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So what does it mean by "the website is hosted green"? It seems to me that this is just a list of website hosts known to be green by some criteria, regardless o

So what does it mean by "the website is hosted green"? It seems to me that this is just a list of website hosts known to be green by some criteria, regardless of whether the website will eat your CPU with tons of scripts or communicate with N different services?

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
I think it's carbon intensity of the hosting they're trying to document, but not totally sure. The site with the article does have an interesting quirk where it can serve different content based on current carbon intensity of the grid. https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-1/designing-branch-sustainable-interaction-design-principles/ https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-1/designing-b...
it_citizen 4y ago
Both my websites pass the tests because they are hosted on SAP (through Heroku). It seems that they just have to be partners of the website and to provide "proofs" that I could not find listed on the website: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/partner-up/ https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/partner-up/ https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory/#962 https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/directory/#962 Sounds very weak to me from the outside.