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We need a fossil free internet by 2030 – it will save lives, save gigatonnes of carbon being emitted into the sky, and it will… Read More »Understanding trends at the layer below the internet stack

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… Read More »A way to think about the environmental impact of streaming services like Netflix

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… Read More »Introducing the Green Web Foundation Partner API

This week, is #letsgreentheweb week – part of a campaign organised by ClimateAction.tech, to raise awareness about environmental impact of digital services we rely on,… Read More »Tracking progress on greening the web

We covered a lot of ground in an event titled “Digital and Green Transition: Will Artificial Intelligence foster or hamper the Green New Deal?”. Here are our key takeaway points from the panel discussion, and link for further research.

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… Read More »Starting a funding garden

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… Read More »Searching the green web with Searx

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… Read More »How to build a more sustainable web with a little help from sitespeed.io

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… Read More »Open data for a greener web

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… Read More »Packets: yet another lever for a low 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… Read More »Place, Policy, Procurement – more levers for a lower carbon internet

In this piece I’ll introduce you to a mental model you can use, if you are building digital products (like websites or apps), and you… Read More »Provisioning and Providers – two levers for a lower carbon internet