A collection of Green IT related resources.
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- AI
- Principles of Green Software Engineering - The Principles of Green Software Engineering are a core set of competencies needed to define, build and run green sustainable software applications
- https://en.creativesforfuture.de
- https://circularcomputing.com
- https://nachhaltiges-webdesign.jetzt
- https://greensoftware.foundation
- https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check
- https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/browser-apps
- https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint
- https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com
- https://www.wholegraindigital.com/digitaldeclutter
- https://www.sustainablewebmanifesto.com
- Sustainable Web Design - Strategies and methodologies for a sustainable web
- https://climateaction.tech
- The carbon footprint of our digital lifestyles - Summary of the carbon impact of our digital lifestyle (scroll down for English version)
- lowwwcarbon.com - Examples of low-carbon web design and development
- greenit.fr - 🇫🇷 Green IT related articles (French only)
- Green Software Patterns - An online open-source database of software patterns reviewed and curated by the Green Software Foundation across a wide range of categories
- Sustainability Best Practices - A guide of sustainability best practices by Salesforce
- Sustainablewww - Good source of knowledge about sustainable web design
- Web Almanac by HTTP Archive - Sustainability Chapter - Many useful advices and data about web sustainability
- https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/09/reducing-carbon-emissions-on-web
- https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/09/21/web-developer-climate-change.html
- https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/09/22/developers-save-the-planet-the-solution.html
- https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/10/sustainable-web-development-strategies-organization
- Sustainability Pillar - AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Spotify on Green IT - Bringing the climate fight to your IDE
- The green IT revolution - A blueprint for CIOs to combat climate change
- Coden gegen den Klimawandel - 🇩🇪 My article about green coding in the Informatik Aktuell online magazine
- https://greentheweb.com/empfohlene-links
- https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/awesome-green-software
- References - Sustainable Web Design Community Group - Link list of the W3C Sustainability Group
- GitHub's Green Software Directory - A simple and easy-to-use resource that all developers can use to adopt green software tools
- Sustainable Web Design - Probably the first book about sustainable web design ever. Already a classic and a must-read for every Web Developer
- Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders - This book will walk you through the construction and implementation of a sustainable IT strategy and enable you to do your bit for the future of mankind. Highly recommended!
- https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste
- Green Code - Great ebook about Green Coding. Almost free for download (you need to pay with private information)
- Building Green Software - How will software development and operations have to change to meet the sustainability and green needs of the planet? And what does that imply for development organizations?
- Decarbonise Digital: Facts. Methods. Action. - Your guide to making digital part of the solution to the climate crisis.
- Green Software Engineering: Exploring Green Technology for Sustainable IT Solutions - Craft sustainable software and reduce digital environmental impact with practical strategies and principles
- iX Special 2022 -Green IT
- Windows Developer 03.2022 - Sustainable Programming
- PHP Magazin 4.2023 - Performance optimieren für Green PHP - 💲🇩🇪 First part of my article about Green Code in PHP (Paywall)
- PHP Magazin 5.2023 - Zeit zum Umdenken - 💲🇩🇪 Second part of my article about Green Code in PHP (Paywall)
- https://www.agora-energiewende.de
- https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory - An open service that makes it easier to choose greener hosting providers that better align with your organisational values.
- https://www.smard.de
- Energy-Charts - The site for interactive graphics displaying energy production and spot market prices, operated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
- Agorameter - Visualisation of several energy related data, like power generation and consumption or carbon intensity, for Germany
- Boavizta - Environmental impact database for manufacturers and devices
- Open Climate - Explore, download and contribute historic greenhouse gas emissions and climate progress data
- Klimadashboard.de - 🇩🇪 Die Daten und Fakten zur Klimakrise in Deutschland
- Electricity Maps - The leading resource for 24/7 electricity CO2 data
CO2 Signal - Free Carbon Intensity Data(now integrated into Electricity Maps)- WattTime - WattTime is a nonprofit that offers technology solutions that make it easy for anyone to achieve emissions reductions without compromising cost, comfort, and function.
- Climatiq - Emission factors database & API
- Carbon Intensity API (UK) - Carbon Intensity Forecast for the UK
- Energy-Charts API - API of energy-charts.info that e.g. provides actual and forecast data about the share of regeneratives in the electricity mix - for free!
- Website Carbon Calculator - The original Website Carbon calculator
- Ecograder - How green is your website?
- Digital Beacon - Calculate the environmental impact of a web page, see the breakdown and learn what measures can be taken to improve it
- https://ecoping.earth
- Cloud Carbon Footprint - Cloud Carbon Emissions Measurement and Analysis Tool
- https://cloud.withgoogle.com/region-picker
- https://www.climatiq.io/cloud-computing-carbon-emissions
- Gaia Generation - Provides you CO2e emissions transparency about your cloud services.
- GreenFrame - A SaaS solution that measures the CO2 emissions of any web application, regardless of its client and server technology
- Electricity Maps - Interactive Map for Electricity Maps data
- Climate Trace - Independent Greenhouse Gas Emissions Tracking. Using AI to gather emission data from thousands of sources.
- eco index - Website Carbon Footprint Calculator (French only)
- Datavizta - Visualisation tool for the Boavizta environmental impact database
- Boavizta cloud-scanner - Returns environmental impacts of your AWS Instances (EC2) usage
- CO2.js - CO2.js is an open-source JavaScript library that enables developers to estimate the emissions related to use of their apps, websites, and software
- Code Carbon - Estimate and track carbon emissions from your computer, quantify and analyze their impact.
- Green Metrics Tool - A free open-source tool to measure the energy and CO2 consumption of your software architecture
- Chat IPCC - Chat IPCC – AI grounded on the latest IPCC Report
- Sustainability Scanner - Validate AWS CloudFormation templates against AWS Well-Architected Sustainability Pillar best practices.
- Image Carbon - Calculate how much carbon a page is emitting from images.
- ecoCode - Reduce the environmental footprint of your software programs with SonarQube
- GreenElePHPant CodeBench - Code speed comparison tool for PHP
- Green Software for Practitioners - Learn the basic concepts a software practitioner needs to know to build, maintain and run greener applications. A course by the Green Software Foundation
- Eco-Tech: Decoding IT's Impact on a Sustainable Future - 💲🇩🇪🇬🇧 Immerse yourself in the world of information technology and discover how it can help shape a sustainable future.
- LinkedIn Learning: Green Coding by Carsten Windler - 💲🇩🇪 In this LinkedIn Learning course, Carsten Windler introduces you to various concepts relating to green coding.
- Green Software Foundation Newsletter - The latest information and resources to help you decarbonize your software.
- Curiously Green - The newsletter from Wholegrain Digital, the company of Tom Greenwood (Author of Sustainable Web Design)
- Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 - Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) 1.0 covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable.
- Technology Environmental Sustainability Standards v1.0 - A consistent set of sustainability metrics and KPIs relevant to the software, devices, and data that now dominate all aspects of business operations
- Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification - The Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification defines a methodology for calculating the rate of carbon emissions for a software system
- Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? - Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? A scientific paper about energy consumption of AI