Sustainability statement
Last Updated: Tue Apr 26 2022 02:58:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
🌏 We are committed to making sure our websites and mobile applications have as little impact on the planet as possible.
Sustainability principles
- Providers & technologies are chosen based sustainability first.
- Development is done with 100% renewable energy on premise
- JAMStack/Static site generation with Eleventy means this site uses shared server resources and requires almost no cloud compute to maintain. This reduces energy consumption in the short term and results in less ewaste in the long term
- Efforts are made to optimise & make the site faster for you. We aim to conserve bandwidth and reduce the time and energy required to download this site. We also aim to minimise client-side scripting to save your battery.
Third party services
- Code hosting on Github has been carbon neutral since 2019 and aims to be 100% renewable by 2025
- Web hosting on Cloudflare Pages runs on 100% renewable energy
- Google Adsense provides ads for this site, but does not have an official sustainability policy. A portion of the advertising proceeds is donated to Rainforest Rescue to preserve and reforest the Daintree in North Queensland.