Idea: MDN Green - resource section for designing and developing sustainable software

In Google’s 2022 Cloud Sustainability Survey, 65% of IT executives want to improve sustainability efforts but don’t know how to do it and 36% say they lack tools to track progress toward sustainability goals, and just 17% say they are using those measurements to optimize based on results. Google predicts that by 2025, 3 of 4 developers will lead with sustainability as their primary development principle.

Mozilla MDN Green could be a resource section on MDN for tools, strategies, standards, and impacts of developing more environmentally friendly code - optimizing images, minimizing unnecessary compute, caching, creating low-bandwidth page design, [insert your idea here].

Cloud compute, AI, blockchain, and other energy-hungry computational tasks are predicted to vastly increase in the coming years. Keeping these services running will require businesses and individuals to have more effective strategies and tools for managing energy consumption in order to meet climate objectives and mitigate rising energy costs, restrictions, and scarcities.

Also - would it be possible to have something like “environment” or “sustainability” as valid tags for posts in this forum?

Hi @mheavers and welcome to the community :wave:

This sounds like an interesting idea. Since here are mostly volunteers helping each other, I recommend starting a discussion on the GitHub Repo:

There are the technically writers who would decide about such a project.

Have a nice day,
Michael

Thanks! Posted there.

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