of Jevons' Paradox to AI, arguing that efficiency gains may paradoxically spur increased consumption and that understanding these second-order rebound effects requires combining lifecycle assessments with socio-economic analyses. The paper argues that AI's environmental trajectory depends on systemic governance choices rather than technical optimization alone.
FAccT '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; E-waste and circularity
In this CXO Bytes episode, Sanjay Podder and May Yap, SVP & CIO of Jabil, discuss the intersection of green IT, responsible AI, and sustainable manufacturing, highlighting Jabil’s integration of renewable energy, circular economy principles, and AI-driven solutions into its operations, its commitment to carbon neutrality by 2045, and key initiatives like energy-efficient manufacturing, water conservation, and e-waste management, while emphasizing the role of green IT practices and AI in driving sustainable innovation.
youtube.com
Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Governance and society; E-waste and circularity
This paper advocates for integrating Feminist African Ethics into Sustainable AI discourse to address the environmental and social injustices, particularly affecting African women, arising from AI’s carbon footprint, e-waste, and extractive lifecycles.
