The Digital Sustainability Workshop
Energy consumption linked to digital technology is rising by approximately 9% each year. If everyone adopted more responsible and sustainable digital habits, we could reduce this to just 1.5% per year.
Source: The Shift Project, titled “Lean ICT: Towards Digital Sobriety”
Who is the Digital Collage workshop for?
DecarbonEaser’s Digital Collage workshop is for ESG/leadership teams, or anyone wishing to understand the impact of their digital technology habits. The interactive workshop presents action plans and encourages open dialogue.
This session offers a valuable team-building exercise, complementing broader sustainability training within your corporate social responsibility program. The workshop can form a cornerstone of your organisation’s digital policy. It is solutions-focused and encourages open dialogue and reflection on the business risks and dependencies posed by your organisation’s use of digital technology.
How does the Digital Collage work?
Following the Climate Fresk model, Digital Collage allows participants to explore digital technology’s true impact through a card-based game and group discussions. In this three-hour interactive workshop, up to 14 participants arrange 61 cards to build a picture of our collective digital carbon footprints. They go on to reflect as a group on what they have learnt, before developing meaningful action plans that can be tailored to your organisation.
Activity Structure
- Understanding key implications of digital technology by playing a card-based game.
- Participants arrange 61 cards to illustrate upstream and downstream digital impacts.
- Participants process what they’ve learnt in a group discussion. ESG/leadership teams can unpack the business risks and dependencies connected digital technology use, with space for participants’ personal reflections.
- The workshop concludes in a solutions-focused discussion. Participants explore ways to lower their organisation’s digital carbon footprint and adjust ESG policy around digital technology use.
Workshop conditions
- 4 to 7 people per table – 2 tables per facilitator.
- No limit to the number of facilitators available.
- Duration: 3 hours minimum
Key Modules covered
- The digital world may seem invisible, but it has real-world impacts
- Digital services have a high environmental impact that is growing rapidly
- Each digital device requires significant mineral extraction from the ground
- Recycling is not effective and is only part of the solution
- Fossil fuel and mineral resources are limited
- The rebound effect means we can’t rely on technology to solve its own impacts.
The 4 pillars of our Digital Collage Workshop
Key Figures About Digital impacts
16%
The proportion of recycled e-waste on earth.
100K+
Participants attended a Digital Collage workshop so far.
3% to 12%
Increase in carbon emission by 2030 from digital activity.
Key takeaways for businesses
Face Your Digital Carbon Footprint
Digital Collage explains the full ESG implications of your organisation’s digital technology use.
Build a Digital Sustainability Plan
Create a digital sustainability plan tailored to your business to incorporate into broader ESG strategy.
Be a Sustainability Leader
Tackle your organisation’s digital technology use and become a sustainability leader in your industry.
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FAQ
How do you create a Digital Collage?
In the first stage of the workshop teams of four to seven members work together to draw connections between 61 cards to form the ‘Collage’. They depict their interpretations, absorb essential messages and ultimately select a title. This process fosters understanding and brings professional teams closer together.
Do you have to complete Climate Fresk to participate in a Digital Collage workshop?
No, you don’t, but we recommend participants attend a Climate Fresk workshop first, to gain a broad overview of climate change and how digital technology’s emissions fit into the broader picture. Completing Climate Fresk is a requirement if you wish to become a Digital Collage facilitator.
What makes the Digital Collage Workshop unique?
The Digital Collage workshop is an engaging and collaborative half-day workshop, following the Climate Fresk model. Its goal is to outline key solutions for a more sustainable digital sector. It harnesses participant-led discussions to find positive, impactful solutions to tackling all our digital carbon footprints. There is no equivalent training session available.
What is a ‘digital carbon footprint’?
‘Digital carbon footprint’ describes the environmental impact of a person or entity’s internet and online activities. It includes all energy use that contributes to carbon emissions and environmental degradation, measured in total greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions.