<story><title>How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This may sound snarky, but...&lt;p&gt;I really wonder how helpful such projects are. Making the Internet greener is undoubtedly an important goal, but I feel this is perpetuating a myth that we&amp;#x27;re gonna fix the climate crisis with small-scale projects from below.&lt;p&gt;Practically this is doing nothing to provide any relevant fix for the problem. What we should be doing is thinking about how we can fix the problem at scale, e.g. pressuring large IT companies to get real about the green image they like to peddle. (i.e. care more about news like this &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22167858&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22167858&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevenhuang</author><text>These small-scale projects directly inspires those linked in your article to act. The more we talk about it and try to make a change--any change--the greater the impetus to make greater changes.&lt;p&gt;Large-scale projects don&amp;#x27;t magically wink into existence in a vacuum, the conversation needs to happen and the ball first needs to get rolling.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Sustainable Is a Solar Powered Website?</title><url>https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2020/01/how-sustainable-is-a-solar-powered-website.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hannob</author><text>This may sound snarky, but...&lt;p&gt;I really wonder how helpful such projects are. Making the Internet greener is undoubtedly an important goal, but I feel this is perpetuating a myth that we&amp;#x27;re gonna fix the climate crisis with small-scale projects from below.&lt;p&gt;Practically this is doing nothing to provide any relevant fix for the problem. What we should be doing is thinking about how we can fix the problem at scale, e.g. pressuring large IT companies to get real about the green image they like to peddle. (i.e. care more about news like this &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22167858&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22167858&lt;/a&gt; )</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bacon_waffle</author><text>One benefit of small projects is that they give people a sense of scale, and a better mental framework for thinking about energy use.  Electrical power is something we don&amp;#x27;t (usually) see or physically interact with, this project gives an idea of what a PV panel or battery that can run a tiny computer looks and feels like.</text></comment>