Sustainable Software
#VisualGreenTech Challenge: Week 3
April 26, 2021
This week was very special as last Thursday was Earth Day! I continued sketching for the #VisualGreenTech challenge by Microsoft's Developer Advocacy Team. This challenge is about spreading awareness and taking action this Earth Day. For my blog post, I wanted to compile all of the sketchnotes I have published on Twitter this week.
April 19
Prompt: Network efficiency is a measure of power consumed by data transmission on the network. Visualize an action to reduce data size or travel distance!
April 20
Prompt: Demand shaping is a strategy to adapt compute demand to the existing energy supply. Visualize an action that adapts tasks to fit existing resources!
April 21
Prompt: Optimization is about choosing criteria to provide clearest impact signals. Visualize a metric or action that illustrates this concept!
April 22
Prompt: Minecraft: Lumen Power explores energy generation and usage in our own environments. Visualize different sources of electricity in use today!
April 23
Prompt: Minecraft: Lumen City explores renewable energy sources and sustainable usage in cities. Visualize a renewable energy change that your city can make!
April 24
Prompt: Minecraft: Sustainability city explores sustainable city life with food, waste, home lenses. Visualize an action for sustainable food production!
April 25
Prompt: Eco-challenge.org lists actions you can take to build sustainability habits. Visualize one action that can impact your community!
Earth Day - Hello World!
In addition to my daily sketchnotes, I had the amazing opportunity to be a guest on Hello World! Thank you so much to Nitya Narasimhan and the entire team at Microsoft for making this happen!
You can find a link to the recording in the next section!
Learn more!
- Check out the Principles of Sustainable Software Engineering Microsoft Learn Module!
- Participate in the #VisualGreenTech Challenge!
- Check out Hello World's Earth Day Special!
- Learn more about Minecraft's sustainability initiatives for education.