Article: Save the planet through sustainable web design by .net magazine
Topic: Sustainable Web Design
Synopsis: "Every website has its own carbon footprint. In regards to web design, sustainability is about layout, art, software, platforms, hosts, teams and business models. Sustainable web design meets the current needs of its users, without compromising the ability of those needs to be met in the future. A sustainable internet should be open to an expanding audience, while not reducing future access to its services. At a detailed technical level, we have articles promoting the meta X-UA-Compatible property as a sustainable strategy for handling legacy web browsers."
More Reading:
Sustainable strategies for the mobile web (video) by Jesper Waldiche
Design is the Problem (Book) by Nathan Shedroff (site has blog)
Design & Sustainability (PDF) by Jason Pearson (his TruthStudio site has visualizations)
Article: Sustainable Web Design and the Yoke Approach by Yoke
Sustainability is often mistaken as synonymous with "green" or environmentally friendly. Ecological sustainability is not the only consideration, for a product to be truly sustainable it must consider social and economic implications as well as ecological ones. A sustainable website serves its purpose effectively and can be managed and continued into the future without negative impacts to the environment, website users or the owner. Core areas of web sustainability include efficiency, openness and designing for good.
Article: Sustainable Web Design: A Blog Series by Tim Frick
Article: 12 Steps to Sustainable Web Design by InspiredMag
Article: Making the Web a Better Place: Guidelines for "Green" Web Design by Alison Fay Binney, Smashing Magazine
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