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Last updated: Mar 28, 2022

Creating low-carbon images for the web

Images are the most popular resource type. The tendency is that more and more images are used on websites, and hence they are becoming heavier.

The Unreasonable Ecological Cost of #CryptoArt

The Low Impact Website | Organic Basics

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We've had roughly 25,000+ unique visitors since "going live" about five days ago. Cloudflare has served up some 60gb of data, which means folks are clicking through into the images (by design, not much data is loaded until you start viewing images in detail).

kentdebruin.com

"Please consider the environment before printing this email". You have probably seen this line at the bottom of an email before. By now it's widely known that you should pay attention to what you print to reduce your carbon footprint. But how much does it cost sending this email in the first place?

Frank Chimero · The Web's Grain

Can I play something for you? Trust me: it's worth it. Oh, and while you're listening, pay attention to your chest. You may feel a growing warmth, kind of like the firey trickle after a shot of whiskey. All right, here we go: Wasn't that great?

Technology only adds more—it is never this or that; it is always this and that. A quick example from my life: Twitter didn’t replace Facebook. The iPad didn’t replace my phone. My phone didn’t replace my TV. Now, I watch YouTube on my iPad, toss the video up to my TV, while checking Twitter and Facebook on my phone. It’s a little constellation of technology. But I keep asking myself: how many more things can I juggle? And for how long?

LAX → CDG = 3.5tCO₂e

The emissions for a plane seat flying to CDG from LAX will be tons of CO₂. Resulting in the loss of m² of arctic summer ice. Explore how this trip compares to the efforts you make to reduce your carbon footprint.

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter” https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com/

Sustainable Web Manifesto

Sign the manifesto and declare your commitment to create a greener web!

Your Netflix binging isn't killing the planet-yet

#ShowYourStripes

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Design Is the Problem - Rosenfeld Media

Nathan Shedroff is the executive director of Seed Vault Ltd, a Singapore-based platform building an independent, trusted bot economy on the blockchain. He manages a cadre of experienced bot enthusiasts and technologists developing new ways to ensure user privacy, shepherd the shift to this new paradigm, create ways for people to profit from their creative work, and save the business sector from its most critical threat ever.

Opinion: Fintech should be eco-friendly

Emerging financial technologies promise to redefine not just everyday banking, but the nature of money itself. They could provide banking services to the two billion adults worldwide who are currently "unbanked" and contribute to the eradication of extreme poverty by 2030.

The Most Important Feature Amazon is Not Launching

Recently, a friend of mine posted on Facebook warning others not to buy a particular brand of headphones, since his pair just broke. Another friend commented saying that he had the same model and his broke after just 1 year. Two other people chimed in to say that theirs only worked for 3 months.

Website Response Times

Users really care about speed in interaction design. In 1997, I wrote a column called " The Need for Speed," pointing out how much users hated slow-loading web pages. Back then, big images were the main cause of response-time delays, and our guideline recommended that you keep images small.

How liking something on Facebook can damage the planet

The amount of energy consumed by the world's data centres - the repositories for billions of gigabytes of information - will treble in the next decade, putting an enormous strain on energy supplies and dealing a hefty blow to efforts to contain global warming, experts say.

New Features on Kickstarter Encourage Creators to Think Green

Here at Kickstarter we're in a unique position when it comes to environmental awareness. Our creators may have a vision for a new piece of technology or design, but they may not know a lot about manufacturing, much less environmentally responsible manufacturing. We can help get them thinking about sustainability at exactly the right time.

Software is polluting the world Daniel Harvey Mar 18 5:20-min read Hello from 20 Minutes into the Future. Tonight we’ll be looking at the climate cost of big tech. It’s worse than you think. Way back in 2011 venture capitalist Marc Andressen famously said “software is eating the world.” Being a VC “world” of course means “global financial markets.” He smartly pointed out how the emergent tech companies had better valuations / share price / profit margins / etc. than non-tech companies. Years earlier in 2006 mathematician Clive Humby said “The world's most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” By that he meant it’s valuable but it has to be mined, refined, and changed into something actionable before it leads to profit. If you work in tech you’re probably sick to death of hearing “data is the new oil.” Sadly they’re both right but in ways they didn’t mean. It’s more accurate to paraphrase Andressen and say that software is polluting the world. Because data is like oil in that it powers the world and comes at terrible climate costs. Not a subscriber yet? 20 Minutes into the Future is 100% ad free and always will be. Sign up for weekly commentary & related links to help you dig deeper into big tech behaving badly.

The environmental cost of keeping mail and files online keeps rising | The Japan Times

Everyone has seen warnings at the end of email saying, "Please consider the environment before printing." But for those who care about global warming, you might want to consider not writing so many emails in the first place. More and more, people rely on their electronic mailbox as a life organizer.

Website Carbon Calculator | How is your website impacting the planet?

The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that's more than the entire United Kingdom. From data centres to transmission networks to the devices that we hold in our hands, it is all consuming electricity, and in turn producing carbon emissions.

YouTube videos have a huge carbon footprint. Here's a simple fix | CBC Radio

About this website | LOW←TECH MAGAZINE

Last updated: September 30, 2018 Low-tech Magazine questions the belief in technological progress, and highlights the potential of past knowledge and technologies for designing a sustainable society. Because a web redesign was long overdue - and because we try to practice what we preach - we decided to build a low-tech website that meets our needs and abides by our principles.