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Starting a funding garden
At the Green Web Foundation, we’re funded by a combination of supporters through out partnership program, and grant funding for specific projects. These kind of grant funding has paid for us to open source the platform and the datasets from the green web foundation, build a degree of environmental intelligence into existing tools, and pay […]
The Pedagogy of Sustainable Web Design (part 2)
by Denis F. Doyon, Samadhi Web Design Read part 1 Green webhosting Large data centers also lease space to hosting providers, companies like GoDaddy, BlueHost and HostGator that provide server space and support for both large and small websites. Of the top 20 webhosts globally (Global Web Hosting Market Share October 2019), only two — […]
The Pedagogy of Sustainable Web Design (part 1)
by Denis F. Doyon, Samadhi Web Design Like many people, I spend a lot of time on the internet. But as a website designer, it’s my job to encourage other people to spend time on the internet (or at least, on my clients’ websites). I’ve begun to wonder how my work contributes to the climate […]
Notes for Greening Internet governance at EURODig
AT the Green Web Foundation, we’ve been building open source software and publishing open data, to help with working towards a more sustainable web, but there are other levers for change too. Here’s Chris Adams, with our contribution to EURODig – the European Dialogue on Internet Governance, and the panel Towards A Sustainable Governance of […]
Searching the green web with Searx
We all search the web. And as we become more aware about our climate changing, we want to use greener products and services too. But how can you find them? We recently finished a project with the open source privacy protecting search engine Searx, to turn it into a green open source privacy protecting search […]
How to build a more sustainable web with a little help from sitespeed.io
For the last few weeks, we’ve been working on a project with the folks who build sitespeed.io, a popular open source web performance tool. We’ve given it the ability to work out the carbon footprint of any website, and provide tailored guidance to measurably make any website greener. Interested? Read on for more. We know […]
Open data for a greener web
We’ve offered an API for checking domains against the Green Web API for a few years. Now we’ve started publishing open datasets around the green web, that you can use in your own products and services, or for your own analysis. Read on to learn more, about why. Referring back to our map from an […]
Packets: yet another lever for a low carbon internet
In earlier posts we spoke about Platform, and Process as levers for a lower carbon internet. In this post we’ll talk about the impact of sending data over the wire, and what we might to there, if we took the science around our changing climate seriously. So far, in this series of posts we’ve been […]
Place, Policy, Procurement – more levers for a lower carbon internet
In an earlier post, we spoke about Provisioning and Providers, in our mental model for effecting change, if we want a lower carbon internet. In this post, we continue describing the model, and explore the elements of Process. In the previous post, we introduced the Packets, Platform, Process model, which at a high level refers […]