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Sustainable Web Manifesto

“If the Internet was a country, it would be the 13th largest polluter”

Reimagining the Browser for a Green Web - Branch

The web must operate within planetary limits by phasing out fossil fuels, and reducing absolute emissions across supply chains.

We Need To Rewild The Internet

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

The one and future internet

The internet has become inextricably entangled into our economies, cultural and social lives. We stand on the brink of the next technological revolution, in which the internet of things transforms ...

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

The Internet Is Making You Less Free

Our current age is defined by the internet. The internet—a technology that allows the decentralized, globalized dissemination of information—has become so

Power and the Internet - Schneier on Security

All disruptive technologies upset traditional power balances, and the Internet is no exception. The standard story is that it empowers the powerless, but that’s only half the story. The Internet empowers everyone. Powerful institutions might be slow to make use of that new power, but since they are powerful, they can use it more effectively. Governments and corporations have woken up to the fact that not only can they use the Internet, they can control it for their interests. Unless we start deliberately debating the future we want to live in, and the role of information technology in enabling that world, we will end up with an Internet that benefits existing power structures and not society in general...

Funding The Web: A Wise Choice

The Web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little known system: the Search/Browser Levy. Let's fix it!

The Open Internet is Dead. What Comes Next?

Justin Hendrix spoke to Mallory Knodel and Burcu Kilic about their recent essay, titled "Big Tech Redefined the Open Internet to Serve Its Own Interests."

The Next Great (Digital) Extinction

How today's internet is rapidly and indifferently killing off many systems while allowing new types of organizations to emerge.

My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet

Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.

chaim on Twitter / X

we’ve been given the opportunity to keep building the internetit’s not so much about building a new internet it’s more that we get to keep on building the internetbecause the internet essentially stopped being builtwe arrived at a specific junction, put down our tools,…— chaim (@matthewchaim) May 7, 2024

About the Solar Powered Website

This website is solar-powered and self-hosted. It has been designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

Society Desperately Needs An Alternative Web

In a world of rampant technology, and what will be the future of our planet, it is inflicting harms in the very fabric of society who depends on it. Is it too late to steer its path towards an internet intended to free information, preserve our privacy and be accountable to the needs of humanity?