Green Software

Definitions

1. Software designed and operated with attention to environmental impact, such as energy use, efficiency, hardware load, and carbon intensity. In engineering culture green software extends sustainability thinking into code and system design choices.

   In plain English: Software designed with environmental efficiency in mind.

   Example: "The team treated green software as a serious design goal once they realized inefficient polling was wasting both battery on devices and compute in the backend."

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