Green Software Foundation

🌍 Join us on Earth Day for a walkthrough with the Carmen (Carbon Measurement Engine) project team. Learn how Carmen works alongside existing tools to provide visibility into emissions across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters, helping practitioners make decisions that reduce both emissions and cloud costs. Register now to attend ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dS6KChax

What if making AI faster consumes more energy, not less? In the latest TWiGS episode of Environment Variables, Aditya Manglik and Valeria Salis explore new research on LLM optimization strategies, and why the speed gains come with an energy trade-off we're not accounting for. Plus a curated roundup of open source tools for measuring energy use in your stack. Listen now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/diwf-mhq

One organization's software emissions data is what another needs for Scope 3 reporting. Right now, most organizations cannot provide it. As software emissions data becomes a procurement requirement, those without a reliable methodology may fall behind competitors who can deliver the numbers. The ISO Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard works alongside existing carbon accounting to produce a specific and consistent SCI score, supporting customers' reporting needs and helping identify where to reduce emissions and costs. Our first white paper in the SCI Standard in Policy series maps SCI to CSRD requirements and outlines a four-phase approach, from defining your software boundary to preparing for audit, with clear guidance on who needs to be involved at each stage. Learn more and read the full paper ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dsQ5gt7R

How can we measure software emissions at scale? Join us on April 22 to explore how Carmen (Carbon Measurement Engine) implements the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard across cloud infrastructure and applications. In this session, we'll demonstrate how Carmen delivers transparent, granular calculations that support better optimization decisions. Walk away with a clear path to measuring software's carbon impact across cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters. Register now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dy5psZ_X

Green software is a global conversation, and you can be a part of it too. 🌐 The GSF Meetup community has grown to 12,350 members across 37 groups in 17 countries. Through the network, we aim to support and connect local Meetup groups, helping build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for green software. And this month, there are still five events you can attend. Find your local group and join the global green software ecosystem ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eQjSbHV4 Aydin Mir Mohammadi Chris Stapper Corina Milosoiu ☁ 🌎 Martin Lippert Mpho Mathabathe-Mala Rasmus Petersen Wilco Burggraaf

Optimizing code is a start. For change to happen industry-wide, we need to agree on standards that set incentives and shape behavior. This week on Environment Variables, Kate Goldenring and Tzviya Siegman reflect on Asim Hussain's (former ED of GSF) journey from skepticism to standards enthusiast and why working on standards is one of the most powerful things you can do in tech. Listen to the full episode ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dH2XrDMY

Agentic systems are redefining how we build software. But without responsible design, we risk creating more waste than value. A recently open-sourced Lean Agentic AI by Navveen Balani highlights the importance of including efficiency in system design from the start. By applying the same discipline to agentic systems that green software applies to software at large, we can focus on making better decisions, with the minimum compute, cost, and carbon necessary. The repo includes practical, ready-to-run Claude Code skills for cost analysis, carbon estimation, and agentic bloat detection. If you’re building agentic systems, this is where you start designing them sustainably ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d6sXJHWm

Everyone agrees that software has a carbon footprint. Few can back it with auditable numbers. 📋 For thousands of European organizations preparing their first CSRD disclosures, software emissions are part of what they need to report, but existing frameworks like the GHG Protocol weren't built to measure at the level of individual software systems. That’s where the ISO Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard fills the gap. Our new white paper maps the SCI standard to CSRD's requirements, showing how it complements GHG accounting to provide the granularity regulators and auditors will expect, and how to get from software energy data to a number you can put in a CSRD report. Learn more and get the full paper on our blog ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dsQ5gt7R

Does "100% renewable" mean what you think it means? 🧐 In the latest episode of Environment Variables, Aditya Manglik, Oliver Winks, and Valeria Salis explore the gap between what organizations report and what's actually happening on the grid. Learn why companies making a genuine effort on renewable energy are still reporting it in a way that undermines their own progress, and why the AI being sold as a climate solution is not the same technology that solves environmental problems. Tune in now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dm3ZZi_F

We rebuilt the GSF website! 🎉 Because the challenges practitioners and organizations are facing are changing fast. From measuring the environmental impact of AI applications, to making software more efficient, to new regulations making software emissions reporting mandatory, to building a sustainability culture across your team—most organizations are solving these alone. Now you don’t have to figure this out on your own. What’s inside: 📖 Member stories: See how organizations like UBS, Accenture, and NTT DATA are measuring and reducing their software emissions, and what they learned along the way. 📄 Research papers: Explore Green AI and how GSF standards help with the upcoming regulations. 🤝 Contribution paths: Find out how to get involved, based on your skills and interests. And more. Built for practitioners and organizations solving sustainability challenges together. Explore it here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/deGYhAy