Together towards a green web

Is your website hosted green?

One day the Internet will run entirely on renewable energy. The Green Web Foundation believes that day should be within reach, and develops tools to speed up the transition towards a green Internet

501.345.271 checks performed to date,
13% is powered by renewable energy

Percentage green domains

Mission:
Together we make 80% of the internet green in 5 years!

Changing the world? Start with an app!

Seven years ago, we started working with a small team on a project that aimed to make the kind of energy visible that powers the Internet: green for renewables, grey for fossil-fuel powered.

Today, The Green Web Apps show in your browser the source of energy of every site you visit. To date, Internet users have performed well over half a billion checks with the apps, monitoring the emergence of The Green Web.

Are you looking for a green hoster?

Although the Internet is growing at a manic pace, the market share of green hosters is growing faster! This means that they are slowly but steadily creating The Green Web. Are you looking for a green hoster too?

Check our directory

Are you a green developer &
can you handle an API?

Your site or application is welcome to tap into The Green Web Feed too! See why sites like Ecohostreviews, Ecograder and Dutch hosting comparison site HostingVergelijken have chosen to do so.
Use our API

Are you a green hoster or do you want to be green?

Hosting companies worldwide that power their operations by renewables are welcome to add their details to the open & free Green Hosting Directory. The Green Web Apps will label all your customers’ sites green, making them even more happy customers!
Partner up

Do you want to check your search results instantly? We invented a clever app just for that.

The Green Web App will show you whether a website is hosted green or grey whenever you visit it. But there is more: it also works while performing Internet searches on Google, Bing or Yahoo. All results are labeled real-time on your screen, so even before visiting a site you will know whether it is hosted green or not! Moreover, all links to green sites on webpages that you visit will be underlined subtly by a thin green dashed line.

Check out the app

News

Contracted workers clean Heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Project, owned by NRG Energy, Bright Source Energy,Bechtel and Google

Announcing the Green Web Fellowship programme

We’re over the moon to share news with you about a new project made possible by a grant from the Internet Society Foundation. We’re starting our first funded Green Web Fellowship program, exploring the role climate justice plays in being a responsible technologist.

A way to think about the environmental impact of streaming services like Netflix

Because we’ve been talking about sustainability and the internet for while, every so often, we get people asking us about the environmental impact of streaming services like Netflix and so on. Sometimes, these end up as interviews, and this week I ended up being interviewed on a podcast show run by a well known national […]

Introducing the Green Web Foundation Partner API

For the last ten years we’ve been building and maintaining a database of which websites on the internet run on green energy, and when they switched, then making this data freely available to all. With some help from the nice folks at SIDN, we’ve built a new API, to allow partners to programmatically update this […]

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