Digital sustainability from code to cloud
Digital sustainability from code to cloud
Principles and practices
About the Book
Digital Sustainability: From Principles to Practice is a field guide for anyone who designs, builds, or manages information technology.
Split into three parts, it first grounds you in the essentials: defining sustainability, introducing systems‑ and critical‑thinking tools, and mapping today’s environmental and social impact of IT.
Next, it turns theory into action with hands‑on chapters on green‑minded design, carbon‑smart coding, low‑impact infrastructure, and humane user experience.
Finally, it zooms out to examine ideas such as digital degrowth and hands the baton to you, the practitioner, with checklists and best‑practice templates in the appendix.
Read it to understand the stakes, master the methods, and bring genuinely sustainable decisions into every digital project you touch.
This book is work in progress, comments anac@zeland.dk are appreciated.
Additional chapters will be released over the next few months, as we are writing them.
Support the development of the book buy buying a copy. The finished book is expected to land late 2025.
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter overview
- Happy reading!
- Part one
- 1. Setting the stage: Fundamental concepts of sustainability and digital development
- Why is sustainability urgently important right now?
- Fundamental sustainability concepts
- Environmental aspects of sustainability: energy and materials
- Organizations shape our sustainable future
- Societal - and individual - aspects of sustainability
- A more sustainable digital future
- Bringing it together: Key insights from this chapter
- Introduction
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