The Green Web Foundation publishes a variety of reports, articles and position papers on topics relating to digital sustainability and a just, sustainable internet.
Branch Magazine
An online magazine by and for people who dream of a just and sustainable internet
Green Web Foundation funds, edits and publishes Branch magazine, a collaboration with the climateAction.tech community. Branch magazine brings together writing, and other creative output from developers, designers, campaigners, and policy makers, to act as a snapshot of what’s important and interesting at the intersection of climate and tech.
ReportS
Thinking about using AI? Here’s what you can and (probably) can’t change about its environmental impact (2024)
Intended to help people with a responsibility for AI projects understand the considerations around their direct negative environmental impact arising from AI. We cover what to be mindful of, what mitigating strategies are available today and the limitations.
A Green Handbook for Community Tech Practitioners (2023)
Explores the potential of community tech and digital sustainability through case studies, hands-on tools, and models for understanding sustainability. Commissioned by Promising Trouble and Power to Change.
Towards a Fossil-Free Internet: The Fog Of Enactment (2022)
This research report explore paths to decarbonize the internet while working towards digital ecosystems that are open, diverse and in service to people’s needs. Commissioned by us, written by leading independent researchers in digital sustainability, Gauthier Roussilhe.
Position papers and briefings
In November 2022, we worked with academics and industry specialists on our first paper, Extending IPv6 to support Carbon Aware Networking, as a response to the Internet Architecture Board’s workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022.
It was accepted, and the ideas discussed in the workshops are feeding into our Green Web Studio innovation projects.