The podcast series explores digital sustainability and how it applies to WordPress. It covers the pillars of sustainability, the impact of hardware creation, and ways to make WordPress more sustainable. The hosts discuss technical suggestions for improving efficiency, the benefits of online events, and the need for diversity in the community. They also explore ideas for enhancing the social and economic sustainability of the open source project and express gratitude towards the guests. They encourage listener engagement and share information on finding resources on the website.

Discussion on the creation of the WordPress Sustainability Team, including highlights such as the Slack channel creation and the team's first post on Make WordPress. Overview of the team's initiatives, including weekly Slack meetings, guidelines for sustainable WP events, and a plugin for displaying environmental data. Overview of the team's current activities, including setting workflows in place. Discussion on future plans, such as deciding on projects from the roadmap and consolidating guidelines.

Explore what we can do to make WordPress events more sustainable with 5 amazing guests. Conversation highlights include promoting travel by train, prioritizing local companies, reducing waste, and creating a document with ideas for sustainability. The chapter also discusses the environmental impact of swag items and air travel, making in-person events more sustainable, and attracting new generations to WordPress.

In this episode, the host discusses how to make WordPress more sustainable with 8 guests. They explore topics like improving environmental sustainability, guidelines for designers and developers, CMS performance, caching and lazy loading, block themes, creating a sustainability guide or plugin, alternative funding models, and the 'Five for the Future' initiative in WordPress.

In this episode of Sustain WP, the economic pillar of sustainability is explored by 6 amazing guests. Topics include fair wages, digital product sharing, bridging the digital divide, and the impact of economic decisions on sustainability. The challenges faced by freelancers and maintainers in open source projects are discussed, along with the need for financial support and lowering economic barriers. The difficulties in convincing companies to invest in open source projects are examined, with a focus on framing incentives and visibility. The economic challenges faced by small open source products and the importance of retaining knowledgeable maintainers and fostering a diverse community are also highlighted. Finally, the importance of considering both environmental and economic sustainability, supporting contributors, and company involvement in open source is discussed.

This podcast explores the social pillar of sustainability in digital products, discussing fair access, privacy, inclusion, and accessibility. Guests highlight the importance of a humane web, prioritizing human needs over conversions. They emphasize the value of listening to others and learning from successful open source projects. The chapter also discusses the benefits of being a certified B Corp and the importance of supporting maintainers and underrepresented groups in the WordPress ecosystem.

Introduction to the environmental aspect of sustainability and a discussion with Tom Ringwood on its importance. Addressing environmental issues according to audience priorities. Prioritizing sustainability for performance and conversions, proposing an official certificate for sustainability and the role of Google. Exploring the tradeoff between performance optimization and sustainability. Discussing sustainability in the WordPress community and applying environmental sustainability to other areas. Exploring digital sustainability and the use of CO2 metrics to convey the impact of WordPress and its plugins.

Welcome to Sustain WP, a limited series podcast about digital sustainability and WordPress. I'm your host Nahuai Badiola and in this episode I will explain how I got into WordPress and sustainability, and more importantly how I learned what sustainability is. For this part I'll be joined by Hannah Smith who had a key role on how I approach the topic nowadays. In the previous episode I promised you to tell you who the hell I I'm, and since you will be experiencing this journey through my lens I think it makes sense to know, at least, how I got into WordPress and sustainability. I have a degree on biology, so you could think, aha! that's where environmental care/interest come from. I'm no saying no but my PhD was on neuroscience, so the link it's not that obvious. I also did some post-docs but even if I loved doing research the scientist lifestyle was not align with how I wanted to live. So I decided to become a freelance to have more time and freedom. You can laugh, I'm aware that I'm an optimist, grounded, but an optimist nevertheless. Long story short, around 2014 I found WordPress and I fell in love with it's community. Don't get me wrong, the software was great (it's even better now) but the people involved with the project tops that. I took me some time to learn the ropes of been a freelance and become a WordPress developer, but I could say I managed to do it. I also started to get involved with the community, been a Meetup and WordCamp speaker, a volunteer or organizing a Meetup in my town. Ok that covers pretty much the WordPress part, but what about the sustainability?  The inflexion point was when I attended to a talk on WordCamp Pontevedra 2019 by Roberto Vazquez who talked about the environmental impact of websites. The rationale behind it's quite simple and obvious, the websites are hosted in servers that need energy and most of it comes from fossil fuels, but I never thought about it before. So in that moment I decided to investigate more about it. During the last years I've been sharing my learnings through my blog, newsletter and podcast. I also gave some talks on Meetups and WordCamps about the topic. The second tipping point During this learning I participated in two workshops that impacted me and made me change the perspective on digital sustainability. One of them was the Digital Collage, I did the online version before conducted by Gäel Duez, it was great and then the in person one conducted by Margaux Maugeais on Barcelona. I highly recommend attending to it in the format that is easier for you. And the other workshop was  Doing the Doughnut Tech created by Hannah Smith and facilitated by her and Alistair Alexander. This was created on the frame of the Green Web Foundation fellowship. But I think it's best if Hannah explains her experience creating and conducting it. You can find the audio transcript of the talk with Hannah Smith below. Resources Our Sustainable WP Doing the doughnut website Doughnut Economics website Now we have a sustainability channel in Making WordPress Slack, what should we do? Digital Collage https://wordpress.tv/2019/09/22/roberto-vazquez-desarrollo-sostenible/ Hannah Smith's posts on the Green Web Foundation Call for applications Green Web Fellowship 2023/24 Sustainability definition in Wikipedia Sustainability as an umbrella term post (GWF) Green IO (podcast) Environmental variables (podcast) Transcript Nahuai Badiola I'm a WordPress developer, theme and plugin creator, I also write WP code tutorials and I'm passionate about web sustainability. WordPress Twitter Mastodon Guest

Welcome to Sustain WP, a limited podcast series about digital sustainability and WordPress.  I'm your host Nahuai Badiola, a freelance WordPress Developer based in Barcelona, active WP community member, indeed I'm part of the Sustainability Team and also a Green Web Foundation fellow (more on this later).  I'll introduce myself a bit better in the next episode. In this series I'll share my journey learning about digital sustainability and WordPress. To do so, in each episode I'll be taking with members of WordPress community, with different backgrounds, to discuss sustainability in the context of the WordPress project, to better understand where we are now and what we can do to make WordPress more sustainable. The Why So why I'm I doing this? First because I care about the topic and second this limited podcast series is the project I developed under the TGWF fellowship.  When I was preparing my proposal I based it on the pain points I had identified during the last years where I was learning and talking about digital sustainability in WordPress (I'll talk more about this in the next episode). These pain points are: The lack of awareness on digital sustainability on WordPress users (and community). I know, if you are listening to this probably you are somehow aware, but there are a lot of people out there using WordPress that never heard about it. The existing awareness it's tie to a carbon tunnel vision, meaning that the general view equals sustainability to CO2 emissions, which is not the whole picture, at all. Indeed It's difficult to talk about digital sustainability and not to focus, almost exclusively, on strategies that aim to reduce carbon footprint. That's why we have to bring other areas of the sustainability to the conversation. Not everyone is on the same page when talking about sustainability. It can mean different things to different people. Indeed I wrote about "sustainability as umbrella term" on TGWF blog. I'll leave the link on the show notes together with other resources. The aim So the aim of this podcast series is: Raise awareness around sustainability on WordPress. Bring a more holistic view of sustainability. Hear from different voices. Share my learning journey in case you can extract something useful for you. Invite people to join the conversation and, why not, to join the WordPress Sustainability Team. The series structure With this in mind this is how this series is going be structure: In the next episode I'll explain how I got started on WordPress and digital sustainability and I'll have a special guest who has been key to my digital sustainability journey. With her we will introduce the 3 pillars of sustainability, which are environmental, social and economical. In the next 3 episodes I'll talk about these 3 pillars, one pilar per episode, with members of the WordPress community. The goal is to understand what they mean to different people. With this in mind, in the following 2 episodes (episodes 4 and 5) we will explore how can we improve WordPress sustainability. Next we will talk about the WordPress Sustainability Team creation, what we are doing and what we would like to do. The final episode will be a conclusion, in it I'll try to summarise everything I learned during this journey. The release schedule, this is only relevant if you are listening to it close to this episode release, but if that's the case, you will find the first episode also published. Then I'll release one episode per week. This serves a double purpose, in one hand it gives space to have a conversation around the topics treated in the episodes, I'm aware that's an optimistic view, but giving space to things to happen it's always good. And the second one is that it gives me time to finish editing the rest of the episodes. Which if you ask me it's also a good thing. Acknowledgements and disclaimer Before I go, I'd like to thank every guest for been so generous to share a bit of their time with me and also TGWF for creating the space and opportunity for this to happen. Disclaimer, this is a limited (emphasis on limited) series and as you could guess I won't be able to cover EVERYTHING regarding sustainability and WordPress, I did my best to summarize what I learned so far on this amazing and polyhedric/nuanced topic. This disclaimer may be more for me than for you but I really want to apply the saying of "the perfect is the enemy of the good". I hope you find this premise enticing enough to hit play on the next episode. Resources The Green Web Foundation Sustainability as an umbrella term post (GWF) Learning about digital sustainability interview (GWF) Call for applications Green Web Fellowship 2023/24 Nahuai Badiola I'm a WordPress developer, theme and plugin creator, I also write WP code tutorials and I'm passionate about web sustainability. WordPress Twitter Mastodon