How to use the Impact Framework to calculate your website's carbon emissions
Channel: Practical AI through Prototypes
Date: 2024-04-07

This tutorial walks through using the Webpage Measurement Plugins and related manifest file from Alex Zurbonsen, contributed as part of the Green Software Foundation's Carbon Hack 24, to calculate any web page's operational carbon, green hosting, and lighthouse scores by looking at the overall data transferred through website usage, and passing that data through the CO2.js plugin to turn that data into carbon equivalency.

Links:
* Webpage Measurement Plugin: https://github.com/wr24-greenit/if-webpage-plugins
* Impact Framework from the Green Software Foundation: https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if
* CO2.js from the Green Web Foundation: https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/co2-js/

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Building the plugin locally and linking it to the Impact Framework
1:10 - Implementing the plugin in your pipeline
2:26 - Running the manifest file
2:54 - Examining the plugin output
4:24 - Conclusion