Sursiendo, along with May First Movement Technology, is researching action strategies to embed environmental sustainability into autonomous internet communications infrastructure projects. Drawing on participatory methodology based on conversations with autonomous and community-based providers, this report documents current sustainable practices already in place, key obstacles, future projections and speculative ideas toward environmental justice. Groups emphasize shared infrastructures, hardware longevity, free software, and collective approaches. Challenges include dominant narratives about “unlimited resources,” limited time to experiment, centralized infrastructures and lack of repairable hardware. The report highlights the importance of collaborative action and radical imagination to create technologies more committed to the protection of life.
On July 17, 2025 May First and Sursiendo presented the report Actions for Environmental Justice from Autonomous and Community-based Tech Infrastructures.
During the webinar we briefly shared the main findings of the research (see the presentation slides and we talked with some of the participating groups. MariaLab (Brazil), Sutty (Argentina) and Cloud68 (Estonia) shared their vision, actions and challenges in implementing changes in the servers and technology services they maintain.
It was a rich and inspiring conversation that showed not only the willingness of the participating groups but also the interest in deepening the work initiated from this research to promote collective actions towards more sustainable practices.