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= 1000 Ideas =
There are thousands of things we can do to make advance a more sustainable internet. Find Below you’ll find a list of the ones we gathered through brainstorming, workshops, and feedback. We've used a "double diamond" approach, i.e. we went as wide and broad as possible, generating ideas regardless of feasibility or likelihood. You can keep adding to them and help us link out what to projects and add your ideasresearch that may bring them to life. We then narrowed these down to a few top ones (below) that have sparked most feedback and engagement so far.It's a process and we'll keep going wide to narrow it back down again, until a clearer path to action emerged.
== Bold Top Ideas (to date) ==
=== Make Sustainability Engineering a career pathway ===
* Sustainability engineering needs to be an recognized professional specialization as well as a skill integrated across the engineering field.
* Similar to accsssibility accessibility in web development, sustainability should be foundational in any developer's practice. See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility* This means incorparting incorporating sustainability engineering into computer science courses and educational programs.* And hiring for these roles and as well as upskilling existing developers in this area.* The tech profession should pressure non-compliant sites to invest in their sustainability and to follow best practices in engineering.
=== Budget for 1 planet ===
=== Change the Aesthetic ===
* What is desirable in one era can seem outdated and undesirable years later when societal norms change. We should design and code for a new sensibility, one that is irresistably irresistibly sustainable. * Like it or not, tech is a fashion -driven industry. Make the transition irresistableirresistible, and the everyday injustices outrageous.* Make caring about climate impact part of being a good professional.
=== Ask the Right Questions ===
** are there a public independent audit of progress on the way?
** is there disclosure of how much biz comes from projects to help extract fossil fuels?
=== Use equity for equity ===
* The work you do isn't the only lever you have. Money works for you too.
* Shares in your pension delay climate action - ask and switch.
* Stock you are paid in can force discussions that need to happen - use it like Amazon for Climate do.
* Divest your pension. https://gofossilfree.org/resources-tools/
=== Serve the planet ===
* Like a national service, or a tour in something like the Peace Corp, but without the problematic colonial bits. Because climate is a planetary problem, that we solve en mass, not by relying on single heroic figures. Frame it accordingly.
=== Fight denial ===
* Understand that algorithms and misinformation play a key role in delaying climate action.
* Develop information recommendation algorithms in a way that favor science-based information.
* Optimise for truth, not clicks.
== Meta mindsets ==
* How much does a bit cost?
* Transparency: the more we know, the more we can make better choices
* Machine-readable Sustainability Transparency Reports
== Manufacturing, hardware and recycling ==
* The right to repair
* Manufacturing phase: gather data about environmental cost hotspots
* Green manufacturer ratings
* Support for old hardware / BL compatibility
* Transparency in production and usage
* The browser as a demonstration site for sustainability engineering
== Hosting and data centers ==
* AWS: find the geographical location of servers
* Geo-IP: client can find IP of servers which hosts
== Measurements and usage data ==
* Time is up: Calculate the time to use tech to minimize footprint
* Energy star rating for software
== Web development and developer tools ==
* carbon.txt: headers in carbon.txt
* Static websites
== Browsing ==
* Addon: Addon which slows down site when user is using carbon-intensive websites
* Reducing file size
