Great Green Open WebDavid Bourguignon

Drumbeat Paris – 1 July 2010

Source: Smart 2020 report (http://www.smart2020.org/)

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Source: Smart 2020 report (http://www.smart2020.org/)

“Without major paradigm shifts in

technological development, the growth in both

usage and footprint is likely to continue

as more and more people worldwide

enter the digital age.”

Source: Smart 2020 report (http://www.smart2020.org/)

Source: UCSD Energy Dashboard (http://energy.ucsd.edu/)See also: Yuvraj Agarwal, Stefan Savage and Rajesh Gupta, SleepServer: A Software-Only Approach for Reducing the Energy Consumption of PCs within Enterprise Environments, In: Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010 (http://mesl.ucsd.edu/yuvraj/research/sleepserver.html)

“Just browsing a basic website generates about

20mg of CO₂ per second.”

“With rich animation and video up to

300mg per second.”

“Dominant contribution to this footprint comes from

the electricity consumed by visitors computers.”

Source: Alexander Wissner-Gross, How you can help reduce the footprint of the Web, Times Online, 11 January 2009(http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5488934.ece)

Introducing…

Mozilla Firefox’s Softwaste-o-meter!

They do it for washing machines…

Why not for web browsing PCs?

Benefit #1

Making people aware of the link between

the design of the Web, the use of

energy and the World we live in.

Inspirations:http://www.greenit.fr/article/energie/combien-de-co2-degage-un-1-kwh-electriquehttp://www.carbon.to/

Benefit #2

Energy-efficient software results in

leaner and faster websites,

providing a more interactiveuser experience.

Inspiration:http://www.greenit.fr/article/logiciels/green-challenge-serez-vous-a-la-hauteur

Partnering…

Measuring server-side of softwaste productionhttp://www.co2stats.com/http://www.greenalytics.org/

Measuring client-side of softwaste productionhttp://sites.google.com/a/octo.com/green-challenge/outils/greenfox