Chris Adams
Chris Adams is the Director of Technology and Policy at the Green Web Foundation, a non profit focussed on reaching a fossil free internet by 2030, and has spent the last 15 years as an environmentally focussed tech generalist, working as a user researcher, product manager, developer, sysadmin and UX designer.
He is a contributing editor to the Ars Electronica award winning Branch Magazine, an invited expert at the W3C Sustainable Web Interest Group, the policy chair of the Green Software Foundation, an industry body comprised of non profits and some of the largest names in the tech world, including Microsoft, Thoughtworks, Google, Github and others. He is also the host of the Environment Variables podcast, where he interviews experts in the field of digital sustainability.
Talk: A fossil free internet, Kirby and carbon.txt
We love the internet, but it’s also the biggest fossil fuel powered machine in the world. Fortunately, this is a bug we can fix! In this talk, Green Web Foundation Director of Technology and Policy Chris will introduce what a fossil free internet is, why we need one, and how a project called carbon.txt helps responsible web professionals share the work they’re doing to build more sustainable digital services.