CCC’s most recent Community Chat, Powering the Solution: Balancing Computing’s Energy Demands with its Contributions to Sustainability, took place on October 8, 2026. Moderated by CCC Council Executive Committee Member Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), the webinar also featured fellow authors of the recent Communications of the ACM (CACM) opinion article Balancing Sustainable Computing and Computing for Sustainability. Watch the Recording Here   Lightning talks from Chandra Krintz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Ana Radovanovic (Google), and Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology) were followed by a Q&A, joined by Elizabeth Bradley (University of Colorado Boulder), Siddharth Parida (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Masood Parvania (University of Utah), Eve Schooler (University […]

The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is pleased to announce the third webinar in the Community Chat series: Powering the Solution: Balancing Computing’s Energy Demands with Its Contributions to Sustainability. Join the authors of the recent Communications of the ACM (CACM) opinion article “Balancing Sustainable Computing and Computing for Sustainability” for a conversation about the two sides of computing’s relationship with the environment: the growing energy demands of technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and high performance computing (HPC), and the role those same technologies play in solving environmental problems. Guest Speakers Share Their Expertise In this one-hour Zoom webinar and Q&A moderated by article author Michela Taufer (University of Tennessee Knoxville), […]

“Balancing Sustainable Computing and Computing for Sustainability,” a new Communications of the ACM (CACM) opinion article, asks us to look at the issue of sustainability in computing research from two complementary perspectives: sustainable computing and computing for sustainability. The article was instigated and authored by a group of Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council Members passionate about the topic, who brought together experts across disciplines to explore how computing can both mitigate its effects on the environment and support sustainability work. The complete list of authors includes:  Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Knoxville Chandra Krintz, UC Santa Barbara Elizabeth Bradley, University of Colorado Boulder Michael Crowley, University of Southern California Tevfik […]

Last week, the National Science Foundation (NSF) released an early version of their final report for their workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability. One of CCC’s council members Chandra Krintz was on the steering committee, where she brought her expertise in fostering collaboration on computing foundations for sustainability and climate resilience to the workshop.  According to Krintz, the committee was charged with designing the workshop, identifying key participants, reviewing participant submissions, and running the workshop in Washington DC this past April.   “Together, workshop participants helped to identify new research, multidisciplinary collaboration, and investment opportunities for this increasingly important area of computing research.  The event also helped grow the CCC LinkedIn […]

In another installment of CCC’s Weekly Computing News, we are sharing an exciting funding opportunity for climate change adaptation and mitigation. NSF, NEH and partner funding agencies announce the winners of the Canada-led 2023 International Joint Initiative for Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation competition On June 3, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), along with several international funding agencies, announced the recipients of the International Joint Initiative for Research on Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.  This initiative, managed by Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF), awarded nearly $26 million to fund 11 collaborative research projects. NSF contributed approximately $6 million, […]

The NSF Workshop on Sustainable Computing for Sustainability has just released a virtual registration link to attend the workshop remotely on April 16-17, 2024. This workshop, which the CCC’s own Chandra Krintz is on the steering committee for, seeks to identify open challenges in how to harness computing to tackle sustainability problems, and in ensuring that computing accounts for sustainability in its own development and operation.   Due to space limitations, the workshop will follow a hybrid format with approximately 100 in-person attendees at the National Science Foundation’s headquarters in Alexandria, VA, and remote participation feasible through a zoom webinar. Please use this link to register to attend remotely. The deadline […]