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Public Cloud for Public Good (PC4PG)

Aerin Boothpublicgood.cloud

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place.


Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably.


This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Advocate based in the UK.


We'll be talking to industry leaders about their experiences, the interesting things that they're working on and their tips and tricks on how we can live, code and build applications & services more sustainably.


We will also be donating money to charitable causes, shinning a light on companies that are helping the world to become a better place and we'll also give you practical advice on how you can contribute to fighting climate change.


To get in touch with the show and to sign up to our newsletter you can visit our website: https://publicgood.cloud


If you would be interested in speaking on the podcast then please email aaron@embue.co.uk


This podcast is brought to you by Cloud Sustainably, a consultancy helping businesses get a handle on their cloud spending and reduce their environmental impact on the world at the same time.


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Episodes

The Infinite Cloud is a Fantasy - Steven Gonzalez

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aerin is joined by Steven Gonzalez, a self-proclaimed anthropologist of data centres and cloud storage. Steven also wrote an article for WIRE...

Jan 27, 20231 hr 2 min

Architecting for Sustainability - Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aerin is joined by Kate Hargrove & Michael Fox from Onix, a Cloud Consultancy company and networking organisation. The focus of the conve...

Dec 05, 202252 min

Fighting Fascists in Tech - Liz Fong Jones

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Liz Fong Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb. Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that reveals the truth about how users experienc...

Nov 17, 20221 hr 10 min

Who has the Keys to AWS Optimisation? - Steph Gooch

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Stephanie Gooch who is a commercial architect in the AWS OPTICS team. They serve as subject matter experts guiding custome...

Nov 02, 202254 min

Making your business carbon neutral - Michael Dowdon

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aerin Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Michael Dowdon, international keynote speaker, CEO of Andromeda Galactic Solutions, and President of FlexePark. As a leade...

Oct 19, 202237 min

Is it time to rage against the cloud? Gerry McGovern & Victoria Harvey

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aerin is joined by two guests, Gerry McGovern, author of the book World Wide Waste as well as Victoria Harvey, co-founder at Clima. Gerry is ...

Oct 06, 202250 min

Passion is the Fuel of our Energy - Jeremy Lasman

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Jeremy Lasman, Founder and CEO of Universal Imagination Inc, a multidimensional research and development organisation. The...

Sep 21, 202242 min

Will being "Open" save the world? - Amanda Brock

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK. OpenUK is the UK Organisation for the business of Open Technology being open source software,...

Sep 08, 202238 min

Making the world a better place through NFTs - Komards NFTs

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Komard from Komard’s NFTs. First and foremost Komard’s NFTs are a pair of best friends who want to help make the world a b...

Aug 24, 202241 min

Doing Good Things with the Cloud - Christian Bonzelet

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Christian Bonzelet, AWS Solution Architect for the Bundesliga, the top division of professional football in Germany. Aaron...

Aug 10, 202244 min

Principal Cloud Economist and Jujitsu Bad-ass! - Tim Banks

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Tim Banks, Principal Cloud Economist for The Duckbill Group, a team of cloud cost management experts. Tim’s initial journe...

Jul 27, 202258 min

Mapping Out A Sustainable Future - Simon Wardley

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Simon Wardley, a British researcher and former CEO best known for the creation of Wardley Mapping. A Wardley map is a map ...

Jul 13, 202257 min

Does anyone actually give a fuck about Climate Change? - Matthew Todd

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Matthew Todd, multi-award-winning writer, broadcaster and sometime performer who edited the UK’s best-selling gay magazine...

Jun 29, 20221 hr 4 min

The Unfairer Climate - Rhiannon Lawson

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Rhiannon Lawson who is currently working with the Welsh government as the Head of Standards for the Centre of Digital Publ...

Jun 15, 202240 min

Measuring the Carbon Footprint of our Digital Economy - Max Schulze

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Max Schulze, Founder of the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance and expert on Software Architecture, Technology &a...

Jun 01, 202249 min

Diverse & Inclusive Businesses are More Sustainable - Arfah Farooq

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Arfah Farooq, Community Builder, Angel Investor, Facilitator, Diversity & Inclusion Expert and Keynote Speaker. Today ...

May 17, 202249 min

Can Small Businesses Avoid Surveillance Capitalism? - Dave Smyth

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Dave Smyth, ethical web designer creating results focused websites. He runs a studio called Scruples with his business par...

May 05, 202241 min

Exploring Cloud Sustainability & Digital Pollution with Mark Butcher

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good, a bi-weekly newsletter and podcast focused on making the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. This week Aaron is joined by Mark Butcher, Director of Posetiv Cloud Ltd and organiser of the UK FinOps community. Mark is a data centre and cloud spec...

Apr 20, 202238 min

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good

Welcome to Public Cloud for Public Good a newsletter and podcast talking about Cloud Sustainability & how we can use cloud services to make the world a better place. Whether that’s making peoples lives better, building services in the public & third sectors or thinking about coding more sustainably. This podcast is hosted by Aaron Booth, a Cloud Sustainability Consultant based in the UK. We'll be talking to industry leaders about their experiences, the interesting things that they're wor...

Apr 20, 20223 min
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