Open Erotemic opened 2 years ago
Thank you for your message!
I personally think this is a great next step, action after information and we don't want people being stuck and satisfied with info only.
However I'm not sure whether we should include offsetting as a part of the package, or at least not associated with any particular organisation.
We can also discuss the opportunity for even recommending offsetting. While I agree with the intention I know some people have reservations, + sobriety is probably the actual goal (re: Jevons paradox) and some infrastructures (such as cloud services) already offset emissions linked to computations.
It is not my area of expertise, so if you want to help and contribute something like a Wiki page that would be great :)
Maybe we could add it in Dashboard, with a common interface to allow other offsetting partner to add their services.
And, yes, offsetting is not sustainable. But still better than nothing ?
In addition to knowing how much carbon a computation emits, it can also be insightful and more importantly actionable to know how much it would cost to offset that emission. I have a small demo script that uses the rates reported by two services: terrapass and cotap.
I think gathering information on available carbon offsetting services and increasing awareness of them would be a great direction for this project.