The Green Web Foundation (TGWF) is an active not-for-profit organisation striving to deliver a meaningful contribution towards creating a more sustainable, environmentally-friendly internet that runs on renewable energy.
Objective: by 2020 at least 80% of the Internet should run on renewable sources of energy.
They believe that the internet must serve as an open and public good and that the internet must be fossil-free by 2030.
For the last decade, the Green Web Foundation has built open decision-making infrastructure to track and enable the transition to a fossil-free internet, including stewarding an open dataset to check if websites run on renewable energy, accessed over 2 billion times.
In 2020, they began to reboot our organization to better meet the moment of the climate crisis. Building on our history and expertise in open data and greening the internet, we began providing more targeted support to internet practitioners who want to change destructive defaults in the technology they make and use. They collaborated with a number of projects to demonstrate what a fossil-free internet could look like using open data and open code. They launched a Green Web Fellowship program to empower internet practitioners to center on climate justice.