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Essential information about the Green Software Foundation, recent media coverage, and resources for journalists.
About the Green Software Foundation
The Green Software Foundation is a non-profit with the mission to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software.
The Green Software Foundation launched on May 25, 2021 with the Linux Foundation and the Joint Development Foundation, founded by Accenture, GitHub, Microsoft, and ThoughtWorks. Today, the Foundation has grown to 75 member organizations spanning a global workforce.
The Foundation is governed by Accenture, Google, NTT DATA, Siemens, UBS.
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The Green Software Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit organization under the Linux Foundation. It aims to create a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for building green software and hardware. Members of the GSF represent a balanced mix of for-profits, nonprofits, and academia from around the globe and include several Fortune Global 500 firms. The Foundation operates by consensus.
Three Working Groups, including Software Standards, Hardware Standards, and Policy, and two Committees, Green AI and Developer Relations, currently oversee the Foundation's ongoing projects.
If you need more information on the Green Software Foundation or wish to contact a spokesperson for an interview, email us at [email protected].
Key Messages
- - Green software means reducing emissions, not offsetting them. The Foundation advocates for abatement first.
- - Trust is foundational. All GSF documentation, processes, and standards are open and transparent by default.
- - Sustainability in software is a shared responsibility — across for-profits, non-profits, government, and academia.
- - Governance is consensus-driven and equitable. Every member organization has one vote, regardless of size.
- - Sustainability should be as central to software development as performance, security, cost, and accessibility.
GSF Timeline
December 2025
Ratification of the SCI for AI Specification November 2025
Ratification of the SOFT Framework September 2025
GSF & W3C collaborate on web sustainability measurement May 2025
Ratification of the Policy Radar March 2025
GSF Meetup Network reaches 10,000 members January 2025
Gadhu Sundaram elected as Chairperson January 2025
Graduation of the Impact Framework December 2024
SSIA merged into the GSF August 2024
Launched CXO Bytes podcast April 2024
SCI became an ISO Standard (ISO 21031:2024) April 2024
Graduation of the Carbon Aware SDK January 2024
Launch of Impact Framework November 2023
Launched GSF Champions May 2023
Published State of Green Software November 2022
Launched Patterns Catalog September 2022
Launched Carbon Hack April 2022
Launched Environment Variables podcast January 2022
Launch of GSF Newsletter October 2021
Launch of Awesome Green Software Media Coverage
The Green Software Foundation in the news.
Computer Weekly Oct 2026
Efficient chips cannot save inefficient software
www.computerweekly.com
Computer Weekly Oct 2026
Green IT: Taking responsibility for software's physical footprint
www.computerweekly.com
Trellis Oct 2026
Sustainable AI tools, frameworks and best practices
trellis.net
InfoQ Jul 2026
GitLab Brings Carbon Awareness to CI/CD to Measure the Environmental Cost of Software Delivery
www.infoq.com
Raconteur Sept 2025
Six Green Projects to Make Frontier AI More Sustainable
www.raconteur.net
ITPro. May 2025
How businesses can make their IT operations more sustainable in 2025
www.itpro.com
Information Week Jan 2025
Cracking the Code on Sustainable Software
www.informationweek.com
ComputerWeekly Jan 2025
Will Europe be the first region to enact regulation for green software?
www.computerweekly.com
BBC Oct 2024
The green software that could make big carbon savings
www.bbc.com
Raconteur Sept 2024
How a new open standard could help green your tech stack
www.raconteur.net
Computerweekly Sept 2024
What to expect from the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit Europe 2024
www.computerweekly.com
The New Stack Aug 2024
Want To Create Software Sustainably? Anne Currie’s Got Ideas
thenewstack.io
CIO.com Jul 2024
Green Software Foundation: On a mission to decarbonize software
www.cio.com
InfoQ Apr 2024
How to Do Sustainable Software Development
www.infoq.com
IEEE Spectrum Apr 2024
Software Sucks, but It Doesn’t Have To
spectrum.ieee.org
IEEE Spectrum Mar 2024
We Need to Decarbonize Software
spectrum.ieee.org
Yahoo! News Jan 2024
Wind turbines could power the data centers of the future — the ingenious company making it happen calls it a ‘no-brainer’
www.yahoo.com
Maddyness - [UK] Dec 2023
Why 2024 will be the year of Green IT
www.maddyness.com
MIT Technology Review Dec 2023
Developing climate solutions with green software
www.technologyreview.com
InfoQ Dec 2023
Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them
www.infoq.com
SiliconANGLE Dec 2023
Former Amazon executive pursues cloud initiatives in renewable energy and net-zero emissions
siliconangle.com
Sustainability Magazine Oct 2023
Siemens steers sustainability as a GSF committee member
sustainabilitymag.com
MIT Technology Review Oct 2023
The power of green computing
www.technologyreview.com
Tech Wire Asia Oct 2023
Tech Week Singapore 2023: AI dominated tech discussions
techwireasia.com
The Business Times Oct 2023
Microsoft, IMDA unveil digital sustainability guidelines to spur green software development
www.businesstimes.com.sg
IEEE Spectrum Sept 2023
Arun Gupta, Intel's general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives, on making software greener and safer
spectrum.ieee.org
TechTarget Sept 2023
Designing systems that reduce the environmental impact of AI
www.techtarget.com
TechTarget Sept 2023
The role of tech in climate change and climate justice
www.techtarget.com
Forbes Sept 2023
Council Post: Coding For A Greener Planet: How Carbon-Neutral Software Is Changing The World
www.forbes.com
Open Gov Asia Sept 2023
Singapore Partnering for Sustainable Digital Infrastructure
www.opengovasia.com
InfoQ Sept 2023
Managing the Carbon Emissions Associated with Generative AI
www.infoq.com
The Economic Times Aug 2023
IMDA, Dell, and Equinix to spearhead Singapore's green digital infrastructure deployment
ciosea.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Nature Aug 2023
The carbon footprint of computational research
www.nature.com
DatacenterDynamics Aug 2023
What is green software?
www.datacenterdynamics.com
TechTarget Aug 2023
5 ways tech leaders can power environmental sustainability
www.techtarget.com
DatacenterDynamics Jul 2023
Episode 37 - Actions speak louder than code with Anne Currie, Green Software Foundation
www.datacenterdynamics.com
Forbes Jul 2023
Council Post: 4 Ways Coders Can Fight The Climate Crisis
www.forbes.com
FinTech Futures Jul 2023
Go green software – your bonus may depend on it!
www.fintechfutures.com
Economic Times CIO Jul 2023
Green IoT: The shift to practical sustainability
cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com
Nature Jun 2023
GREENER principles for environmentally sustainable computational science
www.nature.com
InformationWeek Jun 2023
Technologists Want to Develop Software Sustainably
www.informationweek.com
Sustainable Tech Partner Jun 2023
What Is Green Software Development and Maintenance? 10 Things to Know
sustainabletechpartner.com
SDxCentral Jun 2023
Here’s how AI could destroy the planet — and how responsible AI can help
www.sdxcentral.com
GreenBiz Jun 2023
How coders can help save the planet
www.greenbiz.com
DatacenterDynamics Jun 2023
It is time software got green
www.datacenterdynamics.com
Techhq.com Jun 2023
Green software report sheds light on carbon-aware operations
techhq.com
The Telegraph May 2023
The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines
www.telegraph.co.uk
UK Yahoo! Finance May 2023
The industry more damaging to the environment than airlines
uk.finance.yahoo.com
InfoQ May 2023
She further points as a proper place to start the green software foundation’s principles that build on three pillars: carbon ...
www.infoq.com
DatacenterDynamics May 2023
Episode 16 - Green software with David Mytton, CEO and co-founder of Console
www.datacenterdynamics.com
CIO Dive May 2023
Salesforce thinks software developers can help sustainability, too
www.ciodive.com
TechUK Apr 2023
Kainos: Digital needs to be greener #techUKDigitalPS
www.techuk.org
SDxCentral Apr 2023
Microsoft scales cloud-native workloads with carbon awareness
www.sdxcentral.com
InfoQ Apr 2023
Software Architecture and Design InfoQ Trends Report - April 2023
www.infoq.com
InfoQ Mar 2023
Technology's Carbon Impact and What You Can Do about It
www.infoq.com
Forbes Feb 2023
Green IT Is No Longer An Option For The Tech Sector
www.forbes.com
American Press Feb 2023
Counting the Cost of Carbon: Why IT Efficiency Matters
smb.americanpress.com
TechTarget Jan 2023
Microsoft offers developer guidance on green software tools
www.techtarget.com
Engadget May 2021
Microsoft, the Linux Foundation, and others team up to make software sustainable
www.engadget.com
VentureBeat May 2021
Microsoft announces the Green Software Foundation to promote sustainable app development
venturebeat.com
Bloomberg May 2021
Microsoft Teams Up With Accenture, Goldman on Greener Software
www.bloomberg.com
Axios May 2021
Microsoft sets up nonprofit to cut software-related carbon emissions
www.axios.com
Trellis
The future is climate-friendly software
trellis.net
Media Contact
For press enquiries, interviews, and media requests:
[email protected]The primary GSF spokespersons are the current GSF Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, and Executive Director. All communication releases are ratified by the Steering Committee.