Weds Feb 17th 2021 - Reducing Carbon Emissions

Timings

  • 18:30 – Join us for a chat
  • 19:00 – Introduction
  • 19:05 – Tips on How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Digital Activities - Hannah Smith (@hanopcan)
  • 20:15ish – End

Free tickets are available on Meetup.

This is a free online event, open to all.

We’ll be using Big Orange Heart’s event platform for this event. This works through your web browser and is available to everyone who is RSVP’d at live.bigorangeheart.org.

The platform will be open from 18:30 so feel free to join us for a bit of chat before the event starts at 19:00.

The Talks

Tips on How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Digital Activities

Hannah Smith @hanopcan

Did you know that the internet is thought to produce about the same carbon emissions as the aviation industry’s fuel consumption? And if the internet was a country it would be the seventh biggest polluter in the world. Shocking isn’t?
Digital technology provides wonderful opportunities to reach and engage with others, often in ways that aren’t possible using offline methods. But digital does have a significant environmental cost, which most of us aren’t conscious of.
In this session we’ll discuss why & how digital technologies have an environmental impact, and we’ll share ideas on how to reduce that impact.
Hannah is a freelance WordPress developer from Bristol with a background in Computer Science. Before freelance life, amongst other things, she honed her management skills at the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She’s co-founder of Green Tech South West and is on a mission to raise awareness about the environmental impact of digital tech. She also likes dogs, plants and snow.

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