Re: Bringing the Green Web to WordPress [via Sustainable Web Design Community Group]

Hey Guys,

I love what you are doing… I’m swamped with other things these days… but wanted to share a video I created 6 years ago, based on figures from Jonathan Koomey’s report in 2007 (which he presented to Congress) entitled: Estimating Total Power Consumption by Servers in the US and the World (https://www.dropbox.com/s/h03yf11nyn056uz/Koomey_Server_Power_Report.pdf?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/h03yf11nyn056uz/Koomey_Server_Power_Report.pdf?dl=0>) along with my own calculations from various sources.

Here’s the video I made to communicate those (very dry) statistics in layman’s terms: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq0jbqn4esshlbt/The%20Internet%20Is%20Bad%20For%20the%20Environment.mp4?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/uq0jbqn4esshlbt/The%20Internet%20Is%20Bad%20For%20the%20Environment.mp4?dl=0>

Keep up the good work!

-Jonathan


https://www.dropbox.com/s/h03yf11nyn056uz/Koomey_Server_Power_Report.pdf?dl=0

> On May 5, 2018, at 8:47 AM, Tim Frick <tim@mightybytes.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey Pete,
> 
> You can get embed code here: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/ <https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/green-web-check/>
> 
> It's not the WordPress plugin but if you want to display the badge on your site, you can do it that way. 
> 
> Also, we've been exploring a few new ways to better utilize Ecograder data in ways similar to this. Just need to find the resources/time to build those out. :-|
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> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com <mailto:pindiespace@gmail.com>> wrote:
> What would really be cool is making a WP plugin that tied into EcoGrader.com, plus the badge.
> 
> On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 7:43 AM, Pete Markiewicz <pindiespace@gmail.com <mailto:pindiespace@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Give us widget code!
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> On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Mike Gifford <mike@openconcept.ca <mailto:mike@openconcept.ca>> wrote:
> Hey Jack,
> 
> Thanks for posting this. 
> 
>> On May 4, 2018, at 1:59 PM, W3C Community Development Team <team-community-process@w3.org <mailto:team-community-process@w3.org>> wrote:
>> With Mozilla's 2018 Internet Health Report finally shining a light on sustainability, and thanks to Chris Adams' presentation at MozFest last year, I've been inspired to seriously up my game in terms of helping wherever I can in this field.
> 
> Mozilla’s been such a great force looking at the health of the Open Web.
>  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Internet_Health_Report <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Internet_Health_Report>
> 
> Is there a link to  Chris Adams’ presentation?
> 
>> As a first step, I've put together a very simple WordPress widget that allows users to easily add The Green Web Foundation's badge to their website. I think of the widget more as a marketing tool than anything else – i.e. it gets The Green Web Foundation into WordPress' shop window.
> 
> I like the The Green Web Foundation, but it isn’t being well supported.  I’ve been trying to get Amazon’s new green hosting listed:
>  https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/ <https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/sustainability/>
> 
> But as I understand it the GWF has  “a self-service account environment where - normally - owners register their details and keep them up to date."
> 
> So far Amazon hasn’t stepped forward to do this.
> 
>> You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar).
> 
> Cool.
> 
>> My next steps within WordPress are to create a theme that incorporates all of the sustainable web design techniques. My goal is to make a theme that can theoretically score 100 with Ecograder. I say theoretically because some things are dependent on the host, MozRank etc. But if, for example, I could get the demo site for the theme near to 100, that'd be awesome. And I could also centre all of the content on the demo site around Internet sustainability.
> 
> You know about these past talks about Sustainable UX:
>  http://www.sustainableux.com/talks/ <http://www.sustainableux.com/talks/>
> 
> I like to look at this from a systems point of view, I wrote up this for Drupal:
>  http://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/tips-sustainable-drupal-7-8-website <http://openconcept.ca/blog/mike/tips-sustainable-drupal-7-8-website>
> 
> Similar stuff could be done for WordPress. 
> 
>> Also, hello everyone! I'm Jack and I work as an engineer on the WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/> VIP team. I'm rather passionate about environmental issues. :) I was the Green Party candidate in a UK parliamentary by-election last year which meant I appeared on TV a bit!
> 
> Most performance issues will have a sustainability impact:
>  https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status%5B%5D=Open&issue_tags=performance <https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/search?status%5B%5D=Open&issue_tags=performance>
> 
> Also building in mechanisms like:
>  https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize <https://www.drupal.org/project/imageapi_optimize>
> 
> But generally with Drupal I try to ask myself, what could be fixed in core so that we don’t just fix the 1% of the users that actually add the extension, but that we are able to shift the whole community. We’ve done this with accessibility. Sustainability not so much.
> 
> Imagine if we could save 1% of the power used in all of the WordPress sites out there?  What if we could make incremental gains so that it was easier for everyone to understand how their users will have better experiences (and use less power) if sustainability wasn’t just an afterthought. 
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> My "Ux in VR" presentations on Google Docs (note you can comment)
> WebVR 1.0 API
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13a29m0SbpTeItFP8fjrSoKNb7nsjAd4DC9lWnokWEfg/edit?usp=sharing>
> Sustainable Ux in VR
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing <https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OTXaz3RuV0HWgM754PRMUC7d2KYVHH974s5hnAt53wk/edit?usp=sharing>Sustainable virtual design blog: http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com <http://sustainablevirtualdesign.wordpress.com/>
> Sustainability template: http://greenboilerplate.com <http://greenboilerplate.com/>
> Sustainable Ux in Virtual Reality for Sustainable Ux 2017 (narrated): https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw <https://youtu.be/bU0tz05lcBw>
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> On that page, see my DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 entry video, "Team Robomonster":
> Team Robomonster (DARPA 2005 Grand Challenge):
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> Indiespace (1st to sell downloaded music, March 1994): http://www.indiespace.com <http://www.indiespace.com/>. Also see http://archive.org <http://archive.org/> under 
> "Kspace.com" 1996 for our original site.
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