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This program includes
Focus on practice
Expert perspectives
Real-world case studies- Follow-up support
Certificate & badge
9-week online course
Digital sustainability: Software, hardware, and design
Ready to make your digital products more sustainable? This course gives you a practical, step-by-step framework to reduce the environmental impact of your digital infrastructure, tackle social and governance challenges, and create a comprehensive sustainability plan.
Walk away with...
Custom tools & resources to support your process
Certificate, badge & Linkedin accreditation
A catalogue of actionable next steps
A strong network of sustainability practitioners working on similar challenges in your field
A tailor-made strategy for your digital product or service
Course Overview
Learn to build truly sustainable digital products
Unlock the secrets to aligning teams, engaging key players, and driving sustainable change with actionable strategies and hands-on exercises.
A material issue
Understand your digital value chain
Together we’ll map your digital value chain and run a simplified materiality assessment to uncover hotspots and opportunities for change.
Who can benefit
This program is for you if you are like...
Sara, Head of Sustainability
Your team oversees sustainability initiatives. You've spotted that a significant portion of your company's indirect emissions (Scope 3) originates from things such as cloud computing and websites. You want to find simple and effective ways to reduce these.
Hassan, Product Owner
You're eager to find ways for product teams to measure and slash emissions from digital products. Also, you're interested in exploring how regenerative design and diversity, equity, and inclusion principles can open up new opportunities for your product or business.
Lea, Developer
You’re passionate about building efficient, scalable software that makes an impact. You’re always looking for ways to optimize your code, reduce energy consumption, and explore how sustainable coding practices can align with your company’s goals. You’re also curious about leveraging automation and AI to drive greener, more efficient operations.
What we’ll teach
Get straight to the point with our laser-focused sessions
Part 1
Introduction
Part 2
Identify hotspots
Part 3
Wrap it up
Part 4
Other
Module 1
March 5, 2025
Myths, Realities, and Opportunities
with Timo Müller, Arne Tarara
This module introduces digital sustainability by debunking myths about the digital sector being “green” and highlighting the physical infrastructure behind it. It covers the environmental impact of data centers, devices, and AI, while emphasizing a holistic approach that includes social and governance factors. You’ll explore both the benefits and challenges of digital innovation, with real-world examples like the social implications of platforms such as Facebook and Airbnb.
Module 2
March 12, 2025
Setting a Baseline – Digital Emissions and Value Chain Mapping
with Timo Müller, Arne Tarara
Participants will learn to assess the environmental impact of their digital products by mapping the entire digital value chain, from cloud services to end-user devices. The focus will be on conducting a materiality assessment to identify significant emissions sources. By the end of this module, you’ll have a clear understanding of your digital infrastructure’s environmental footprint and practical methods for tracking emissions data.
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Who will teach
Meet your instructors
We'll be sharing news about more instructors soon, so stay tuned.
Arne Tarara
Founder & CEO at Green Coding Berlin
Arne is the CEO for the the Berlin based Green Software company Green Coding Berlin GmbH. Being a professional software engineer for 16 years with roles in CTO and CEO positions he is now a regular speaker at events for Green Software in Germany as well as the lead engineer for one of the leading software energy measurements tools, the Green Metrics Tool with regular releases of open source tools and articles about research in the domain of sustainable software engineering.
Timo Müller
co-Founder and Product lfca.earth
With more than a decade of experience in building digital products and startups, Timo is the driving force behind lfca's product strategy. Chances are high that the website or app you are reading this text on is programmed and designed by him 🤓
Testimonials
What our participants are saying
Read what participants from previous cohorts had to say about our online courses
Incredible work from everyone who came together to pull this off - a huge thank you! ...for what it's worth, this was way better than any course I've ever taken at university ;)
The course took away my ominous feeling about CSRD being this big insurmountable task - it feels manageable now.
A wide array of content packed into a 9-week course, a must-have for CSRD practitioners! The course allowed me to dive deeper into the mystical world of the new directive and what it actually means, now it feels way easier to approach - thanks to LFCA!
I have learnt a huge amount and really value each speaker highly. Great content and discussions throughout the course.
I've found it incredibly insightful and felt like I've learned so much. The speakers have been really engaging… each lesson was packed with valuable information, designed to set us up for real-world success.
In-depth but comprehensible, delivered to a high standard by an impressive range of experts. I came away with a good grasp of the big picture as well as much of the detail… Warmly recommended!
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Skills
This course teaches essential skills for long term business transformation
Advancing transformations towards sustainability calls for change agents equipped with a new set of competencies. We help you get there! Learn more about how we teach
Foundational Knowledge
Understand climate science, policy, regulation & legislation, leading innovation, and the implications of these global trends for the environment, for society, for the economy and for organisations.
Effective Communication
Pitching Value
Collaborative Skills
Strategic Thinking
Futures Thinking
Project Management
Analytical Thinking