Created in 2004, the Green IT collective is the association (under the 1901 law) that brings together the experts behind the digital sustainability, responsible digital, digital service eco-design and slow.tech approaches.
The collective is also interested in lowtech, and more generally in an alternative, more enviable digital future for our children. The Green IT collective is a forum for reflection on the issues surrounding the meeting of digital technology and sustainable development, commonly referred to as responsible digital technology.
For 20 years, GreenIT.fr has been producing books, exclusive studies, methods, benchmarks, operational tools, guides, glossaries, white papers, etc. to help individuals, organisations and public authorities take action. All these tools are benchmarks.
Recommended books#
- Ecoconception web - les 115 bonnes pratiques: a reference guide that is easy to understand and use.
- Tendre vers la sobriété numérique: a book that looks at the environmental footprint of our digital uses and how we can reduce it.
- Sobriété numérique - Les clés pour agir: A very enjoyable book, explaining the environmental impact of digital technology and how we can improve our usage and resilience in the face of the dwindling resources needed to build our equipment (television, computers, smartphones, etc.).
Recommended studies#
- Empreinte environnementale du numérique mondial, 2019 data, EENM
- Le numérique en Europe: une approche des impacts environnementaux par l’analyse du cycle de vie, 2021 data, NumEU
- Les impacts environnementaux du numérique en France en 2050, 2023 data, Acerp-Ademe
- Evaluation de l’impact environnemental du numérique en France, 2022 data, Acerp-Ademe
Tools#
The Green IT collective provides a very useful toolbox for both individuals and businesses. The tools I warmly recommend are:
- The eco Index, a website that lets you quickly assess the environmental impact of a web page and grade it with a score from A to G.
- The Green IT Analysis extension allows developers to go deeper in the analysis that the EcoIndex can do. You can measure the environmental impact of an entire digital service and make recommendations for improving that impact.
- The Green IT Benchmark, is an annual study carried out by the experts of the collective and their partners with organisations interested in evaluating their impact within a European and global scope and defining a plan for improvements.
- The repository of 74 Green IT best practices and the associated checklist to get you started on improving your organisation’s impact.
- The 115 ecodesign best practice sheets and an Excel spreadsheet which you can then use to automatically calculate the maturity score.