General Reading List
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Big list of recommended reading on energy (PDF) from July 2021. See also copy in "resources" folder.
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Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood, published by A Book Apart.
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Hundred Rabbits' guide to nomadic, onboard living has some useful tips for low-power tech and alternative approaches.
Green Tech Scenes
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ClimateAction.tech has a large, busy community and Slack group.
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the-sustainable.dev, "a series of developer resources, blog posts and long-form case studies that help to inform the developer community and encourage action to make the web greener and more sustainable."
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Cloud Carbon Footprint Google Group for discussing the Cloud Carbon Footprint tool and Green Cloud topics in general.
Principles and Manifestos
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Wim Vanderbauwhede on Frugal Computing has some good stats and explains the background/need well. (2021)
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Principles of Green Software Engineering from Asim Hussain at Microsoft sets out some principles, and highlights how they can be applied to certain paradigms (such as Microservices).
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Sustainable Web Manifesto is a document you can sign up to and state your intent to develop a web that is open and regenerative.
General Technical Reading
- John Teague's comprehensive guide to web page weight, including how it's grown over time, and how it breaks down into images, script, etc.