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Mike McClelland proposes a 1p charge for messages in response to an article on the downside of Ireland’s datacentre boom. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson

It was the decade of austerity, fracking, populism and internet lies. But not everything about the 2010s was terrible

Industry funds ‘grassroots’ resistance to tougher rules while touting green credentials

Guardian Australia looks back at some advertising efforts of 2015 that met with stinging criticism online, including Woolworths’ ill-fated Anzac Day campaign

Greenpeace singles out Amazon Web Services and Twitter for siting data centres in coal areas and failing to reveal energy useThe rise of social media is being powered by dirty forms of energy such as coal, a report from the...

Living in America, it’s easy to forget that developing countries have a harder time providing the many things we take granted such as water, electricity, and education...

Force replied to tweet asking about undercover police sleeping with Balcombe protesters with a smileyThe police force responsible for overseeing the recent anti-fracking campaign in Sussex has apologised after an "inappropriate"...

The UK jobs market has changed incredibly over the past 100 years; even the past decade has seen a proliferation of new roles. We look at a selection and ask whether your role existed 10 years agoCan you imagine a world without...

If you are a scientist, designer, filmmaker, or any kind of environmentally-conscious creative person who is tired of zipped-up and dull sustainability science, then Earth 2 Hub might be the solution you’ve been looking...

How can journalism meet the challenges of the internet age? Former reporter Joris Luyendijk is looking for new ways to tell storiesMany journalists have mid-life crises when they begin to doubt their capacity to capture the...

Jae Kim has created a next generation e-reader concept called The Page that is as thin as a sheet of paper, can fold up and has an e-ink screen that can display text and images...

Here is a taste of the first day at TED including living buildings, EU policy as poetry and a way to bridge the cultural divide between scientists and artists