Filecoin Green’s Drive for Decarbonized Storage Solutions At this point, it feels a bit trite to say that climate change is knocking at our door — it’s more like it’s broken down the door and is now sitting in our living room, demanding attention. The threat level has been cranked…

The dire consequences of climate change require innovative solutions now more urgently than ever before. In our previous blog posts, we’ve highlighted a lot of our work over the past year, including our efforts with the Sustainable Blockchain Summit (SBS). This year, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of SBS by…

It’s been one year since our team launched the Sustainable Blockchain Summit and made our official introduction to the world! Check out some of our major accomplishments over the past year! — In March of 2022, Filecoin Green hosted the very first Sustainable Blockchain Summit at SXSW in Austin where we grew from a small project within the Filecoin ecosystem to a larger initiative focused on promoting sustainable practices and innovation within the blockchain industry generally. …

Learn more about how we’re working with Storage Providers to verifiably decarbonize their operations in the Filecoin network. — What does it take to be a “Green” data center? As data storage needs continue to grow and our world inches closer to climate change tipping points, efforts toward data center sustainability will become increasingly important. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network that enables individual data centers to commit storage…

In a small unincorporated community three hours north of San Francisco,​​ a group of 450 multinational experts gathered for DWeb Camp 2022. …

Two Types of Transparency We are missing a key building block in voluntary carbon markets. The way forward for these markets — everyone agrees — is more transparency. But there are at least two types of transparency we need more of. The first is transparency about what an offset represents: how exactly did it…

There is a growing movement in the world of sustainability and ReFi to manage data differently. With opportunities like the Gitcoin Climate Round and Filecoin Green’s Grants initiative, there are hundreds of groups working to create networks of vertical farms, make it easier to veganize our cities, or that are…

Sign up for the Filecoin Green email list to receive updates and meetup notifications, or join the #fil-green channel on Filecoin Slack. Filecoin Green exists to do for sustainability what blockchains do for payments. Today, when a company claims to be ‘Green’ those claims generally require a lot of…

We are increasing the transparency of Filecoin electricity use by allowing anyone to estimate the electricity consumption of any Filecoin storage provider at https://filecoin.energy Public verifiability is core to Web3, and is the bedrock that IPFS and Filecoin are based on. Content addressing allows users to verify that the data they requested is the data they received, proof of spacetime provides certainty that resources are continuously stored, and blockchains themselves enable network-wide agreement on…