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EnvCast: Environment Top 5
In our new format, this monthly EnvCast podcast series, features special guests highlighting an environment top 5 each month.
Each month we welcome two environmental professionals to explore what they believe to be the top 5 things to consider within a particular topic. Topics range from climate to leadership, agriculture to AI, and everything in between.
Look out for some curveballs in the top 5 each month, and remember, we can’t cover every important thing within a topic.
Our aim is to uncover how you can be part of the solution, to learn from the experts, and to sometimes think outside of the box, as we strive for a sustainable future.
The selection of Chartered Environmentalists, Registered Environmental Practitioners and Registered Environmental Technicians that we’ll be featuring each month is as diverse as our register is, with our podcasts featuring environmental experts from across a variety of sectors and disciplines. Areas of expertise range from air quality to waste management, water to engineering.
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EnvCast: Environment Top 5
What is the Impact of AI on the Environment? Environment Top 5
In this episode of EnvCast, we discuss the Environment Top 5 things to consider about artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental work. We cover what AI is, the digital impact of AI, carbon emissions and environmental cost of AI, hardware considerations, ethics of using AI and advice for environmental practitioners.
This special AI episode of EnvCast features two Chartered Environmentalists, Astrid Wynne CEnv, Head of Sustainability, AI and Automation at Techbuyer and Dominic Walkling CEnv, Associate director at Nature Positive.
Speaker bios:
Astrid is Head of Sustainability, AI and Automation at Techbuyer, a sustainable IT solutions provider that specialises in circular economy for enterprise hardware. She has co-authored a number of peer reviewed papers on Circular Economy, Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reporting in the data centre sector. She is also chair of the Sustainability Special Interest Group at the Data Centre Alliance.
Dominic Walkling is an Associate Director at Nature Positive, where he leads the greenhouse gas service delivery team. He specialises in corporate carbon footprinting and Science Based Targets, supporting clients with complex emissions reporting and reduction strategies. Dominic has spent time working on carbon tools and software development and has led an internal working group to research AI, upskill staff and promote efficient adoption of AI tools in consulting.
Extra resources:
- Circular Economy for the Data Centre Industry (CEDaCI) project: www.cedaci.org
- Paper: Is Hot IT a False Economy? (PDF) Is Hot IT a False Economy? An Analysis of Server and Data Center Energy Efficiency as Temperatures Rise
- https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
- https://hbr.org/2024/07/the-uneven-distribution-of-ais-environmental-impacts
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-54271-x?trk=article-ssr-frontend-pulse_little-text-block
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925231224008671
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