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#177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

#177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

Update: 2025-07-16

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In this episode, Nathan Wrigley talks with Charlotte Bax at WordCamp Europe about making websites more environmentally sustainable. Charlotte shares her journey into sustainable web design, offers practical advice on reducing a website’s carbon footprint, like choosing green web hosting, optimising images, improving UX, applying caching, and managing visitor traffic, and introduces advanced concepts like grid-aware websites. The conversation also touches on WordPress’s role in digital sustainability and recent efforts to revive its sustainability team. Charlotte offers resources and invites listeners to connect for further advice on building greener websites. If you’ve ever wondered how digital choices impact the planet, and what steps you can take today to help, this episode is for you.

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#177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

#177 – Charlotte Bax on Reducing Your Website’s Carbon Footprint

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