There seems to be a lot of information out there about how to reduce your negative impact with print design and product design, but does anyone out there know of any resources pointing toward better ways of designing for the digital world? Are there ways to make a website or digital tool less energy hungry?

As I mentioned before in the other Green Hosting post: CO2Stats.com (found under Resources) is a great way to calculate your website’s environmental footprint and finds ways to make your site more energy-efficient and automatically purchases renewable energy to make it carbon neutral.

Also, Don Carli’s White paper: Print vs. Digital Media: False Dilemmas and Forced Choices? is very eye-opening. http://bit.ly/b7li76 It talks about all forms of communications both print and digital use energy and materials. We should consider the lifecycle impacts of each, become informed about the energy sources used along with the impact on the economy, the environment and society.