We are at a critical threshold in our computational futures. Investment in artificial intelligence (AI) is booming, and its application across society is accelerating at an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile, we are crossing the boundaries of several life-supporting planetary systems. Devastating heat waves, storms, fires and floods remind us of how human activity impacts all life on this planet.

In this reality, a blossoming community is challenging the tech solutionist approaches from our political and industry leaders and advocates for actual change to ensure that our technologies stay within planetary boundaries. The Green Screen coalition is announcing a series of brown bag sessions to spotlight this work. We hope these sessions provide opportunities to discuss key topics on the nexus of environment and tech with experts, draw inspiration from their work, learn in the open and build pathways to sustainable futures.

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Upcoming brown bag sessions:

Extraction in the majority world: AI infrastructure and the raw materials that power it

July 7, 4 – 5 PM CET

On Zoom – Register now

In this session, Paz Peña will present on the work done together with the Decolonial Feminist Coalition of Latin American activists on Digital and Environmental Justice, with a particular focus on the environmental impact of data centers in the Latin American context, and Ahmed Isamaldin will discuss the organizing work he does with the Center for Environmental and Social Studies (CESS) on mining in Sudan.

About the speakers

Paz Peña is an independent senior consultant specializing in technology, gender, and social justice. She is a 2025 Mozilla Senior Fellow, currently researching the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence data centers in Latin America. In 2021, she founded the Latin American Institute of Terraforming to explore the connection between technology and the ecological crisis from a feminist perspective. Paz is the author of “Tecnologías para un planeta en llamas” (Paidós, 2023), an introductory book that examines the role of techno-capitalism in the climate and ecological crisis. She is also a journalist and holds degrees in social communication and gender studies. Paz is based in Santiago, Chile.

Ahmed Isamaldin is a multi-disciplinary artist and researcher from Khartoum, Sudan. He holds a degree in physics from the University of Khartoum and has studied graphic design, photography in Cairo, and visual communication at Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. His work centers on themes of immigration, psychology, revolutionary processes, decolonial design, and technology. He is currently leading the communication team at the Center for Environmental and Social Studies (CESS) in Sudan.