Ensuring your digital activity is environmentally sustainable

Achieving environmental sustainability can seem like a huge challenge for your heritage organisation. In this Reflect, Share, Inspire online session, James Coleman from Supercool explores how small changes to the way you undertake your digital activities can make a big difference to the environment. This session will help you identify how your digital activity can impact your organisation’s carbon footprint and suggest ways of mitigating that.

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Black drawing of a lightbulb with plant inside on a bright green background

Ensuring your digital activity is environmentally sustainable

Contents

  1. Digital impact on environment (8:40)
  2. Digital strategy and carbon impact (15:27)
  3. Website optimization for sustainability (20:16)
  4. Reducing carbon footprint in digital projects (28:05)
  5. Digital marketing strategies (32:46)
  6. Sustainability and accessibility in web design (39:51)

This recording has closed captions in English, simply click on the closed captions symbol CC on the video below. This recording is 50 minutes in length. Download session presentation: Ensuring your digital activity is environmentally sustainable(PDF 1 MB). More resources relating to this topic can be found in the Digital Heritage Hub session resource pack. Download transcript of this session (Word 54KB).



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Published: 2023
Resource type: Webinars and films


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Digital Heritage Hub is managed by Arts Marketing Association (AMA) in partnership with The Heritage Digital Consortium and The University of Leeds. It has received Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) and National Lottery funding, distributed by The Heritage Fund as part of their Digital Skills for Heritage initiative. Digital Heritage Hub is free and answers small to medium sized heritage organisations most pressing and frequently asked digital questions.

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