The most critical issue of our time is climate change. Yet, when you think about our carbon

impact in the software industry, what comes to mind? Business travel, commuting to the office

so you don't miss filing that TPS report? Yeah, those are bad, but data centers, servers,

and our apps consume a substantial portion of the total energy used by modern humans.

In this episode, you'll meet Chris Adams.

He's been advocating for a greener software environment and has concrete advice to make your

Python programs more climate-friendly.

The good news is, generally speaking, what we need to do to make our code easier on the planet

is the same things we do to make our code

faster.

Dive into software and climate on this episode number 248 recorded December 11th, 2019. Welcome to Talk Python to Me, a weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.

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It really helps support the show. Chris, welcome to Talk Python to me. Oh, thank you very much

for hugging me, Michael. I'm really excited to have you on the show.

This is the topic that I've not covered a ton.

We have had a previous show on studying climate science in Python,

but we haven't really dove into how that affects us individually

and how the ways that we write software or think about how we host our code or even

how fast our website responds directly can correlate to contributing to or alleviating some of the

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