Description
In this episode, we invite Tom Greenwood to talk about sustainable web design and his company Wholegrain Digital.
Tom tells us about:
- His background and how he became aware of the environmental footprint of technologies.
- What is Wholegrain Digital about
- The Website Carbon tool and the Sustainable Web Design website
- The update with new data from Andrae and how they use it
- Differences of approach between countries for impact calculation, and the topic of the Life Cycle Assessment
- What it involved in being a Bcorp
- How to convince customers to embrace sustainability
- The trend in digital sustainability
- His book Sustainable Web Design
Ressources from Tom’s work and involvement:
* The WholeGrain Digital company website: https://www.wholegraindigital.com/
* The Sustainable Web Design website created with Tim Frick and MightyBytes: https://sustainablewebdesign.org/
* The Website Carbon Calculator: https://www.websitecarbon.com/
* The Sustainable Web Design book: https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design/
Other references mentioned in the podcast:
* Victor Papanek, The green imperative : natural design for the real world: https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/3125924
* Andrae and Edler report - On Global Electricity Usage of Communication Technology (2015): https://www.mdpi.com/2078-1547/6/1/117#abstract
* Hypotheses for Primary Energy Use, Electricity Use and CΟ2 Emissions of Global Computing and Its Shares of the Total Between 2020 and 2030 : https://sciprofiles.com/publication/view/cec6690a8c69e66b2d1798af65611f08
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