
Hey, I'm Fershad
A digital sustainability consultant based in πΉπΌ Taipei, Taiwan. I work with the Green Web Foundation towards a fossil free internet by 2030.
2024
Posts
Longer content mostly about digital sustainability.
Posts
Longer content mostly about digital sustainability.
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What better way for a nerd to start the new year than with a redesign of their website.
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As part of a website redesign, I'm making some changes to the main RSS feed for this blog.
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At Green Web Foundation kicking off a cutting-edge project to explore our idea for making grid-aware websites a commonplace tool in website developer toolkits, thanks to funding fromΒ SIDN Fonds.
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This post explores one way developers can go beyond page load and start estimating web page carbon emissions that include user interactions on the page.
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This post covers the changes made in version 4 of the Sustainable Web Design Model, and how those affect the estimation results for those using this methodology.
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The Are my third parties green? project has been running for over two years now. In this post, I look back at the project, and do an analysis of the data it's captured.
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In the past month, weβve had the opportunity to speak at a couple of events in Asia for the very first time. This post shares our experience, links to our slides, and other notes from those events.
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This post briefly explores how the electricity grid manages load, and wonders aloud if it would be possible to do the same with data networks.
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In this post, I want to look at the two different carbon accounting models used for estimation, and in what scenario you might use one over the other.
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In this post, I want to continue building out an incremental model, but rather than focusing on emissions calculations I want to create a model to estimate energy use.
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In this post I will look at an possible alternative approach to calculating the emissions of the server (data center/hosting) segment for websites using the methodology outlined by Cloud Carbon Footprint.
2024
Notes
Short(ish) thoughts and reflections on a variety of topics.
Notes
Short(ish) thoughts and reflections on a variety of topics.
2024
Active projects
Projects that I've worked on at one time or another through the year.
Active projects
Projects that I've worked on at one time or another through the year.
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Grid-aware websites
Giving developers to ability to make their websites react to changes in the energy grid.
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CO2.js
A JavaScript library that allows developers to estimate digital emissions.
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Carbon-aware website
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Are my third parties green?
A tool to show if the third-party resources on a website are hosted on green infrastructure.
2024
Talks
Presentations and talks mostly on the topic of digital sustainability.
Talks
Presentations and talks mostly on the topic of digital sustainability.
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The nuance of quantifying digital carbon emissions
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Thinking differently about digital sustainability
29 Mar 2024 @ Digital Sustainability Summit, Taipei