Green Patterns: Helping Users Make More Sustainable Choices
In this article, we explore ‘green patterns’. These experience design practices help web teams avoid deception and better serve the needs of both people and the planet.
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Sustainability
What you do to the planet, you do to the people. Learn how to apply responsible environmental, social, and economic principles to your digital products, services, policies, and programs in the articles below.
What is Your Data Disposal Strategy?
In this post, we discuss the benefits and potential pitfalls of your organization’s data disposal practices.
How CSS Sprites Improve Speed And Sustainability
In this post on Sustainable Web Design, we explain what a CSS Sprite is, how it can help your pages load faster, and how that reduces your carbon footprint.
What is Corporate Digital Responsibility?
Rigged elections, e-waste, racist algorithms, income inequality, the huge amount of energy, water, and resource use associated with Generative AI—what is the dark side of digital transformation? In this guide,…
Seven Core CDR Principles
Here are seven core CDR principles that will help you incorporate more ethical and responsible digital practices within your organization.
What Can We Really Do About Spam?
Spam is one of those daily problems we deal with when communicating via the internet. In this post, we explore what you can do about spam and how we might…
Technical Debt, Agile, and Sustainability
In this post, we explore how to dovetail technical debt with sustainability principles. Technical debt can cost organizations time, money, customer relationships, or, in worst-case scenarios, their entire business. What’s…
Web Sustainability: Frequently Asked Questions
Here are answers to the most frequently asked questions about web sustainability, including what it is, who it affects, and how to meaningfully address it in your organization. Web sustainability…
Help us Establish Environmental Standards for the Internet
It’s time to define clear environmental standards for the internet. Join a worldwide group of digital professionals committed to a more sustainable internet that works for all people and our…
Web Hosting and Renewable Energy
What’s the difference between a web hosting provider that uses renewable energy credits (RECs) and one powered directly by renewable energy? And where do emissions offsets fit into this picture?…