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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.
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.
You can see the widget in action on my blog (bottom of the sidebar).
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.
Also, hello everyone! I’m Jack and I work as an engineer on the 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!
What’s needed for better sustainability is a library that allows lookup of JS library by version, with known vulnerabilities. At the very least, design and maintenance documents for websites should include a strategy for fixing outdated JS libraries in the mix.
Green UX draws from individual needs and goals to generate products and services that both improve user experience and increase the convenience of environmentally friendly behaviors. This year’s event will feature sessions on “Sustainable Web Design” – tickets here…
Here’s a link to all things Sustainable Web Design on Mightybytes’ website. As of Feb 2014 we have 19 posts on various aspects of web sustainability and a guide for developing sustainable digital products for anyone who might be interested.
All — I propose we keep a running list of current sustainable web evaluator tools/methods. These can be either auto-gen (“auto”) assessments (like Tim’s Ecograder) or manual (“manual”) assessments (like the IMA contest, etc.)
From this and with additional work we can compile a standardized set of assessments to rate sustainable Web.
If you know of others, or come across them in your work, please add to the list:
I am working out the model for improved sustainable Web ecosystem design model.
All, just wanted to share the latest version of the Sustainable Web Ecosystem Design (SWED) model that I am using for edition 2 of my book. This is also being used as instructional material in the class I teach at Penn State, IST 250.
Any commentary is welcome.
Thanks, Greg
We have nominated Pete markiewicz as our new chairman. Congratulations Pete! Besides, I’d like thanking Tim Frick for having taken charge of Interim Chair.
Now, please vote for how our chair will be organized.
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