Serving Green, with Andrew Boardman
Channel: SustainableUX
Date: 20/02/2017

Live at SustainableUX 2017. 

 Last Fall, a consortium of three firms launched a new website called Serving.Green that hopes to demonstrate, in accessible and user-friendly terms, the importance of green data centers to our global and connected economies and the role that websites and applications play in warming our climate. Our goals were as follows:

    To educate the public about the need for hosting websites and applications efficiently with renewable energy
    To provide a user-friendly, memorable, and straightforward way for visitors to understand the issues around a sustainable web
    To offer a small and useful set of resources that can be easily and readily updated
    To create a beautiful and engaging web experience on a modest page size budget

This presentation will discuss the overall strategy of the website and the technical approach we used to make a lean, immersive and more sustainable website.


Bio

Andrew Boardman is the founder of Manoverboard, a purpose-driven design studio that provides digital platforms, communications strategies, and visual identities to socially responsible businesses, educational institutions, and large nonprofit organizations. Manoverboard is a Certified B Corp based in Winnipeg, Canada and is the first B Corp in the province. Clients have included Generation Investment Management, Global Alliance for Children, SJF Ventures, Renewal Funds, Acumen Fund, Encourage Capital, EQ3, Council of Canadians with Disabilities, Maestral International, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development.