How can I create more sustainable digital services?

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My two cents

Here are a few things you can do so that your digital service uses fewer resources:

  1. Host your website or app with hosting services that use renewable energy, like Infomaniak in Switzerland.

  2. Code in a way that uses fewer resources, what some call Green Coding. You could be interested in checking out also lowwwcarbon a website that tracks examples of low-carbon web design and development.

Go further

Here are a few additional resources to go further:

  1. Eco-design for designers: A guide with best practices to help create digital services with a minimal environmental footprint.

  2. Calculating Digital Emissions: A set of guidelines, questions and tools to help you calculate the carbon emissions of your digital services.

  3. lowwwimpact: a library of articles, tools and other resources on the topic

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