Tag: footprint

Lower your carbon footprint by improving your website performance

Have you ever been stuck waiting for a site to load, spam-clicking at the same time and hoping it would make the site load faster? I can admit to doing that more times than I would like, but that can often be the reality of navigating the web. “Is it possible that the users on our website c...

Sustainable UX is more than reducing your website‘s footprint

You might know about the meaning of sustainability in general. In the broadest sense, sustainability refers to the ability to maintain or support something continuously and make it last. In the past months the term “sustainability” became a synonym for “ecological”. And wh...

The carbon footprint of GPT-4

Let’s first estimate GPT-4's energy consumption. According to unverified information leaks, GPT-4 was trained on about 25,000 Nvidia A100 GPUs for 90–100 days [2]. Let’s assume the GPUs were installed in Nvidia HGX servers which can host 8 GPUs each, meaning 25,000 / 8 = 3,1...

How you can calculate building footprint SQFT with satellite image recognition

In commercial real estate, accurate measurement of building size is vital, ranking as the fourth most important piece of information after the legendary “location, location, location.” However, for real estate managers overseeing numerous properties, physically measuring each one is impr...

Building Footprint Extraction for 3D City Modelling using Point Cloud and Orthophoto: Case Study of Karaman/Turkiye

As a result of urban population growth and the construction of different complex structures, 3D visualization has become indispensable for spatial planning and urban management. 3D city models, also referred to as “digital twins”, are used in areas such as disaster management, telecommun...

Why Ecological Footprint Analysis Is Flawed

It’s common knowledge that we would currently need 1.7 Earths to sustain ourselves. It’s clear to understand why: we are using far more resources and releasing immeasurably more pollution than what could be regenerated or absorbed by Nature. We are by definition in ecological overshoot t...