sustainability

This paper presents an end-to-end pipeline for identifying and forecasting green skill demand using online job postings from Mexico's automotive industry. It benchmarks 15 time-series forecasting models, finding transformer-based models like FEDformer and Informer perform best, and introduces a two-dimensional framework to classify skills by growth dynamics.

Researchers from MIT and IBM have developed a rapid tool that estimates AI power consumption in seconds, significantly faster than traditional emulation methods, to help optimize data center energy efficiency.

Google announces its first data center in Kronstorf, Austria, aimed at supporting digital services and AI capabilities while prioritizing sustainability through solar power and heat recovery.

MIT researchers propose ESGLens, a RAG framework that extracts structured ESG data from PDF reports and predicts environmental scores with 0.48 Pearson correlation against LSEG benchmarks.

NVIDIA highlights five initiatives using AI and accelerated computing to address climate change, wildlife conservation, and recycling efficiency. Key features include Earth-2 climate models, orangutan nest detection, and robotic waste sorting.

Grale is a product aimed at addressing the problem of microplastics, listed on Product Hunt. Details are limited but it appears to be an environmental/cleantech solution.

Hyphen Global is a climate-tech product on Product Hunt that provides real-time quantification of greenhouse gas removals.

Landler is an operating system platform for natural capital management, developed by The Landbanking Group to facilitate environmental and land resource management.

MIT researchers developed VisiPrint, an AI-powered preview tool that helps 3D printing users visualize the aesthetic outcome (color, texture, gloss) of printed objects to reduce waste and improve design accuracy.

STADLER, a 230-year-old waste sorting technology company, has successfully embedded ChatGPT across its organization to enhance knowledge work productivity, achieving 30-40% time savings on documentation tasks and 2.5x faster drafting with >85% daily active usage across 125 custom GPTs.

MIT held a symposium on AI's societal impact where journalist Karen Hao and scholar Paola Ricaurte advocated for shifting away from massive-scale AI development toward smaller, task-specific models like AlphaFold that address specific problems with curated data and lower environmental costs.

John Deere is leveraging AI and machine learning to transform agriculture, with technologies like See & Spray using computer vision to reduce herbicide use by up to 70% and optimize farming practices at scale. The company discusses how AI is essential for serving millions of acres and trillions of plants globally while improving sustainability and profitability.

OpenAI and Microsoft have launched the Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship program to help local newsrooms adopt AI for business sustainability and innovation, with initial grants supporting five news organizations including the Chicago Sun-Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, and Philadelphia Inquirer.