Energy efficient color palette ideas - Green the web
Did you know that there are energy efficient color palettes? Colors you can save battery life with. It is true! At least when your user’s device is an OLED display.
Underengineer Your Websites (with Adrian Roselli) | Some Antics
Oftentimes, the most accessible, interoperable experiences are the ones that require the most minimal engineer — and few know that better than Adrian Roselli...
Revealed: The climate cost of 'disposable smartphones'
Extending the lifespan of smartphones and other electronics by just one year would save the EU as much carbon emissions as taking 2 million cars off the roads annually, a new study finds.
In continuing the Sustainable Systems series, Anne Currie focuses on architectural choices and sustainability and offers points for those who want to be carbon aware and follow principles of green software engineering in practice.
Tradeoff Between Server Utilization and Energy Efficiency
What should you monitor as you try to increase the hardware efficiency of software? To find out, read this first article by Srinivasan Rakhunathan in the Sustainable Systems column.
Software Carbon Intensity: Crafting a Standard | GSF
The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard gives an actionable approach to software designers, developers and deployers to measure the carbon impacts of their systems.
« Si notre smartphone avait une conscience, est-ce qu’on le remplacerait aussi facilement ? »
Trois questions à Julia Jean et Lucie Robert, respectivement directrice créative et designer en cheffe au sein du studio Naraven Games. Leur jeu vidéo BACKFIREWALL_, bientôt disponible sur ordinateur et console, raconte l’histoire d’un système d’exploitation refusant d’être mis à jour.
In my book, Sustainable Web Design, I tell the story of how the junk food industry addressed the growing problem of litter in the 1970’s. As companies such as Coca-Cola increasingly promoted products sold in disposable packaging, towns and cities became cursed by litter on their streets. In one of the greatest public relations successes of modern history, these companies banded together to launch a campaign to convince the public that the litter on the streets was not the fault of the companies whose logos were printed on it, but of the ordinary people who had dropped it. They founded a puppet environmental organisation called
Microsoft And AI2 Partnered With The Green Software Foundation On Tools For Building Carbon-Aware Applications
For a long time, scientists have been concerned about the ever-increasing carbon footprint. The World Meteorological Organization recently stated that the global temperature has a 50% chance of topping 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next five years. Scientists believe this should be the upper limit to avoid catastrophic climate change. They believe that even if humans attain this long-term threshold, human quality of life and other supporting ecosystems will suffer enormous upheavals. Sustainable AI is thought to have the ability to minimize carbon emissions. This can be accomplished by incorporating renewable energy into the power grid or lowering the cost
Digital sufficiency: conceptual considerations for ICTs on a finite planet
Annals of Telecommunications - ICT hold significant potential to increase resource and energy efficiencies and contribute to a circular economy. Yet unresolved is whether the aggregated net effect...
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Introducing fuite: a tool for finding memory leaks in web apps
Debugging memory leaks in web apps is hard. The tooling exists, but it’s complicated, cumbersome, and often doesn’t answer the simple question: Why is my app leaking memory? Because of …
Thirsty Data Centers Are Making Hot Summers Even Scarier
With drought spreading around the globe, battles over water are erupting between AI companies seeking more computing power and communities where their facilities are located.