🌱 Green News #210: What’s Next for Measuring Web Emissions? 📊
Learn how organizations can make credible, evidence-based claims and how tools like the IMPACT methodology and Zena help identify potential risks in sustainability messaging.
🌟 Immediate Actions to Scale Green Software 🌟
- 🙋‍♂️ Help Shape GSF’s Vendor-Neutral Framework for Connecting Cooling, Power, and Compute Data
- 🛜 Take a Survey to Help Estimate Wired Connection Usage
- 👨‍💻 Run a Quick AI Training Experiment for an SCI Master's Thesis
- đź’š Connect on the Movement Platform
- 🌎 Attend a GSF Local Meetup
🎙️ Latest Resources and Perspectives 📝
Read How Much Energy Does It Really Cost to Visit a Website?: Chris Adams explains how SCI for Web measures energy use in the browser.
Read Business Case for Digital Sustainability: From EDF to Air France, 24 case studies show how the investments pay off in lower costs, better UX, and a smaller environmental footprint.
Read What’s Next for Assessing Web Environmental Impact: Fershad Irani on moving away from estimation models toward more robust, component-based methodologies.
Read How a Small Tech Company Is Decarbonizing the Digital Frontier: GoCodeGreen founder Eric Zie shares how an SME can lead the charge in mitigating tech’s climate footprint.
Read Green Code or Costly Code?: A study finds LLM-optimized code often uses more energy than code written by humans.
Read EU Sustainability Labels for Data Centers: Bridget Miles (RSM UK) explains what public A–G energy and water ratings, due from August 2027, mean for operators.
Read Why Measuring Your Public Cloud Carbon Footprint Is So Hard: Laura Cooper on what buyers can do to understand allocation, electricity accounting, and embodied emissions.
Watch Carbon as a First-Class Signal: Diana Todea (VictoriaMetrics) explores SCI through the lens of OpenTelemetry semantic conventions in Observability Summit Europe’s talk.
Watch Can Observability Reduce Your Tech Debt?: Wilco Burggraaf shares how telemetry data can reduce engineering complexity and make software more sustainable.
Discover Green Coding: HTW Berlin’s free visual guide mapping green coding concepts, tools, and practices.
🌱 Events & Trainings 🌱
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.
Opening the Black Box (November 4 at 6:00 pm CET · Virtual): Learn how the Sustainable AI Group’s CLEER method estimates emissions from closed AI models, and how Etsy adopted it.
NetDRIVE Autumn Gathering 2026 (November 4–6 · Bristol): Attend a three-day gathering focused on 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.
Data Center Dilemmas (November 11 at 6:00 pm GMT · Bristol): Join Friends of the Earth and University of Exeter speakers discussing AI data centers’ impacts and the case for transparency.
Applying Systems Thinking to Map the Reality of Unsustainable Tech (November 12 at 5:00 pm CET · Virtual): Join ClimateAction.Tech members to explore the root causes of unsustainable tech.
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.
Unlocking Sustainable Technology & GreenOps with SFIA 9 (November 19 at 5:00 pm AEDT · Virtual): Learn how to map, evaluate, and build organizational capabilities for sustainable technology.
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 ⚡
How to Make AI More Environmentally Sustainable: At GOTO, Charles Humble shared why AI is pushing IT the wrong way, and what architects can do about it.
Microsoft Faces Potential Vote: Shareholders to decide whether Microsoft should disclose how it plans to become carbon negative by 2030.
Big, Noisy, and Coming to a Town Near You: As data centers grow bigger and use more electricity, 16 US states have proposed laws to ban or pause new builds.
