# Talking Drupal #348 - A Website's Carbon Footprint
Today we are talking about A Website’s Carbon Footprint with Gerry McGovern.

[www.talkingDrupal.com/348](https://www.talkingDrupal.com/348)

## Topics
* Earth day
* What is a carbon footprint
* How do websites contribute
* How can you calculate your site's impact
* Cloud vs dedicated hosting
* How do you determine a vendor's impact
* Small sites VS FAANG
* How to improve your site

## Resources
* World Wide Waste podcast
* Chats with Gerry McGovern and guests about digital sustainability and Earth Experience Design
* Book
* [How is your website impacting the planet?](https://www.websitecarbon.com/)
* [How green is your site?](https://ecograder.com/)
* [Sustainable Design](https://sustainablewebdesign.org/)
* Tom Greenwood: Sustainable Web Design
* Make greener design choices for better experiences and a healthier planet.
* https://abookapart.com/products/sustainable-web-design
* [Macarthur foundation](https://ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circular-economy-introduction/overview)
* Circular Economy

## Guests
Gerry McGovern - [gerrymcgovern.com](https://gerrymcgovern.com) [@gerrymcgovern](https://twitter.com/gerrymcgovern)

## Hosts
Nic Laflin - [www.nLighteneddevelopment.com](https://www.nLighteneddevelopment.com) [@nicxvan](https://twitter.com/nicxvan)
John Picozzi - [www.epam.com](https://www.epam.com) [@johnpicozzi](https://twitter.com/johnpicozzi)
Mike Herchel - [herchel.com](https://herchel.com/) - [@mikeherchel](https://twitter.com/mikeherchel)

## MOTW
[Config Pages](https://www.drupal.org/project/config_pages)
At some point I was tired of creating custom pages using menu and form API, writing tons of code just to have a page with an ugly form where a client can enter some settings, and as soon as a client wants to add some interactions to the page (drag&drop, ajax etc) things starts to get hairy. The same story was with the creation of dedicated CT just to theme a single page (like homepage) and explaining why you can only have 1 node of this type, or force it programmatically.