Resources
Cloud Carbon Footprint (CCF)
Cloud Carbon Footprint is an open-source tool that provides visibility and tooling to measure, monitor and reduce cloud carbon emissions.
Digital Beacon
A website carbon calculator based on the SWD method.
Ecograder
A website carbon calculator based on the SWD method.
Ember
Data insights into the power sector, openly published and accessible. We use the data available from Ember for the Carbon Intensity in our methods.
Green Software Foundation (GSF)
A trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for green software.
Green Web Foundation
The Green Web Foundation is an independent non-profit that tracks how much of the internet runs on green energy. Manage the environmental impact of your digital products. Apply best practices in digital sustainability. Home of the open-source CO2 javascript library.
SPEC Power Benchmark
The SPEC Power benchmark is the first industry-standard benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of single server and multi-node servers. It is used to compare power and performance among different servers and serves as a toolset for use in improving server efficiency. The benchmark is targeted for use by hardware vendors, IT industry, computer manufacturers, and governments.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
A list of 17 interlinked objectives adopted by the United Nations in 2015 aimed at ensuring people and the planet prosper now and in the future. They aim to do this by solving core problems like human poverty and diseases while also preserving biodiversity and a healthy planet so that future generations have a plentiful Earth for sustaining themselves.
Sustainable Web Design (SWD)
Sustainable Web Design provides guidelines created by the World Wide Web Consortium’s Sustainable Web Design community group. It also defines the SWD methodology as used by Green Web Foundation’s CO2.js.
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
Web Sustainability Guidelines covers a wide range of recommendations for making websites and products more sustainable.
Website Carbon Calculator
A website carbon calculator based on the SWD method.