Sustainability/2025-04-24-talk

How We Engage on Sustainability Issues Through Standards Bodies

Lightning talk points on Sustainability, 2025-04-24, by Tantek Çelik

1. Set a good example: Mozilla vision on designing standards and implementations for sustainability
   • consider electricity consumption
   • reducing rate of device replacement
   • encourage energy-efficient technologies at scale
   • avoiding proof-of-work technologies
2. Use our votes on technologies, e.g. formal objection to DID Specification due to use of proof of work blockchains
3. Collaborate to broaden impact:
   • Support W3C Ethical Web Principles, Section 2.9 The web is an environmentally sustainable platform
   • Edited W3C Vision: Operating Principle of Thorough Review includes sustainability
   • Contribute to W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) for sustainable use of current technologies, in W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group
   • Created W3C Sustainability Community Group and co-chairing, for evaluating sustainability impacts of future technologies

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Documenting our work publicly: Sustainability wiki page.