our sustainability commitment

our work began with a steadfast commitment to crafting practical solutions to tackle the climate crisis. this commitment entails personal responsibility and accountability for the very problems we aim to resolve. while we acknowledge our imperfections, this doesn’t diminish the importance of holding ourselves accountable to the same standards we advocate for.

therefore, i’ve always believed the creation of a sustainability pledge was essential, but I wanted it to be a practical and accessible document, not a cumbersome legalese pdf. so, i’ve been waiting for the right moment and idea to develop such a pledge.

one of the challenges we faced was that many existing standards didn’t provide the necessary guidance to establish truly sustainable standards. consequently, we spent considerable time developing our keywords.

now that we have our keywords in place, and after coming across bibi van der velden’s sustainability manifesto, i found the inspiration and framework i believe makes for a practical and realistic pledge that we can communicate internally as a team and to the general public. so, with this in mind, here is our sustainability pledge, and we will continue to update our commitment as our operations evolve.

our sustainability commitment:

our keywords:

we firmly believe that effective communication is crucial in addressing the climate crisis. to guide our research, development, and implementation of practical solutions, we’ve developed a set of keywords. these keywords serve as our guiding principles, helping us enhance clarity in our communication and execution. here’s a list of our keywords and their specific meanings.

our compute:

while it would undoubtedly be a significant convenience and advantage to develop our own private computing systems and platform at this time, we reserve the right to restrict any further development of computing capabilities that would be redundant in the market.

this decision is crucial for several reasons, particularly because our current computing infrastructure and models are resource-intensive, requiring substantial amounts of land, energy, and other natural resources like water.

consequently, we currently limit our computing capabilities to our personal computing devices and the shared connected infrastructure that supports its function. we acknowledge that this limitation does not entirely eliminate the use of resources that may still contribute to our declining climate. however, we recognize that this restriction significantly reduces our technological environmental impact as we actively work towards solutions that will help mitigate our collective computing environmental footprint.