Organizations & Communities in the field of sustainable IT

Communities, Foundations & Initiatives

Good overview: The Sustainable Computing Ecosystem by Scott Logic

Name Type Website
Agile Sustainability Initiative #brand/initiative https://www.agilealliance.org/resources/initiatives/agile-sustainability-initiative/
Bits & Bäume #organization/community https://bits-und-baeume.org/
BMUV Community Nachhaltige Digitalisierung #organization/community https://www.bmuv.de/themen/digitalisierung/community-nachhaltige-digitalisierung
Boavizta #organization/association https://boavizta.org/en
CCC Sustainability Operation Center #organization/ngo https://hacc.uber.space/c3sus
clean-IT-Initiative #brand/initiative https://hpi.de/open-campus/hpi-initiativen/clean-it-initiative.html
Climate Change AI #organization/association https://www.climatechange.ai/
ClimateAction.tech #organization/community https://climateaction.tech/
CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability #organization/working-group https://tag-env-sustainability.cncf.io
DLR Software Engineering Initiative #brand/initiative https://rse.dlr.de/
Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung #organization/community https://www.fiff.de/
GI - Arbeitskreis Nachhaltigkeit #organization/working-group https://ak-nachhaltigkeit.gi.de/
Green Software Design Community #organization/community https://www.greensoftwaredesign.com/en/gsd-our-members/
Green Software Development Karlsruhe #organization/community https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/green-software-development-karlsruhe/
Green Software Development Stuttgart #organization/community https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/green-software-development-stuttgart/
Green Software Foundation #organization/foundation https://greensoftware.foundation/
Green Tech South West #organization/community https://greentechsouthwest.org/
Green Web Foundation #organization/foundation https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/
KDE Eco #brand/initiative https://eco.kde.org
Labdoo #organization/community https://www.labdoo.org/deu/de/
PowerShift #organization/ngo https://power-shift.de/
Resilio #organization/ https://resilio-solutions.com/en/
Right to Repair #organization/ngo https://repair.eu/
Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance #organization/community https://sdialliance.org/
SustainableWWW #organization/community https://sustainablewww.org
The Restart Project #organization/ngo https://therestartproject.org/
W3C Community Group - Sustainable Web Design #organization/community https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/

Research departments

see Scientific Research about Green Software#Specialized research departments & researchers

Companies

Name Location Website
adesso SE Stuttgart, … (60 in Europa) https://www.adesso.de
bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG Karlsruhe https://www.bluehands.de/
doubleSlash Net-Business GmbH Friedrichshafen, München, Stuttgart https://www.doubleslash.de/
Ecosia Berlin https://www.ecosia.org/
Electricity Maps Copenhagen https://www.electricitymaps.com
envite consulting GmbH Stuttgart https://envite.de/
Green Coding Solutions Berlin https://www.green-coding.io/
MaibornWolff GmbH Berlin, München, Frankfurt, Hamburg, ... https://www.maibornwolff.de/
Mightybytes Chicago https://www.mightybytes.com/
re:cinq - https://re-cinq.com/
Sandstorm Dresden https://sandstorm.de
Scott Logic UK https://www.scottlogic.com/
SHIFT GmbH Falkenberg https://www.shiftphones.com/
Syngenio AG Stuttgart, … https://syngenio.com
WattTime San Francisco https://www.watttime.org/
WEtell Freiburg https://www.wetell.de
Wholegrain Digital London https://www.wholegraindigital.com/

German IT companies with sustainability focus:
IT-Unternehmen mit Nachhaltigkeitsprofil in DE