Best practice guidelines
Web eco-design5.0.0

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Our digital uses already represent 40% of our annual sustainable budget, both in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and the depletion of the last reserves of non-renewable resources (abiotic resources). That's 10 times too much!

Eco-designing digital services allows us to better control and limit their environmental and health impacts. Under the leadership of Frédéric Bordage, within the Green IT Collective, we have compiled a set of best practices for the eco-design of connected digital services (websites, APIs, SaaS business software packages, etc.) from functional design to hosting, in a framework of over 115 best practices.

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We have designed these best practices to be directly applicable when creating your digital services, enabling you to control the environmental impacts of your productions. This framework allows you to understand, prioritize, and validate the proper application of these best practices, and thus assess the eco-design maturity of your services.

Content

The 115 best practices in the guide are organized according to two standard life cycle taxonomies (ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 24748-1:2018):

  • 1. Specifications
  • 2. Design
  • 3. Implementation (build)
  • 4. Production (run)
  • 5. Use
  • 6. Support/maintenance
  • 7. End of life

To facilitate reading and understanding, each best practice describes the topic, provides recommendations with examples and a validation principle (implementation verification methods), as well as sources where applicable.

The guide also offers the following indicators:

  • Environmental Impact (the best practice's ability to reduce environmental impacts to a greater or lesser extent);
  • Implementation (ease or difficulty of implementation);
  • Priority Level (rated from 1 to 5 based on the two previous indicators)
  • as well as the "third party" impacted and the primary profile in charge of the issue.

The team behind this 5th edition

  • Alexandre Theve, Davidson Consulting
  • Althéa Chevalier, OVHcloud
  • Anouk Gochard Lezebot, Harington
  • Arnaud Lemercier, Wixiweb
  • Benjamin Morali, Freelance & beta.gouv
  • David Groult, Émeraude Créative
  • Dominique Nicolle, Pix-e Développement
  • France Titin-Snaider, Harington
  • Frédéric Bordage, GreenIT.fr
  • Frédéric Pineau, Artwai
  • Jean-Marie Tinghir, Clever Age
  • Jean-Rémy Praud, Toovalu
  • Jérémy Pastouret, Les e-novateurs
  • Jérôme Moly, Capybara Consulting
  • Laurent Devernay, Greenspector
  • Laurent Friscour, Interstellar
  • Nicolas Bordier, Consultis Environnement
  • Raphaël Lemaire, Zenika
  • Renaud Héluin, NovaGaïa
  • Sylvain Gougouzian, Zenika
  • Thomas Lemaire, IT’s on us
  • Vincent Bouyssou, TroisPointZéro
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Tools

Within the Green IT association (of which the CNUMR is a member), we have developed tools to help you in your digital service eco-design process.

Best practices repositories

In addition to this web ecodesign framework (RWEB), also available as a book, we offer the following frameworks:

Online assessment

Measurement tools