Due to the worldwide lockdowns in 2020, Internet traffic jumped about 20%. That creates issues for sustainability and the environment:…
Limitations of “Virtualization” of the Economy and Sustainability
Nature, that August scientific journal published for well over a century just carried an article (survey/review of multiple sources) difficult…
SDFY – A Green Design Framework
A new post by Alex Crowfoot creates a framework for integrating sustainable design into the standard “double diamond” IDEO-style design…
New Estimates of Internet Electricity Consumption & Smush to the Rescue
If you bring up the “carbon footprint of the web” it is likely you will get a mask of astonishment…
The Case Against “Pixel Perfect” Design
I ran across a great article on uxdesign.cc, which fits right into the practice of Sustainable Virtual Design. Basically, the…
Sustainable Web Manifesto Finally Out!
Yay. The group that came together for the Sustainable Ux conference, plus some more, has finally released their “sustainable web…
Streaming an Album has a Higher Carbon Footprint than Buying an Album
Another in a many years-long list of studies, showing that “virtualizing”, a frequent goal of “sustainable” or “green” designers, in…
Crazy Thinking about “Internet of Things” (IoT)
One of the nastier things about the “weightless” delusion for the web, apps, software, Ai is that it doesn’t even…
New Carbon Footprint Calculator
Got a great connection to a website carbon footprint calculator from my friend Tim Frick, author of Sustainable Web design.…
Responsive Conversational Design as a Road to Web Sustainability
I’ve been learning more about conversational design, which is design of user interfaces that are chatbot or texting-like. Instead of…
