Designing Your Website to Use Less Energy: Green Energy Websites
Designing Your Website to Use Less Energy: Green Energy Websites

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

Published:

Total Pages: 142

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Designing Your Website to Use Less Energy explores simple changes you can make to your website that will cause it to use less energy. We don't often think about the amount of power being used to surf the Internet, but it's quite a lot. If all websites were designed to use less energy, we could save a lot of energy. One of the most important considerations when designing a website to use less energy is to make it load quickly. Part of that depends on where your website sits - your web host. Part of that depends on your images. Part depends on ads. Part depends on how simply your website is coded. In fact, Google will downgrade your web page in its search algorithm if your web page doesn't load quickly. Designing Your Website to Use Less Energy covers choosing a web host, performance, plug-ins and services, making your own plug-in, energy-saving colors, and printing. Performance covers lessening the impact of images, Javascript, CSS, photo frameworks, and database queries, plus other tricks you can use to make your page load faster. If you're a big corporation, there are tools from Google, Facebook, and Twitter you can use. If you're not a large corporation and don't have a lot of time, this audiobook will help you get your website loading faster and will help you save energy. The more users you have who browse your website, the more energy you'll save. Listening ease: medium. Listening level: eighth grade. Maturity: general audience.

Designing for Sustainability
Designing for Sustainability

Author: Tim Frick

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2016-08-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1491935723

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Pixels use electricity, and a lot of it. If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. That’s because today’s average web page has surpassed two megabytes in size, leading to slow load times, frustrated users, and a lot of wasted energy. With this practical guide, your web design team will learn how to apply sustainability principles for creating speedy, user-friendly, and energy-efficient digital products and services. Author Tim Frick introduces a web design framework that focuses on four key areas where these principles can make a difference: content strategy, performance optimization, design and user experience, and green hosting. You’ll discover how to provide users with a streamlined experience, while reducing the environmental impact of your products and services. Learn why 90% of the data that ever existed was created in the last year Use sustainability principles to innovate, reduce waste, and function more efficiently Explore green hosting, sustainable business practices, and lean/agile workflows Put the right things in front of users at precisely the moment they need them—and nothing more Increase site search engine visibility, streamline user experience, and make streaming video more efficient Use Action Items to explore concepts outlined in each chapter

Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons
Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons

Author: Michael Andersen

Publisher: Michael Andersen

Published: 2023-03-14

Total Pages: 239

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"If you're a climate-conscious but busy web developer wanting to green your practice, Sustainable Web Design in 20 Lessons by Michael Andersen is your ideal starting point. Your day-to-day web development practice can be an impactful climate action: this book will help you make it so" - Ismael Velasco The internet is one of the biggest carbon dioxide polluters in this world. You might not be aware of it, but whenever you open an email, send a chat message, refresh your newsfeed, watch a movie or load a website, you cause pollution. Sustainable Web Design In 20 Lessons is for the web designer and the intermediate website owner. It will teach you what sustainable web design is and give you valuable tools you can use to make your website more sustainable. You will also get introduced to ethical design, which is the art of putting people before business. Together we can make the internet a better place for everyone. Book content: Lesson 1: Sustainable Web Design fundamentals. Lesson 2: Understand carbon footprints. Lesson 3: Green web hosting. Lesson 4: Content delivery networks. Lesson 5: Page-weight budgets. Lesson 6: Death of content. Lesson 7: Accessibility. Lesson 8: Minimalistic & lightweight design. Lesson 9: Dark/light mode & colors. Lesson 10: Image optimization. Lesson 11: Video optimization. Lesson 12: Font optimization. Lesson 13: HTML optimization. Lesson 14: CSS optimization. Lesson 15: JavaScript optimization. Lesson 16: React & Svelte optimization. Lesson 17: Trackers & HTTP requests. Lesson 18: Service workers & Caching. Lesson 19: APIs. Lesson 20: Emails and newsletters.

Gill McGillicutty
Gill McGillicutty

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

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Total Pages: 74

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What would you do if your world was dying? What would you do if you had a vision and perhaps if you followed that vision, you could save your world? What if your vision took you to a new world? Once there you find your soulmate, but she doesn't speak your language and you don't speak hers. Will you keep following your vision wherever it leads you? Will she accept you for who you are? Will she help you save your world? Xeechagillapxtuurii jumps into the raging current to be carried downstream in search of his vision. He finds his vision, including the one he is looking for. But this world is totally foreign to him. Nobody understands him. Somehow he must gain her trust and communicate with them. Somehow he must get her to want to come back to his world to help him save it. Sylvia is a college student. She is holed up in her truck during the storm. When she sees a hippie being driven towards her truck, she responds as she always does when she sees someone or some animal in need. She opens the passenger door and pull some blankets from the back for him to wrap up in. What will she do with this stranger who has entered her life? How will she be able to communicate with him when nobody, not even the language professor can understand him? Rating PG13; Reading Level Very Easy 5th Grade; Longest Word: Representations

The Handbook of Carbon Management
The Handbook of Carbon Management

Author: Petra Molthan-Hill

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-02-27

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 1000831108

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Every manager and every employee in every function can embed climate solutions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book, written by experts in the field of sustainability in business, shows you how. The climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges we face today, and it affects all aspects of business and society. Consequently, everyone needs to know the best high-impact climate solutions that can be embedded into their organisational area. In this book you will find ideas for your team, your department and your organisation to make this a reality. We provide you with implementation plans and inspiring case studies, with practical and helpful tools that will help you to scale up climate solutions effectively and efficiently. If you are an owner of a company or an executive in any organisation, you will benefit from this step-by-step guide on how to set up your own greenhouse gas management plan, how to set targets and how to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of your whole organisation. We explain key terms such as Net Zero, Carbon Neutral, carbon emissions equivalents and the three scopes. In order to halve our emissions worldwide by 2030 to achieve Net Zero by 2050, individual actions on a large scale are required, but also systemic changes. We look at the bigger picture in this book and also how you could effect change. This is the first book to offer an easy-to-implement approach to decarbonise organisations and transform societies, and is appropriate for managers at any level. This book can also be used in business schools to inspire future managers and business leaders. Last, but not least, everyone can find ideas here that they can implement in their personal lives – let’s scale up together!

Red
Red

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

Published: 2022-03-05

Total Pages: 37

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Superheroine Red has a flying machine. She uses it to rescue other superheroes. Her husband Zuper Zero wants his own flying machine. How hard can they be to fly? Surely, there must be several flying machines where Red grew up. If only he and his son can figure out where that is, he'll find a flying machine. But, they have to be sneaky about it. Red would surely discourage them from this pursuit.

Expressive Websites
Expressive Websites

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

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Total Pages: 210

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Is your website blah or bleh? Does it reflect who you or are company truly is? On second thought maybe you just want it to project a certain persona. How can you achieve this? More importantly, how can you achieve this easily? My book Expressive Websites, tells you several ways that you can make your website more expressive. Maybe you want colors or emojis. What about forms and graphs? Simple graphics? Tired of that same old font? Change it or add another. I only use HTML, CSS, and simple cut-and-paste executions of Javascript functions. In this book I tell you how to easily use my Javascript Library to enhance your website. Some people say that all you have to do to make your website less boring is add a video. I think there's a whole lot more to it.

Thunderation
Thunderation

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

Published: 2022-03-25

Total Pages: 33

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A western sci-fi - William has just been dumped again. This time by Diana. She's looking someone who has more Psi ability. William has none. Unknown to Diana, William understands several languages, including Rally Girl. That may not be a good thing in this case because she just introduced her new boyfriend and dissed William. Diana also doesn't know that William works for the top spy agency. And William is about to find out that aliens from outer space have just made contact and threatened the Earth. They have given the people of Earth 7 days to evacuate the planet or they'll destroy it. So, there's the Sci-Fi part - First Contact and Psi Ability. For the Western part, you'll just have to read the story.

Sustainable Graphic Design
Sustainable Graphic Design

Author: Wendy Jedlicka

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-05-28

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 0470640278

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The graphic artist's guide to sustainable design Graphic design is frequently thought of as a purely decorative effort. Yet these efforts can be responsible for shocking impacts on natural resources just to produce a barely-glanced-at catalog or mail piece. Sustainable Graphic Design: Tools, Systems, and Strategies for Innovative Print Design helps designers view graphic design as a holistic process. By exploring eco-conscious materials and production techniques, it shows designers how to create more effective and more sustainable designs. Sustainable Graphic Design opens your eyes to the bigger picture of design seen from the viewpoints of the audience, the creative vendor, their suppliers, and society as a whole. Chapters are written by a wide range of sustainable design pioneers and practitioners—including graphic designers, creative managers, marketing consultants, environmentalists, researchers, and psychologists—giving you critical information on materials and processes. Case studies illustrate and tie concepts together. Sustainability isn't a fad or a movement; it's a long-term paradigm shift. With this forward-looking toolkit, you'll be able to infuse your work with sustainability systems thinking, empowering you to play your role in achieving a future where design and sustainability are natural partners. Contributors Paul Andre Paul J. Beckmann Sharell Benson Arlene Birt Robert Callif Don Carli Jeremy Faludi Terry Gips Fred Haberman Dan Halsey Jessica Jones Curt McNamara John Moes Jacquelyn Ottman Holly Robbins Pamela Smith Dion Zuess Biomimicry Guild Carbonless Promise Chlorine Free Products Association Environmental Paper Network Eureka Recycling Great Printer Environmental Initiative Package Design Magazine Promotional Product Solutions Sustainable Green Printing Partnership Sustainable Packaging Coalition

Make Your Home Free of Toxic Chemicals
Make Your Home Free of Toxic Chemicals

Author: Dale Stubbart

Publisher: Dale Stubbart

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Total Pages: 87

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Nobody wants toxic chemicals in their home. However, many people do have such chemicals where they live, but are unaware of these lurking dangers. We live in a culture where toxic chemicals are just a part of life. Or so it sometimes seems. And they just seem to creep into our homes. Once toxic chemicals are in our homes, it may seem daunting, almost impossible, to get them out. We try everything, short of exorcism, to be rid of them. Sometimes nothing seems to work. Over 30 years of attempts, failures, and successes at ridding our homes of toxic chemicals have led to the creation of this plan. It takes a lot of work. And you will no doubt be overwhelmed by it at first. But the plan does work. And the end results are worth both the time and the effort. Removing toxic chemicals from a home often results in the inhabitants being better able to breathe, being sick less often, and having more energy. It takes time. But it can be accomplished step by step. Do as much as you can. And do what works for you. Then move on to the next step. You may need to come back to the first steps and perform the remaining tasks. But eventually, you will work out what works for you. You will work out what rids your home from toxic chemicals to the point that you can live at peace with your home again.