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Announcing a.green:focus

Announcing a.green:focus

Lifting the lid on my latest project to make conferences more eco-friendly, as well as some other ideas to encourage green thinking on the Web.

Paul Robert Lloyd

April 18, 2009
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  1. Welcome!
    The Multipack Presents: Being Green

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  2. This Annoyed Me…

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  3. The SXSW ‘Big Bag’
    Photo
    Eric Hodel: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drbrain/421910167/

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  4. The SXSW ‘Big Bag’
    Photo
    Joey Parsons: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeyparsons/3352561284/

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  5. The Response?

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  6. Cool! Free Shit!
    Photo
    Julian Joseph: http://www.flickr.com/photos/julian88tex/3351053454/

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  7. When it comes to the
    environment, we’re some of
    the worst offenders

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  8. Jetting around the world to attend
    conferences and social events
    Using tools that consume lots of energy, leaving
    them on when no longer needed
    Always upgrading to the latest hardware
    Building sites that use inefficient code (linking
    to libraries and frameworks)

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  9. Yet, we have the skills and
    tools to make a change

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  10. Design interfaces that are easy to use
    Build websites accessible to all
    Organise communities and build networks

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  11. So What Can We Do?

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  12. a.green:focus

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  13. A grassroots coalition of web developers
    working together to reduce our industry’s impact
    on the environment

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  14. Build products that encourage and/or help
    people become more environmentally friendly
    Promote individuals and companies that are
    setting good examples
    Campaign against those that are not

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  15. Think: The Web Standards Project yet not
    promoting standards, but encouraging people
    within our industry to reduce their impact on the
    environment

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  16. http://agreenfocus.org
    @agreenfocus

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  17. Initial Ideas

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  18. Carbon Pledge: Like TweetCC but for signing
    environmental commitments instead of content
    licences
    Petitions: Encourage conference organisers to stop
    providing swag
    Wasteful Commons: A library of photos & video
    that document examples of waste
    Blog Meme: 10 Green Things

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  19. I Need Your Help
    Obviously!

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  20. Web paulrobertlloyd.com
    E-mail [email protected]
    Twitter @paulrobertlloyd

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