Digital Ecology: Can you Mitigate The Carbon Footprint of Websites
summary
Claims concrete savings and tools: the ICT sector emits about 4% of global greenhouse gases, storing 100 ZB could emit ~200 billion tons CO2/year, and a page with 10k monthly views costs ~1.8 g CO2 per visit (≈216 kg/year, like driving 900 km). Practical fixes include deleting emails (one stored email ≈19 g CO2), using SVG and WebP images and woff/woff2 fonts, enabling lazy loading and dark mode, choosing low‑PUE green hosts (see Green Web Foundation), and running the Website Carbon Calculator and the open‑source echolint linter (claims up to 88% site reduction).
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:47Data Collection
- 1:17Data Transfer
- 2:21What can you do
- 4:20Browsing
- 5:11Devices
- 6:06Websites
- 7:00Website Carbon Calculator
- 9:28How to create more sustainable websites
- 10:06The programming language
- 11:06Resources
- 12:37Formats
- 14:04Color choice
- 14:35Hosting
- 16:09Use Your Data
- 16:32Mitigate The Carbon Footprint
- 17:17EchoLink
- 18:44Features
- 20:48Getting started
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