Sustainable Tech: How to Make a Lasting Impact at Work
summary
A designer recounts building a Slack community (Climate Action Tech) then converting that momentum into Green Design principles and a getting started backpack of concrete actions: internal presentations, workshops and hackathons that win colleagues over. An attempted product scorecard stalls because Microsoft teams lack linked carbon data, so focus shifts to awareness and lightweight fixes: simplify UX, reduce file sizes, set resource caps, and adopt carbon‑aware tools (example: Lou’s carbon‑aware OS and Branch magazine that adapts to grid renewables). A 25% adoption rule is cited as the tipping point for norms.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Sustainable tech in design
- 1:30Climate journey at work
- 3:18Climate Action Tech mission
- 5:25Leverage for change
- 7:56Getting started backpack
- 11:28Green Design: Think bigger
- 13:38Green Design: Build better
- 16:10Next steps and resources
- 17:13Transformed tech industry
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