Envirotechnical

Let's fight climate change one byte at a time :)

Resources for a sustainable web

Get started on sustainable web development and design with our resources and get a glance at how even the smallest commitment can have a solid take into the fight to climate change.

Karmametrix

A Platform to measure your websites and webapps carbon footprint. There are also other similar platforms if you want to compare different results.

Actually Dark Mode is saving the planet

We'll do some quick napkin math, and get a very rough idea of what kind of energy savings we're dealing with here — we'll use an iPhone as an example.

Sustainable Web Design - Calculating Digital Emissions

Calculating greenhouse gas emissions from digital products and services is not easy, that's why we can learn from some really great professionals how to be more sustainable

Can dark mode save battery life?

CAN DARK MODE SAVE BATTERY LIFE AND HUMAN CIVILZATION?

The internet is dirty. Data transfer requires electricity, which creates carbon emissions — and this leads to climate change. The Low Impact website reduces data transfer by up to 70% in comparison to our regular website.

Principles of Green Software Design

Green Software Engineering is an emerging discipline at the intersection of climate science, software practices and architecture, electricity markets, hardware and data center design.

From Cloud computing to Cloud pollution

The environmental impact of internet use: an analysis of consumers' self-attribution of responsibility

Carbon literacy

The carbon cost of an email. A simple email seems nothing damaging but think about the entire world sending millions of emails every minute.

The state of renewables for Data Centers

An article that explains where Data Centers are in their fight to climate change

Environmental impact of IT: desktops, laptops and screens

How we are reducing IT waste, and steps you can take to reduce your carbon footprint

Mailchimp for Wordpress story

How a simple plugin reduced CO2 emissions in the world. Can 20kb of less code save thousands of kilos of emissions? Apparently yes.

Now entering the Webthropocene — how to minimize your website's carbon footprint

A Medium article to help us understand better our carbon footprint using internet

Javascript performance, beyond bundle size

A very interesting read from Nolan Lawson about Javascript performance, bundle sizes and more

When smaller is better

A take on how web developers can participate in saving the planet. In this ever fast world the development community is using always new tools but we don't always think about the actual cost of this usage

Internet Speed test worldwide by Ookla

A report about internet speed and its growth

Page Weight report from httparchive.org

A report about page weight

Carbon footprint cheatsheet

Generic and useful knowledge about carbon footprint from many sources

Join the fight against Climate Change

There are many amazing opportunities to sponsor incredible no profits around the world. If you have the chance to give something, why not reach out to them? Are you a no profit organization that would like to be listed on this website? Just send a message to 404answernotfound.public@gmail.com or contact me directly on LinkedIn or Twitter!

Join the change :)

A human peacefully fighting for climate change