aalto.fi 
In June, I remotely attended the PhD defence of Emīlija Veselova at the Aalto University Department of Design, where she presented her research about nature as a stakeholder in design processes, more specifically the “more-than-human design approach”. The topic fascinates me, both from […]
#sustainability
Digital technology consumes electricity. Any form of computation hence comes with a CO2 footprint. As the climate crisis escalates, debates about being conscious of this impact – at small scale as well as globally – is both highly relevant and very interesting.
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Future-first design thinking
wholegraindigital.com 
“Future-first design thinking” by Marketa Benisek looks at contemporary approaches for the consideration of nature in design, from creating non-human personas, through Cathedral Thinking, to adopting a “sustainability-first mindset” and concludes:
Perhaps we […]
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Hands-On Sustainable Web Design
branch.climateaction.tech 
As an assumed 3.8% of global greenhouse emissions stem from “the digital world” (hard to define that more precisely, I assume), Laurent Devernay’s primer on how to make web design more sustainable is probably not the cure, but an important step in the right direction. Saving a bit […]
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Frugal computing
wimvanderbauwhede.github.io 
Highlighting how even radical reductions in **emissions in other fields will be nullified if the emissions from computing keep rising at the current pace**, Wim Vanderbauwhede makes the case for "frugal computing". -
A Data-Driven Guide to Effective Personal Climate Action erikareinhardt.com
“46 minute read” is a commitment, but this thoroughly researched post by Erika Reinhardt has an incredible amount of food for thought, background data and tools:
This post details the most effective individual changes you can make to fight climate change in your personal […]
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I wrote a small Kirby 3 plugin for temporarily shutting down my website on 20 Sep. -
Planet Friendly Web Guide -
planetfriendlyweb.org 
The internet is a great thing. It is also the biggest machine on earth, and it runs mostly on coal, which is bad news for our climate.
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What is Sustainable Web Design? sustainablewebdesign.org
As we click away on our screens and devices, it’s easily forgotten all this consumes natural resources - directly or indirectly:
Bloated websites lead to slow load times, frustrated users and wasted energy.
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Always interested in discovering new motives for non-standard forms of technology use (or its non-use), I recently ran into an interesting argumentation that online communication may be harmful to the environment due to its use of electricity. It all started when a friend of mine posted […]