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Axios — Microsoft sets up nonprofit to cut software-related carbon emissions

by Asim Hussain · 25 May 2021

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The vision statement for the foundation is to change the culture of software engineering, so sustainability becomes a core priority to software teams — because right now when you're building software, you're making 100 trade-offs in your mind.

— Asim Hussain

Axios covered the launch of the Green Software Foundation — the nonprofit I helped start, with Microsoft, Accenture, GitHub and ThoughtWorks, to set standards for cutting software’s carbon emissions. I talked about the real goal: changing the culture of software engineering, so sustainability becomes one of the trade-offs you weigh by default.

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