Our Sustainability Services
Align digital strategies with sustainability strategies.
Sustainable Digital
Transformation
Powered by the W3C’s Web Sustainability Guidelines and our pioneering web sustainability tool Ecograder, digital sustainability services from Mightybytes offer organizations opportunities to improve performance, efficiency, and usability while achieving strategic alignment between people, planet, and shared prosperity.
Benefits
For You
If you hire Mightybytes for sustainability services, you can expect the following benefits.
Impact
Sustainable design practices use less energy, reducing your environmental impact.
Trust
Sustainable products work faster across a wider array of devices, engendering trust.
Performance
Leaner products perform better against more traditional speed and efficiency metrics.
Cost
By transferring, tracking, and collecting less data you can potentially reduce costs.
Risk
More sustainable sites reduce risk and improve compliance with current or emerging standards and regulations.
Capacity
Training your team on digital sustainability practices builds capacity to better maintain digital products over time.
Resilience
Continuous improvement makes products more secure and resilient, ensuring they are available when people need them most.
Our Digital Sustainability Services
Mightybytes offers the services below to help your team prioritize sustainable design.
Understand the material needs of human and non-human stakeholders impacted by your digital product and business decisions.
- When to use it: at the outset of any large initiative
- Deliverables: business ecosystem research, stakeholder and materiality mapping workshops, and recommendations report with data insights
- Timeline: two to three weeks
Align digital and sustainability strategies by first identifying areas for improvement and setting a baseline measurement strategy.
- When to use it: to jumpstart your digital sustainability journey and better understand the environmental impact of your digital products, services, campaigns, and programs
- Deliverables: impact report data and insights identifying key areas for improvement
- Timeline: depends on the scope of your digital product or service ecosystem
We’ll train your team how to address digital sustainability issues and create workflows that help you build capacity and improve internal practices over time.
- When to use it: anytime you want to improve your team’s skillset and help them build capacity on digital sustainability tools and techniques
- Deliverables: research, workshops, training decks and documentation
- Timeline: typically four to six weeks, depending on project scope
Dovetail digital strategies with sustainability reporting and an ongoing commitment to continuous improvement.
- When to use it: anytime is good, after completing an audit is optimal
- Deliverables: monthly reports outlining potential improvement areas with benchmarks tracked over time
- Timeline: ongoing
Our Sustainability Statement
Learn more about Mightybytes’ long-term commitment to sustainability in everything we do.
How our Digital Sustainability Process Works
We aim to help our clients understand how sustainability impacts their digital products, services, policies, and programs. We then empower them to take action. To accomplish this, we employ the following process.
Define Goals
Set a baseline for your digital sustainability efforts by identifying organizational goals and key performance indicators needed to track progress toward them.
Audit Product or Website
Identify issues that affect optimal sustainability for your digital product or service.
Remediate Sustainability Issues
Systematically address digital sustainability issues as identified by an audit.
Team Sustainability Training
Educate stakeholders and empower them to successfully remediate digital sustainability efforts over time as they occur.
Sustainability Reporting
Track progress over time toward your sustainability goals. Identify potential carbon sinks and other digital product or service issues that might impede progress.
Sustainability Theory of Change
Learn more about how we fold sustainability into our operations, communications, and the services we offer.
Sustainability
Clients
Here are just a few organizations we have helped with sustainability.
Ecograder helped us understand the environmental impact of our website and provided a clear roadmap to build a better site that’s both people- and planet-friendly.
— Sharon Miller | Director, Digital Experience and Analysis | DePaul University
Sustainability Case Study
See our sustainability services in action. This case study shows how we helped DePaul University improve upon their marketing goals over time while also prioritizing digital sustainability.
Frequently Asked
Questions
Not sure how your team or organization might benefit from our sustainability services? Here are the five most common questions we receive.
In addition to measurably improving your environmental impact, prioritizing digital sustainability can help you build stronger stakeholder relationships, reduce costs, and improve performance, efficiency, and usability as well. Each of these can be tied to financial benefits.
No. While performance optimization plays a role, digital sustainability is much broader and features more holistic methods to improve the social, economic, and environmental impacts of digital products and services, including green hosting, efficient user journeys, digital supply chain strategies, a commitment to continuous improvement, and so on.
Emissions figures are broad stroke estimates based on a single point in time with wide system boundaries that include both operational and embodied emissions. They shouldn’t be construed as a fixed number or an accurate representation of your actual digital footprint.
However, you can use digital carbon ratings and emissions estimates to kickstart conversations at your organization about bigger picture initiatives that align digital sustainability efforts with global goals, like the U.N. SDGs, and common reporting standards, like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).
For many organizations, emissions estimates from digital products and services often fall under Scope 3 reporting. You can include our estimates in your reports with the caveat that they are part of a broader organizational effort to reduce emissions and improve ESG impacts of digital products and services over time. Showing progress over time is key to preventing sustainability pitfalls, like digital greenwashing.
Yes. If digital products, services, campaigns, or programs represent a large part of how your organization creates value, focusing on digital sustainability will help you measurably reduce emissions and improve your environmental impact.
Also, every industry is undergoing systemic changes in the face of our global climate crisis. It is only a matter of time before regulations dictate how an organization discloses and improves its climate impact. Crafting a clear and comprehensive climate action plan that includes digital sustainability puts you ahead of the curve.
Digital Sustainability Quickstart
Quickly understand common website metrics that impact digital sustainability by running an Ecograder report on your homepage.
Why
Mightybytes?
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Deeply Experienced
We have delivered hundreds of successful projects since opening our doors in 1998.
171.8
Responsible & Accountable
Our B Corp score of 171.8 reflects a strong commitment to transparency and accountability.
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Small but Mighty
We're an experienced team dedicated to building trust through meaningful service.
4.5
Highly Rated
We have 4.5 star ratings on popular review platforms like Clutch and Google.
Our Sustainability Statement
Learn more about the sustainability commitments Mightybytes makes.
Still have Sustainability Questions?
Schedule a free strategy call with Tim.