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Discussion on: Is Brutalist design coming back as Carbon Conscious?

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Maureen T'O • Edited

I love Website Carbon! I think carbon footprint in the tech world isn’t understood well and I think we’d benefit from transitioning off heavy carbon-producing servers for hosting websites even. I was surprised after using the tester that a site I built was run off of peat-bog energy which could be cleaner if I transitioned to another hosting service😯💡

Love the art history lesson! Brutalist design has a history in Toronto on my university’s campus with the largest library - Robart’s Library - that literally looks like a concrete, straight-edged bird shape (don’t even ask about the elevator system inside 💀). It’s supposed to be a peacock but students call it the “turkey”. Supposedly the architect who built it has a dark past which funny enough coincidentally matches the brutalist architecture 🥲

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JennyJudova (they/them)

I am getting more and more interested in web's carbon footprint, and I guess even more how exactly is it calculated. Are there any other resources you use apart from Website Carbon?

Oh wow Robart Library looks awesome! Definitely see the turkey/peacock shape :D

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Maureen T'O

Website Carbon’s the only one I know and use! 😓 I’d love to know other companies that do what they do - that’s why Website Carbon’s currently my go-to 😂 HAHAH yes the many times I walked into and past Robarts and used it’s elevator system is beyond me 💀😂