Who are we ?

We are a group of freelancers desiring to contribute to a better understanding and evaluation of ICT impacts on the environment. We have the objective of enabling as many organizations as possible (especially ICT companies) to reduce their impacts on the environment. To reach this objective efficiently, a decent evaluation of those impacts is a prerequisite. We think, that handy and open-source tooling and an effective automation of the evaluation process would help more organizations to take action, having a better understanding of their ICT services or products impacts.

Our methods and engagements

We believe in transparency and standardization of the methodologies. Our north star shall be the Life Cycle Assessment methodology, applied to ICT. It sure has to evolve to be properly applicable for ICT services, but this is already a standard in environmental impacts assessments in the other industries.

We also believe that a large collaboration between actors from both private and public sectors is key to open and improve the tools, methodologies and data, then end up with standards that get a consensus. This way, we actively contribute to Boavizta, a non-profit that embodies this approach, and in the open-source projects Boavizta provides.

To get a glimpse of our open-source work, you could have a look at the following projects :

• Scaphandre : measure the energy consumption of ICT servers/computers and of the processes and services they run. 🤿 ⚡

• 🚧 Cabestan : collect and normalize inventory data to make automated carbon and environmental footprint assessments possible, quickly. 🚧

• windows-rapl-driver : get RAPL metrics in userland softwares, on Windows ⚙️

You could also have a look to projects from Boavizta we actively contribute to :

• BoaviztAPI : an API to evaluate the multi-criteria, multi-step environmental impacts of a given set of IT servers or cloud workloads

• Boagent : collects local machine's hardware specifications, retrieves it's impacts based on BoaviztAPI and a power measurements tool such as Scaphandre

Our business model

🤝 We live thanks to the impacts evaluation expertise and automation we provide to our clients.
💰 When applicable, we finance part of our open-source developments thanks to those missions.

However, this doesn't allow us to work on open-source tooling enhancements (and address new features that would make better evaluations more accessible and automated) as much as we would like.

You could help us invest more time and development efforts in better open-source impacts evaluation tooling by sponsoring our work. If you consider it, thanks a lot, already. ❤️

See our WIP sponsored/contracted developments