Sustainable Tech
The Sustainable Tech section is here to help you use technology in ways that support both your wellbeing and the planet. Let’s explore this hopeful world.
Coding
Green Software Engineering Basics: Strategies & Impact
Green software engineering is a discipline that teaches you how to design, build, and deploy software that minimizes carbon emissions.
Energy-Efficient Code: Foundational Guide to Saving Power
Energy-efficient code reduces computational waste by using optimized algorithms, minimizing redundant operations, and selecting appropriate tools.
Low-Power Coding Techniques: Maximizing Efficiency
Low-power coding techniques are methods that minimize unnecessary switching activity and optimize how data moves through digital systems.
Data Center Energy Use: Figures and Sustainable Solutions
Data center energy use – approximately 176 terawatt-hours in 2023, representing about 4.4% of the country’s total annual electricity consumption.
Digital Minimalism for Students: Strategies for Success
Digital minimalism for students means intentionally choosing which digital tools truly support your learning while removing those that distract.
Starting a Green Tech Career: Guide to an Impactful Future
Starting a green tech career combines your technical skills with meaningful environmental impact, and the field is projected to create many jobs.
Beginner Green Coding Tools and Sustainable Software
Green coding tools help you measure and reduce the energy consumption and carbon emissions of your software, making sustainability part of your process.
AI Sustainability: Environmental Impacts & Solutions
AI Sustainability: AI functions as a tool whose impact depends entirely on how we design, deploy, and regulate it.
Right to Repair Basics: Access, Laws, and Consumer Rights
Right to Repair is a movement advocating for your legal right to fix and modify the products you own, without being going through the original manufacturer.