Learn about the hidden environmental costs of digital products and how you can design more sustainable digital products.
Tools and frameworks
- Awesome Green Software list of tools, libraries, and other resources that can help you build greener applications.
- B Impact Assessment is a tool companies can use to measure impact on their workers, community, environment, and customers.
- ClimateAction.Tech guide: Reduce the carbon emissions of your website
- Climate Justice 101 Guide by Work on Climate’s climate justice learning group
- Cloud Carbon Emissions Measurement and Analysis Tool
- CO2.js - estimate emissions in your websites and apps
- Green Software Patterns
- Green Software Practitioner free training course
- Green Software repositories on GitHub
- Job Function Action Guides by Project Drawdown offer sustainability checklists and resources for different job functions, such as engineering, product design, product management, and more.
- Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) Specification
- Sustainable Design Tools
- Sustainable Web Design
- Tools for Sustainable Innovation by Threebility
- Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
- Website Carbon Calculator
Websites
- Sustainable Virtual Design
- SustainableBusinessModel.org presents academic research on business models for sustainability.
Podcasts
Books
- Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable
- Designing for Sustainability
- World Wide Waste
Organizations to follow
- ClimateAction.tech is a worldwide community connecting tech workers that want to learn more about climate action, discover climate jobs and more.
- Green Software Foundation is building a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for creating and building green software.
- Green Web Foundation offers a directory of green hosting providers and other useful green web tools.
- Work on Climate is an action-oriented Slack community for people serious about climate work.
Events
- SustainableUX is an online free conference for UX, front-end, and product people interested in sustainability