Our life-centred business commitments
Reducing waste
Regenerating trees
Reducing energy consumption
Fostering the pluriverse
Fostering open-source
Transparent with actions
Using our privilege and value to regenerate and heal
In order to foster the transition of modern design to be more sustainable, regenerative, and socially just…
We produce our guidebooks, courses, and other learning resources with consideration for people, animals, and ecosystems impacted by our business…
By making these commitments:
- Reducing waste—Utilising self-publishing print-on-demand service to reduce waste and Providing in-book instructions on how to keep the book maintained, repaired, and circular to reduce waste
- Regenerating resources—Making regular donations of printed books to onetreeplanted.org to give back
- Reducing energy consumption—Committing to improving the sustainability of our website to reduce energy consumption
- Fostering the pluriverse—Referencing the indigenous history of related sustainable/systems thinking to reduce marginalisation and foster the pluriverse
- Fostering open-source—Providing free information and tools and exercises with a license to remix and reshare
- Transparency of actions—And we hold ourselves accountable by publishing these commitments and updates for anyone to access
In support of the following United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:
- Quality Education
- Reduced Inequalities
- Climate Action
- Life on land
- Responsible consumption and production
Actions on commitments
Action #2—Regenerating trees
15/11/22 – Payment to onetreeplanted.org
(US$20/AUD$30)
14/09/22 – Payment to onetreeplanted.org
(US$13/AUD$20)
Action #3—Reducing energy consumption
Nov ’22 – Sustainable Digital Improvements
Using sustainable web guidelines, I made the following improvements to my home page:
- Implemented and tested an information carousel, then removed it due to lack of engagement and energy impact
- Identified and merged repetitive links/content
- Replaced images displayed by external URLs with self-hosted optimised and cached images
I also made the following improvements to my entire site:
- Switched to green hosting
- Improved caching
- Automatic file optimisation
- Lazy loading
These changes resulted in an estimated:
- A reduction of up to 2/3 less carbon generated per visit per page
- A reduction of up to 2/3 less energy used to load per page
Oct ’22 – Sustainable Web Improvements
Using sustainable web guidelines, I made the following improvements to my home page, one of the highest traffic pages:
- Converted main PNG Logo (93KB/56KB) to an SVG (26KB)
- Reduced various image sizes
- Reduced use of a custom font to only headers
- Replaced light backgrounds with darker colours
- Removed a ‘subscribe’ plugin, swapping it for a button linking to another page where the plugin already existed
These changes resulted in an estimated:
- Reduction of carbon generated per visit from 403kg/yr to 20kg/yr
- 1 second increase in page load speed
Getting there with small steps!
