4. “Without major paradigm shiftsin technological development, the growth in both usage and footprint is likely to continue as more and more people worldwide enter the digital age.” Source: Smart 2020 report (http://www.smart2020.org/)
5. Source: UCSD Energy Dashboard (http://energy.ucsd.edu/) See also: YuvrajAgarwal, Stefan Savage and Rajesh Gupta, SleepServer: A Software-Only Approach for Reducing the Energy Consumption of PCs within Enterprise Environments, In: Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Boston, MA, June 2010 (http://mesl.ucsd.edu/yuvraj/research/sleepserver.html)
6. “Just browsing a basic website generates about 20mg of CO₂ per second.” “With rich animation and video up to 300mg per second.” “Dominant contribution to this footprint comes from the electricity consumed by visitors computers.” Source: Alexander Wissner-Gross, How you can help reduce the footprint of the Web, Times Online, 11 January 2009 (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article5488934.ece)
7. They do it for washing machines… Why not for web browsing PCs? Introducing… Mozilla Firefox’s Softwaste-o-meter!
8. Benefit #1 Making people aware of the link between the design of the Web, the use of energy and the World we live in. Inspirations: http://www.greenit.fr/article/energie/combien-de-co2-degage-un-1-kwh-electrique http://www.carbon.to/
9. Benefit #2 Energy-efficient software results in leaner and faster websites, providing a more interactive user experience. Inspiration: http://www.greenit.fr/article/logiciels/green-challenge-serez-vous-a-la-hauteur
10. Partnering… Measuring server-side of softwaste production http://www.co2stats.com/ http://www.greenalytics.org/ Measuring client-side of softwaste production http://sites.google.com/a/octo.com/green-challenge/outils/greenfox