Environment Variables The Week in Green Software: Hourly Carbon Accounting
Mar 26, 2026
47:15
This Week in Green Software, hosts Oli, Adi, and Valeria explore the growing importance of hourly carbon accounting and what it means for building truly sustainable software. They discuss how moving beyond annual averages to real-time energy data can unlock more accurate insights, better decision-making, and smarter workload placement. The conversation highlights the challenges of measurement, the role of tooling and standards, and why aligning software systems with cleaner energy in the moment could be a key step toward reducing digital emissions.
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- Aditya Manglik: LinkedIn | GitHub | Website
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News:
- GSF’s Response to GHG Protocol: Advocating for Hourly Carbon Accounting | GSF [03:11]
- Big Tech Says Generative AI Will Save the Planet. It Doesn’t Offer Much Proof | Wired [19:25]
- Developer engagement in open-source software’s green transition | Nature
- Display: green; applying the web sustainability guidelines - Hidde de Vries - CSS Day 2025 | YouTube
Resources:
- GHG Protocol [03:27]
- What Central Park’s Squirrel Census says about conservation tech | Mongabay [30:54]
Events:
- GreenOps PowerBI Dashboard | 7 Apr 6:30pm CEST (Karlsruhe - Hybrid) [44:25]
- Green IO Singapore Conference | 14-15 Apr (Singapore) [45:24]
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