Web Fonts and Sustainability
Web fonts have expanded the designer’s palette and often provide a richer experience for users—but how can we make them more sustainable?
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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.
Why Sharing Code is Benevolent and Sustainable
Shared libraries offer quick access to solutions for common development problems. Incorporating shared libraries vetted by the developer community makes your entire codebase easier for other developers to understand and, ultimately, more sustainable….
Optimizing Video for the Web
Online video can be an impactful marketing and communications tool. However, with huge file sizes, it can also be your website’s biggest source of carbon emissions. In this post, we’ll…
Optimizing Photos Within a Responsive Design
In the next post in our Sustainable Web Design series, we look at ways to optimize images for better performance and increased sustainability, within responsive design.
Minifying or Munging Code for Faster Website Page Speed
In this post, we explore how minifying page scripts can help increase performance, improve user experience, and burn less energy in the process.
Learn How Organizations Address the SDGs in this Report
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a simple framework for organizations across sectors to address society’s biggest challenges. Learn how organizations operationalize the SDGs—as well as some obstacles they…
Sustainable SEO: Processes and Practices
In this post, we explore how to design a sustainable SEO strategy that meets your organization’s marketing needs while also considering the broader social and environmental ramifications of search.
Is GDPR Good for the Environment?
In this post, we explore how the European Union’s new privacy legislation could lead to a higher performing internet that not only maintains user privacy, but also burns less energy…
How to Prioritize Digital Accessibility and Sustainability
In this post, we explore the connection between sustainability and digital accessibility and outline how you can prioritize both, side-by-side, within your own organization.
What is a Good Digital Carbon Rating?
In this post, we explore how digital carbon ratings can help you measurably improve web sustainability.