B Corp Month 2021 Interview – Richard Tang from Zen Internet

18 March 2021

Green Elephant Show

B Corp Month 2021 Interview - Richard Tang from Zen Internet

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Hello and welcome to our special series of Green Elephant interviews during March 2021, supporting the annual B Corps month. B Corporations, or B Corps for short, are businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, public transparency, and legal accountability to balance profit and purpose

Green Elephant Episode 3 - Green Websites

003 Green Websites – Can a website ever be green?

19 July 2020

Green Elephant Show

003 Green Websites - Can a website ever be green?

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Overview Nearly everyone has their own or uses a website. But are these green websites? In this episode we delve into the world of internet and websites, discuss a little of what makes the internet function (and consume so much energy) before finally diving into individual websites. Sit back, listen

Google searches use same energy as a light bulb

Single Google search could power a low-energy light bulb for an hour

18 July 2020

Each search will vary slightly and Google searches may have become more efficient in the last decade. Source: https://fullfact.org/environment/google-search/

Sending one less email would take thousands of cars off the road

One less email takes 3334 cars off the road

18 July 2020

If every adult in the UK sent one less “thank you” email, it could save 16,433 tonnes of carbon a year – the equivalent to taking 3,334 diesel cars off the road a typical business user creates 135kg (298lbs) CO2e from sending emails every year, which is the equivalent of driving 200

All the devices and gadgets you use have a carbon footprint

Carbon footprint of gadgets account for 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions

18 July 2020

The carbon footprint of our gadgets, the internet and the systems supporting them account for about 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions It is similar to the amount produced by the airline industry globally, Source: https://theshiftproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Lean-ICT-Report_The-Shift-Project_2019.pdf Source: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200305-why-your-internet-habits-are-not-as-clean-as-you-think

Youtube streaming uses large amounts of energy

Single Youtube video burns energy equal to 40,000 homes

18 July 2020

The music video for “Despacito” set an Internet record in April 2018 when it became the first video to hit five billion views on YouTube. In the process, “Despacito” reached a less celebrated milestone: it burned as much energy as 40,000 U.S. homes use in a year. Computer servers, which

Communications industry uses large amount of worlds energy

The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025

18 July 2020

The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital data from billions of smartphones, tablets and internet-connected devices grows exponentially. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/tsunami-of-data-could-consume-fifth-global-electricity-by-2025

Watching 30 minutes of Netflix is the same as driving almost four miles

18 July 2020

The emissions generated by watching 30 minutes of Netflix (1.6 kg of CO2) is the same as driving almost four miles in the coming decade, a significant risk exists that rapidly growing demand for information services—and compute-intensive applications like AI in particular—will begin to outpace the efficiency gains that have

If the internet was a  country, it would rank  sixth for electricity usage

18 July 2020

If data centers and other digital infrastructure are 100% renewably powered, our increasing reliance on the internet can actually accelerate our transition to a renewably powered economy. But, if our growing digital infrastructure is built in the opposite direction, locking us into a dramatic increase in the demand for electricity

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B Corp Month 2021 Interview – Richard Tang from Zen Internet

003 Green Websites – Can a website ever be green?

Single Google search could power a low-energy light bulb for an hour

One less email takes 3334 cars off the road

Carbon footprint of gadgets account for 3.7% of global greenhouse emissions

Single Youtube video burns energy equal to 40,000 homes

The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025

Watching 30 minutes of Netflix is the same as driving almost four miles

If the internet was a  country, it would rank  sixth for electricity usage

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