Code that Won't Heat the Planet: Engineering Sustainable Software for a Better Future
summary
Tech sector contributes nontrivially — data centers and networks are about 0.6–1% of global GHGs — and many practical levers exist: a phone’s embodied carbon is ~74 kg, cloud spend wastes ~30%, and device lifetimes shrink so software choices matter. The demo runs the open-source Cloud Carbon Footprint tool reading billing data across three clouds, producing CO2, energy and money forecasts plus concrete deletion/right‑sizing recommendations; live carbon intensity comes from electricityMap for demand‑shaping and region-aware scheduling.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Start
- 2:52Tech (alone) won't save us
- 6:55Maturity levels in organizations
- 12:08Cross team accountability
- 13:12What is this thing called Green Software?
- 16:26Cloud computing
- 17:57Carbon Awareness
- 18:37Product Development
- 21:00Hardware efficiency
- 22:22Embodied carbon
- 24:54Carbon intensity
- 26:33Demand shaping
- 28:20Green Software Foundation
- 28:55SCI Framework
- 30:05Carbon efficiency as a CFR
- 30:45Cloud Vendors Carbon Monitoring Tools
- 32:06Cloud Carbon Footprint
- 32:37Methodology
- 33:47What can you do?
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