Sustainability

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W3C has several environmental sustainability (s12y) related efforts, and there have been a few sustainability focused sessions at W3C meetings.

This page is also the home page for the overall W3C Sustainability Community Group, which you may join here:

Discussion

Join discussion on sustainability on:

  • #sustainability on W3C Community Slack
  • #sustainability on W3C IRC

Work Areas

The following work areas of interest were identified at the 2022 s12y CG meeting / breakout session at TPAC 2022, with participants eager to work on each:

Technologies to reduce energy usage

Focusing more on new technologies, or new adoption of technologies that could reduce internet use of energy. E.g.:

  • multicast

Participants interested in working on this:

  • James Holland
  • Yoav Weiss

W3C meetings and operations

What are the impacts of W3C meetings and operations meetings on sustainability? E.g.

  • W3C servers, hosting
  • in-person meetings
    • flights to/from meetings
    • hotel overhead

Observations:

  • We wouldn’t want to discourage anyone from flying here to help solve the sustainability problem, focus on what’s most important to the problem.
  • We should not get distracted by it, focus on where we can have a bigger impact.

Areas of opportunity:

  • scalability of a good hybrid meetings solution

Participants interested in working on this:

  • Judy Brewer — Good hybrid meeting techniques, and sharing awesome research showing the scalable carbon savings from hybrid
  • Nick Doty

Measurement

What can we measure and how can we communicate those measurements relating to energy usage? E.g. things to measure:

  • servers could report how much energy, what kinds of energy going into producing this content
  • what are the different variables, what are the blind spots
  • data being presented to end users (W3C is not very good at exposing data to users to help make decisions)

Participants interested in working on this:

  • James Holland — Akamai has a sustainability commitment, if I can get access to a good standard for reporting usage I will push measurement within akamai and return feedback on problems with applying the metrics if possible
  • Mike Prorock
  • Yoav Weiss
  • Ivan Herman
  • AramZS
  • Phil Archer — by which I mean certified measurements against defined method

System Effects

What are the system level effects, and systemic aspects that we can investigate, understand, and work to solve at higher level to have a greater impact overall?

  • Any meaningful response has to be at the system effects
  • Make it easy for people, users, consumers to see impacts of what they’re doing, so they can each take action in scalable distributed ways

Participants interested in working on this:

  • Tantek Çelik
  • James Graham
  • Mike Prorock

Horizontal Review

  • must be obtainable
  • start with a checklist or questionnaire like the Security & Privacy Questionnaire
  • make it lightweight

Participants interested in working on this:

  • Tantek Çelik
  • Valerie Young
  • Nick Doty

Principles

  • Principles document would be most useful
  • Documents that can be shared with organizations for them to share internally and prioritize their own efforts accordingly

Participants interested in working on this:

  • Tantek Çelik
  • James Graham
  • Max Gendler
  • Tzviya Siegman
  • AramZS
  • Nick Doty

Sustainable Web Design

Draft Sustainable Web Design sustyweb) CG charter: https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/2022/09/06/sustainability-community-group-charter/

Participants interested in working on this:

  • Tim Frick - co-chair

Works in progress

Sessions

Groups

Sustainability CG

Created on Earth Day 2022 with the W3C #sustainability community on Slack!

The W3C Sustainability CG is focused on the sustainability of web technologies in general (rather than a specific use like a website), present & future (proposals etc.), and evaluating them from a horizontal review perspective.

Current primary goal: establish and help evaluate environmental sustainability of new web technology proposals, similar to the horizontal reviews of accessibility, internationalization, privacy, and security.

Reference re: purposes of Sustainability efforts: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-council/2022Apr/0004.html

SustyWeb CG

Other community groups

Past (groups)

Links to Media of Interest

Articles, podcasts and other media about sustainability that the W3C Sustainability CG has found of interest:

Potential External Collaborators

Folks outside of the W3C interested in sustainability (processes unvetted thus far)

See Also

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