GreenBeam is an experimental browser extension built to encourage environmental sustainability. Built off Mozilla's Extension, Lightbeam, the Firefox extension monitors the websites you visit and builds a graph for you of the activity, building to push towards a greener web.
For you, the websites you visit are color-coded green (i.e., hosted on renewals), or grey (not hosted on renewables, or hosting energy source unknown). The data comes from the GreenWebFoundation's API.
By using Greenbeam you are are also sending a request to the website host for the new standard, 'carbon.txt' file, signaling that you care about websites run on renewables.
We're in the midst of a climate crisis and IT is a growing portion of the problem. By default in this industry, when we use the web we rely on infrastructure that uses huge amounts of fossil fuels. This means that every time we use the web, it causes avoidable harm.
This project comes out of the Climateaction.Tech fellowship.
Still a work in progress; not yet available in Firefox add-ons. Check out the repo!