🌱 Green News #208: Green Prompting & Measuring Browser Energy ⚡

🌟 Immediate Actions to Scale Green Software 🌟

• 🗣️ Speak at CNCF’s Cloud Native Sustainability Month Barcelona (Deadline: October 26)
• 💚 Connect on the Movement Platform
• 🌎 Attend a GSF Local Meetup

🎙️ Latest Resources and Perspectives 📝

Discover A Skills Framework for Sustainable Technology and GreenOps: SFIA’s skills map linking sustainability work to existing roles, with 12 template profiles.

Discover Introducing DIST: A new open source taxonomy, methodology map, and schema from the Green Web Foundation to help organizations measure and report digital impacts.

Watch How to Architect Green Software: Ioannis Kolaxis explores how to balance sustainability with cost, latency, and availability, and why AI coding makes greener choices easier.

Watch A Fossil Free Internet, Kirby and Carbon.txt: Chris Adams explains how to recognize credible green energy claims, score hosting choices, and share evidence with carbon.txt.

Read Browser Energy Usage: TU Delft students find ad blockers reduce browser energy use by up to 35% on ad-heavy sites but add overhead on ad-free ones.

Read Reconciling Bottom-Up Metrics with Top-Down Reporting for Cloud Carbon Accounting: Researchers propose linking SCI scores to cloud carbon reports and call for clearer, auditable reporting.

Read Green Prompt Engineering for Sustainable Gen AI: A study introduces six best practices to reduce energy consumption and emissions during LLM inference.

Read Who Pays for AI's Power?: Nina Benoit looks at how data centers affect the local environment and why the EU’s proposed energy and water rating label could lead to binding rules.

Read Can AI Cut More Emissions Than It Creates?: Cal Innes reviews the claim that AI will save more energy than it uses and offers five questions to check against AI climate claims.

🌱 Events & Trainings 🌱

The True Price of AI (October 21 at 6:00 pm CEST · Hamburg): Learn why responsible AI is about resilience, cost, and control.

CNCF Cloud Native Sustainability Month Romania (October 21 at 6:45 pm EEST · Virtual): Get community updates and lightning talks on cloud native sustainability.

Experiments in Decarbonizing Digital Services (October 21 at 6:00 pm BST · Brighton · Hybrid): James Chudley shares practical tools to help digital teams start reducing their services' footprint.

Operationalizing the Sustainable Enterprise in the Age of AI (October 22 at 9:30 am CEST · Munich): Join workshops on turning sustainability goals into IT and AI decisions.

Green Agentic AI with Headroom (November 3 at 6:30 pm CET · Karlsruhe · Hybrid): Join Tejas Chopra to learn how trimming the context AI agents send can cut compute per task.

Cloud Native Sustainability Month: Barcelona Edition (November 3 at 6:30 pm CET · Barcelona): Join community lightning talks on sustainability in cloud native and open source.

NetDRIVE Autumn Gathering 2026 (November 4–6 · Bristol): Attend a three-day gathering to drive collective action toward more sustainable digital research infrastructure.

Cooling Without Compromise (November 5 at 4:00 pm CET · Virtual): Operators, energy experts, and academics explore engineering choices determining how AI can scale sustainably.

Code Green Meetup (November 17 at 6:30 pm GMT · London): Join peers to review GSF’s Green Software Practitioner training, ahead of taking the certification.

Old Phones, New Cloud (November 18 at 6:00 pm CET · 's-Hertogenbosch): Join a hackathon to turn old smartphones into a lightweight Kubernetes cluster.

Environmental Impacts of AI (November 19 at 2:00 pm CET · Virtual): Explore the current standards on measuring AI’s environmental impacts in Green Web Foundation’s session.

GSF Courses: Join over 130,000 practitioners and learn how to build, measure, and scale green software.

⚡ News ⚡

Now Is the Moment for Circular Computing: Hardware shortages are making reuse, refurbishing, and take-back schemes a business opportunity, not just a green one.

AI’s Water Consumption Includes Surging Demand from Electricity Use: With much of AI’s water use happening at power plants, the industry needs a standard to measure it.

The Climate Tech That's Cutting Data Center Energy Use: Startups are tackling data center energy and water use with geothermal power, chip-level cooling, and waste heat reuse.