Did you know that you can recycle paper bags in a blue bin but not plastic ones? Or that #5 plastic is okay but #6 is not? Jeff explains where and how to recycle in Chicago.

When I first started working at Mightybytes we had just become a certified B Corporation. At first, the idea of a B Corporation, a company that has a triple bottom line of people, planet and prosperity, was a little confusing to me. Neither my parents or I had ever worked for a company that prioritized solving social and environmental issues.

But after two years of working here, despite never really thinking about the environment or recycling prior to this, I have definitely seen a change in my behavior in how I think about the environment. The most important change that I have notices is in my desire to recycle.

One month after moving in to our new office we welcomed over 70 guests into our new space for an Officewarming Party and Fundraiser for Climate Ride. Here’s a recap. Thanks to all of our guests and new neighbors who …

One quick and easy step that you can take to minimize a website’s carbon footprint is to optimize images, making them smaller and faster to load.

Images can make the stuff we read online easier to read. They can help customers feel a strong emotion or get a clear impression of a brand. People are also more likely to share blog posts with images rather than text. But images that aren’t optimized for publication on the web, can increase the carbon footprint of you website.

Simply put, pixels need power to appear on your screen. Both the web servers that deliver content to customers and the devices that consumers use to browse the web use electricity. Billions of watts of electricity. And a lot of that electricity is generated by sources that aren’t clean or renewable. In this post we’re going to look at some basic techniques for optimizing your images for performance and for sustainability.

Make your content more findable by using customer friendly error page and appropriate redirects. It’s an SEO best practice, that will also make your website greener.

Findability is a term that describes how easy or difficult it is for a person to find content they are looking for, both through search engines and for those searching within a website. The more findable information is, the less unnecessary steps a person has to go through to find what they need.

Learn how to add keywords to pages for SEO, to increase the findability of your content and to reduce your website’s carbon footprint. Keyword optimization is a well-known strategy for helping people find your content, both through search engines and …