Your country: Netherlands
Low carbon usage: unknown
your co2 usage: 0CO2E

Your country: Netherlands
Low carbon usage: unknown
your co2 usage: 0CO2E

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A sustainable initiative by

Sustainable
Digital Design

Welcome to

Sustainable Digital Design

Do you know what the environmental impact is of your online activities? Every video streamed, data transfer, crypto exchange leaves a physical mark on our planet.

Sustainable Digital Design is an environmentally conscious platform where resources are shared, experiments conducted, and findings implemented all with the goal to minimise our digital carbon footprint.

About

How sustainable is this platform?

Before the design and development of this platform, extensive research was done to find out which actions should be taken to make the platform as sustainable as possible. From the system fonts to the contrasting colours and benchmarking animation techniques, the overall goal was to reduce the page weight and energy consumption.

Icons used across the platform are combined in an SVG sprite sheet so that there is only one file transfer. The non-system font is reduced to only the letters used in the platform.

After having benchmarked the animation techniques, we chose for the best file type for this use case. The home screen animation was converted from a 158kb JSON file to a 45kb dotlottie file (a new and more compressed Lottie file type). The site is regularly checked to identify any actions that trigger excessive energy consumption/ CPU wake-ups.

Calculations

What is the energy consumption of this platform?

There are number of ways to calculate the estimated energy consumption of a website. For this platform we chose to focus on data transfer and the carbon intensity of electricity.

As a single user, you can be using energy from multiple (energy)sources. The ‘low carbon usage’ that is being shown refers to the percentage of renewable and nuclear energy used by the country of your current location. The co2e usage is based on the actual CO2 equivalent emitted by a visitor loading this website, since each byte that is being transfered across the internet uses a certain amount of energy, which then emmits a certain amount of CO2e (depending on the energy (and low carbon usage) of your country).

About us

Who is behind this project?

The team at Wonderland Studio. A brand and digital design service studio working to create meaningful value for people and the planet through impactful experiences.

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Upcoming

What's next?

Research and experiments are currently underway to build the main Sustainable Digital Design platform. This will house a laboratory, arcade, studio and library to educate users on how to reduce their digital carbon footprint. For the time being, please enjoy this soft launch that will introduce you to the world of digital sustainability.

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A sustainable initiative by

Wonderland

Are you ready to take the quiz?

Hello visitor

Take our quiz to see what you know about the impact of the digital world on our environment.

True or False

question 01 00

Streaming videos online through services like Netflix, Amazon Prime, or Youtube is better for the environment than watching TV.

True or False

question 02 00

Your personal online activities have little to no impact on our total digital carbon footprint. It's just a drop in the ocean.

Multiple Choice

question 03 00

Which of these foods are expected to go extinct by 2050?

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Spread the word

The more people know about digital sustainability, the more we can make small changes and practice what we preach.

If you believe in the cause, please feel free to share this post on your socials so that we have more reach!

Card with text: replacing you phone less often can save unnecessary CO2 because the production phase takes up 80% of the total carbon emissions.

Card with text: dimming you monitor to 70% can save up to 20% of the energy the monitor uses.

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Climate change is exacerbating our planet, and it's important to understand how to reduce the digital realms negative impact. With 51 percent of the world’s population still lacking access to the internet, the future of digital is at a critical point.

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