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Eco-Design Web Development

Some Key Points

• 1 newsletter = 10 grams of CO2 VS.
• Spam’s carbon footprint = annual emissions of 3.1 million cars

What is more effective and more sustainable? one newsletter or spam emails? from the data it seems quite clear that one well written newsletter is more effective and sustainable than a spam campaign.

• 15 000 km = average distance covered by an email
• 281 billion = number of emails sent every day in the world
• 1 vacation photo of 1 Mb to 10 friends = 500 m with a car
• Between 10,000 and 50,000 unread emails in an inbox

Consider optimisation of your emails. Before writing several one-word-emails, consider putting all the info together into one email. This saves CO2 emission and also your nerves when checking all your emails.

• 1 google query = one 60 W light bulb turned on for 17 seconds
• Digital industry = 2% of global C02 emissions
• 5G will be 90% more efficient than 4G.
• server, storage and networking equipment, which can be upgraded with new or refurbished or third party components enables the same performance as new ones, without the cost of replacing your entire system.

In general we can state that choosing the sustainable option doesn’t mean compromising on quality – in fact it is quite the opposite. Recent research with the University of East London proves that refurbished servers perform as well as new servers, and in some cases outperform the current generation. Although this research focused on servers, the paper discusses the performance of CPUs, which are also within laptops and desktops.
Last but not least, the ultimate outcome and benefit for your company is a conspicuous saving of money.