Build Sustainable Websites
Medium Effort
Variable Cost
High Impact
Ongoing
Sustainable web design is an approach to designing web services that puts people and planet first. It delivers digital products and services that are clean, efficient, open, honest, regenerative, and resilient.
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Why It Matters
The internet produces about 3.8% of global carbon emissions, which are rising to keep up with increasing demand. As we build more data centers (the backbone of the internet), we need more and more electricity to power all the servers that live in those data centers. Most of this is from data-intensive tasks such as video streaming.
Resources
Title | Description | Creator |
|---|---|---|
| Climate Designers Resource Library | Get the resources and knowledge to start taking climate action! | Climate Designers |
| How Sustainable Web Design Can Help Fight Climate Change | Wired | |
| The Green Web Foundation | For the last decade, the Green Web Foundation has built open decision-making infrastructure to track and enable the transition to a fossil-free internet, including stewarding an open dataset to check if websites run on renewable energy, accessed over 2 billion times. | |
| Green Design | Green Design is a resource of guidelines and best practices for a low-tech, energy efficient, and environmentally sustainable internet. | Rachel He |
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