Real-world examples of green coding achievements

Reduction of 59 t CO2 per month by removing a 20 kB JavaScript dependency

In January 2020 Danny van Kooten removed a 20 kB JavaScript dependency in Mailchimp for WordPress. He estimated that this removal saves an estimated 59.000 kg CO2 per month.

https://www.dannyvankooten.com/blog/2020/website-carbon-emissions/

Sunsetting PHP library Faker

François Zaninotto (marmelab) was sunsetting the PHP library fzaninotto/Faker in October 2020. One reason was, that he released Faker has probably emitted more than 11 Metric tons of CO2 over the years.

https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/10/21/sunsetting-faker.html

Image from Wikipedia was downloaded 78 Mio times per day by accident

The mysterious photo of a purple flower that receives 78 million hits each day - Rest of World