10: Behind the scenes

Update: 2025-08-28

Description

In this bonus episode of the Code Green podcast, team members Dona, Meredith & Tammanna reflect on the season. They discuss the project's origins & their experiences of curating the podcast & newsletter. Their key takeaways include the need for nuance in discussions about AI's environmental impact, & questioning the focus on hyper-growth & efficiency. They emphasise the importance of situated understanding, participatory methods, & addressing the underexplored lens of abandoned technology infrastructure. Looking ahead, they express interest in exploring critical minerals & AI in India, & the intersection of AI & conservation.

Speakers

Dona Mathew is a lawyer with experience in public policy research & legislative drafting. At Digital Futures Lab, her work focuses on the ethical dimensions of data & AI, particularly at the nexus of climate action & legal institutions. She has been part of DFL’s AI & Climate Futures in Asia work with The Rockefeller Foundation. Since 2024, she has been leading research & coordinating efforts for the Code Green series.

Meredith Stinger is a qualitative researcher & curator. As a consultant with Quicksand, she has worked on projects exploring the social dimensions of technology design & implementation.

As a 2023 Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Fellow, she conducted ten months of ethnographic fieldwork in India, examining the social & political implications of the Aadhaar digital identity system. Her research has focused on exploring the materiality of digital systems & what these practices reveal about power, access & belonging in the digital age. She is particularly interested in the intersection between official technology policy discourse & lived experiences, focusing on how communities adapt to & navigate emerging digital systems.

Tammanna Aurora is a lawyer, researcher, & curator interested in spaces where questions of art, law, policy, climate, & technology meet. Her work explores the role of qualitative data, stories, & lived experience in decision-making within formal legal & scientific frameworks. She currently works on When The Earth Testifies with Agami, leads a fellowship for law students called SOCH, & is building temp.mag, an interdisciplinary research + media studio.

You can read the transcript for this episode ⁠here.

Show Notes

AI for Climate Action Innovation Factory

AI-for-climate grand challenge

Texas residents urged to take shorter showers

Mistral AI’s lifecycle analysis of AI models

UNDP in Asia & the Pacific launches ‘Una’

ICRISAT & Partners launch AI-powered climate advisory initiative to boost farmer resilience

AI supply chain threatens climate progress in East Asia

Responsible AI Strategy for the Environment

Climate Change & AI: Recommendations for Government

Three Mile Island Nuclear Reactor to restart to power Microsoft AI operations