Low-Carbon-Computing-Teaching-Resources

Contributors

This list has been initiated by the Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing theme at the University of Glasgow.

List of contributors:

• Prof Dr Wim Vanderbauwhede.

It is maintained by Dr. Jonathan Grizou.

Papers and articles

Articles

• Frugal Computing -- On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing
• Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing's Responsibility
• Low Carbon Computing is Needed
• Karlskrona manifesto
• Green by Default
• Green Mode Design

Papers

• The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations
• Sustainable Computing -- Without the Hot Air
• The overlooked environmental footprint of increasing Internet use
• The energy and greenhouse-gas implications of internet video streaming in the United States
• All you can stream: Investigating the role of user behavior for greenhouse gas intensity of video streaming
• Streaming, Multi-Screens and YouTube: The New (Unsustainable) Ways of Watching in the Home
• Recalibrating global data center energy-use estimates

Tools: visualisation, carbon calculators

• Zoom Emissions Calculator
• Electricity Maps -- Climate Impact by Area
• Carbon footprint calculator
• Every Google search results in CO2 emissions. This real-time data viz shows how much

Teaching materials, APIs

Cloud Carbon Footprint

Cloud Carbon Emissions Measurement and Analysis Tool

• https://www.cloudcarbonfootprint.org
• https://github.com/cloud-carbon-footprint/cloud-carbon-footprint

CodeCarbon

Estimate and track carbon emissions from your compute, quantify and analyze their impact.

• https://codecarbon.io/
• http://dashboard.codecarbon.io/
• https://github.com/mlco2/codecarbon

Green Algorithms

How green are your computations?

• http://www.green-algorithms.org/
• https://github.com/GreenAlgorithms/green-algorithms-tool

Green Software Foundation

We are building a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling and best practices for Green software.

• https://greensoftware.foundation/
• https://patterns.greensoftware.foundation/
• https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/carbon-aware-sdk
• https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/awesome-green-software

The Green Web Foundation

Green Your Website -- Green Your Practice

• https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/
• https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation

Hubblo

Assess, monitor and reduce the environmental impacts of digital technologies of your organization

• https://hubblo.org/
• https://github.com/hubblo-org/scaphandre

KDE

KDE Eco - Building Energy-Efficient Free Software

• https://eco.kde.org/
• https://invent.kde.org/teams/eco/feep

Website Carbon Calculator

Estimate your web page carbon footprint

• https://www.websitecarbon.com/
• https://www.websitecarbon.com/api

Courses

• Microsoft course: The Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering
• Ghent University Sustainable Computing [E034500] CoursepSpec

Resources

• Awesome Earth: resource aggregator
• Code for All civic tech network
• ClimateAction.tech community of practice
• Teach the Future
• Students Organising for Sustainability