Talking Drupal #348 - A Website’s Carbon Footprint

Today we are talking about A Website’s Carbon Footprint with Gerry McGovern.

www.talkingDrupal.com/348

Topics

• Earth day
• What is a carbon footprint
• How do websites contribute
• How can you calculate your site’s impact
• Cloud vs dedicated hosting
• How do you determine a vendor’s impact
• Small sites VS FAANG
• How to improve your site

Resources

• World Wide Waste podcast
  • Chats with Gerry McGovern and guests about digital sustainability and Earth Experience Design
  • Book
• How is your website impacting the planet?
• How green is your site?
• Sustainable Design
  • Tom Greenwood: Sustainable Web Design
  • Make greener design choices for better experiences and a healthier planet.
  • https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design
• Macarthur foundation
  • Circular Economy

Guests

Gerry McGovern - gerrymcgovern.com @gerrymcgovern

Hosts

Nic Laflin - www.nLighteneddevelopment.com @nicxvan
John Picozzi - www.epam.com @johnpicozzi
Mike Herchel - herchel.com - @mikeherchel

MOTW

Config Pages
At some point I was tired of creating custom pages using menu and form API, writing tons of code just to have a page with an ugly form where a client can enter some settings, and as soon as a client wants to add some interactions to the page (drag&drop, ajax etc) things starts to get hairy. The same story was with the creation of dedicated CT just to theme a single page (like homepage) and explaining why you can only have 1 node of this type, or force it programmatically.