Sustainable Website Guide

Are you a website designer, or small business owner with a passion for conscious and sustainable practises? Then you need to consider the impact your digital products can have on the environment, and understand how to design sustainable websites.

Wait... what?! How are websites unsustainable?
Websites result in huge energy use, water consumption and land use changes 🌐 Caused by global infrastructure required to run the internet 🧱 Rapid growth of digital development means these impacts will become far more severe over the next decade 📈
 
It’s time businesses took responsibility for their websites environmental impact ✅ If you’re a small business owner or web designer, become a pioneer of green web design by considering these core concepts when designing and building a website.

This Green Web Guide takes you through the core concepts in green web design, enables you to audit your current site, calculate the carbon footprint, and has all the tips on reducing the important information needed to set your client up for digital success. They'll feel empowered, informed and able to do basic web tasks themselves, if need be.

This template is best for people who want to feel empowered to create sustainable and aligned websites.

This easy-to-use guide has:
✦ An introduction to Green Web Design theory
✦ Tips on calculating your website carbon impact
✦ Green Web Design checklist for both front end and back end of sites
✦ Tips on file size reduction
✦ How to do an 'asset audit'

+PLUS Bonus access to a full presentation deck to dive into the content in more detail 👇🏼

Canva Presentation link shared as a bonus

Workshop presentations covers:

1. Backend setup
2. Front end design tips
3. Sustainable content practices
4. Ethical eCommerce
5. Advocacy for change

The issue

Given that the average website now produces 2g of CO2 for every single page load, green web design really has become the next frontier for sustainable businesses.

This is because websites - and the internet overall - require massive amounts of energy, water, and land clearing. Most of these environmentally exhaustive inputs are used to power, cool down, and create new data centres – needed to enable every click, scroll and interaction online.

The resultant outputs are huge, with the internet’s annual emissions equalling the aviation industry. While there’s been a social crack down on flying, there hasn’t been the equivalent for the internet. This is partly due to the net seeming intangible through language like ‘in the cloud’ and ‘virtual reality’, in addition to the infrastructure that supports it being hidden.

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FAQs and terms

Am I eligible for a refund is this isn't what I'm after?

Yes, of course! If you don't find the template works for you you're eligible for a refund within 48hrs of purchase.

Do I need Notion or Canva to use these?

You can start a free Notion account to duplicate this template, which means you can then edit it and personalise it in your own way. For the Canva presentation, you can view without needing a Canva account.

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