Fad or relevant?
Marketing bullshit that appeals to some low-information, vibes-based liberals.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2024
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Greenwashing for profit.
Greenwashing, can't believe this even is a question
If this encourages light, fast loading pages, I'm all for it.
The future is no JavaScript!!
I wish.
Lies are good if I like one of the outcomes they promote!
It was kind of a joke response.
My website is running off of spare resources on my 10w router, and yet my 30w monitor that I've been using for 10+ years still says that I've saved exactly 0.0 trees every time I turn it on. Thank you, now please fuck off with that bullshit.
Whatever it is, itβs a joke. Things like this just take the focus off the people actually causing the problem.
Yeah, this goes into the same bin as carbon offset. Just because you had a couple trees planted in one part of the world you should not be allowed to polute the rivers in another part of the world.
It's completely negligible compared to industrial manufacturing, bitcoin mining, waste, etc.
Make a lighter website because no one gives a shit about a heavy one.
I recently saw it reported that Crypto was 2% of US electric use.
That's a whole lot of wasted processing, silicon, heat and energy.
What the hell is a green website
Is it too difficult to post some context?
This appears to be the calculator: https://www.websitecarbon.com/
And it only appears to check the size of downloaded assets and then whether the hosting provider is known to use renewables. Indeed not terribly exhaustive or useful.
Out of curiosity I've let it rate Low<-Tech Magazine, a website run on an ARM SBC powered exclusively with off-grid solar power, and that only achieves 87% / A.
Eheh nice one to test! If there's a 100% it should be that one
Same as "carbon footprint" - meaningless greenwashed bullshit there to shift focus away from those responsible, and the true scale of the damage they're causing for money.
If anything - seeing that kind of certification would make me actively avoid a company because you know they're at best using it to virtue signal for profits, at worst and more likely, they're using it to cover up much much worse shit they're doing.
If ESG is anything to go by, just a greenwashing fad they'll drop as soon as it doesn't have the desired effect
relevant if it sabotages coal mining infrastructure
Mostly seems a bit silly but I think if people were making any sort of large decisions based on it, I would probably raise an eyebrow. But I like the idea of people considering the environmental impact of everything they do. Crypto Bros sure couldβve used that lesson.
Itβs not like itβs doing any harm unless people put too much stock into it. Like the energy star rating on my HVAC unit - itβs just information to me. Itβs not like Iβm making major decisions based off of it or getting the feel goods. No reason this canβt be like that.
Huh? 
How tf can my website produce less than 0g pf emissions?
It is about as useful as a bullshit milkshake is to a vegan.
We are getting dumber
ecosia
Virtue signalling at its worst. It's completely meaningless.
HTTP, serving properly tagged semantic HTML file, with optional styling via CSS, and if you really want JavaScript for animations and live updates.
Thank you.
I've never seen an example of "properly tagged semantic HTML" or truly optional CSS outside of toy examples meant to illustrate the concept.
But it doesn't matter, because serving website content is an utterly insignificant to contributor to global warming.
A lot of websites use html tags correctly, especially some of the better news websites