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.
Duration
TBA
Start
March 2026
Format
Online
This program includes
Focus on practice
Expert perspectives
Real-world case studies
Follow-up support
Certificate & badge
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.
Analyze
Set a baseline: Measure your digital emissions
We’ll dive deeper into measuring your digital carbon emissions. Learn the theory and apply it straight away by analyzing your company’s digital footprint!
Sustainable AI?
Uncover the ecological and ethical implications of AI
AI is a game changer - but for the better? Together we take a critical look at the risks and opportunities of AI for sustainability.
Web design
Time to build a better (more sustainable) web
Bring your web designers and developers to this session to make them understand how to build digital products in the web that have a minimal carbon footprint.
Culture
How to build a product culture around sustainability
If you want to truly change for the better, you need to take a critical look at the way and underlying assumptions of how we build products.
Get buy-in
Craft and pitch your sustainable product strategy
Let’s bring it all together - learn how to wrap the learnings of this course up and convince stakeholders like your leadership team of taking a different path towards building your digital products and services!
What we’ll teach
Everything you need to know about this course at a glance
9 sessions | starting March 5, 2026
Price per seat 1999€, or as part of our membership plan (starting at 1000€). Can't afford it? Let's talk!
Introduction
Identify hotspots
Wrap it up
Module 1
March 5, 2026
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, 2026
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.
Your instructors
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 🤓
Credentials for your resume
Upon successfully completing this course, you’ll receive a professional certificate to showcase your newly learned expertise. Easily add it to your LinkedIn profile to highlight your commitment to driving meaningful change and advancing your career.
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The social business model of our non-profit is membership-based and designed to help you navigate your entire sustainability journey—from reporting to leadership buy-in and beyond. Check out our membership fees here. Just want to take this course? It’s €1,999 if your company is covering it. Paying out of your own pocket? Reach out, and let’s chat!
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 ;)
Isabel Nacke
Senior Corporate PR Manager, Home to go
The course took away my ominous feeling about CSRD being this big insurmountable task - it feels manageable now.
Diana Pauly
Head of Sustainability, idealo
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!
Minni Tynkkynen
Morrow X
I have learnt a huge amount and really value each speaker highly. Great content and discussions throughout the course.
Leena Ceccolini
Founder, Socially Circular
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.
Jenna Jones
Sustainability Coordinator, Ableton
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!
Focus on practice
Expert perspectives
Real-world case studies
Certificate & badge
