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How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 3: Email)

This series of blog posts already covered the carbon footprint of website and video content. To get an overall overview of one’s digital content carbon footprint, one can also consider communication content like emails. An approach to such calculations is presented in the following. The carbon footprint of emails The… Read More »How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 3: Email)

How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 2: Video)

If you want to calculate your personal carbon footprint of digital content, you can consider different content formats, such as video, audio, images and text. Of these formats, video is the format of content that is most energy-intensive. Measuring the carbon footprint of video, however, is difficult, because it is… Read More »How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 2: Video)

How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 1: Website)

With different regulations and initiatives arising, reporting of sustainability measures becomes a growing issue to organisations of various sizes. While currently the greenhouse gas emissions of office electricity and business travel or those of suppliers are being taken into consideration, not much effort is devoted to calculating the carbon footprint… Read More »How to Calculate the Carbon Footprint of Digital Content (Part 1: Website)