Software, Environment and Sustainability
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How Infrastructure as Code Helps Prevent Overprovisioning
Infrastructure as code can reduce wasted cloud capacity when teams use it to define smaller, repeatable environments and control how resources are created. This article explains the practical ways IaC supports sustainability by making overprovisioning easier to spot, review, and avoid.
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How to Build a Sustainable CMS Strategy for Themes, Plugins, Media Libraries, and Caching
A CMS can either support efficient publishing or quietly add unnecessary weight to every page. This article explains how themes, plugins, media libraries, and caching affect performance and resource use, and how to make practical choices that keep a site maintainable as it grows.
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Open Source Tools for Measuring Digital Carbon
Measuring the carbon impact of digital products starts with the right tools and a clear boundary for what you want to count. This article explains how open source sustainability tools can help teams estimate emissions from websites, software, and cloud use, what they can and cannot tell you, and how to choose a tool that…
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Understanding the Main Climate Tech Categories and How They Work Together
Climate tech is usually grouped into carbon accounting, carbon removal, energy efficiency, and adaptation, but each category solves a different problem. This article explains what each one does, how they differ, and why strong climate strategies often need more than one of them.
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On Device AI Versus Cloud AI Sustainability Tradeoffs
On device AI and cloud AI can both be useful, but they shift environmental costs in different ways. This article explains the main sustainability tradeoffs across energy use, network traffic, hardware life, model size, and update patterns so you can judge which approach fits a specific product or workload.
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Serverless Sustainability Benefits and Hidden Tradeoffs
Serverless can reduce wasted capacity and simplify operations, but its environmental impact depends on workload shape, traffic patterns, architecture choices, and how you measure cloud use. This article explains where serverless can help, where it can add hidden overhead, and how to judge the tradeoffs without relying on assumptions.
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How Tourism Carbon Footprints Change Across Accommodation Transport Food and Activities
Tourism emissions come from several parts of a trip, not just flights or hotels. This article explains how accommodation, transport, food, and activities each add to a travel carbon footprint, and how to compare options without oversimplifying the whole journey.
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How to Tell Climate Stories With Data Without Overloading Readers
Climate data can make a story stronger, but only if the numbers help readers understand a point quickly. This article shows how to choose the right data, simplify visuals and language, and keep attention on meaning instead of clutter.
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Gas Boilers Versus Heat Pumps for Emissions, Cost, and Performance
Gas boilers and heat pumps can both heat a home, but they differ in how they use energy, what they cost to run, and how well they perform in different buildings. This article explains the main tradeoffs so you can compare them on emissions, operating cost, comfort, and suitability for your home.
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Programmatic Advertising Emissions and Sustainable Media Buying
Programmatic advertising has a carbon footprint that comes from data transfer, auction activity, ad serving, creative loading, and the broader supply chain. This article explains where emissions are created, which buying decisions can reduce them, and how to judge sustainability claims without sacrificing media quality or accountability.
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