Supercool + Sustainability
Hello, we're Supercool. We craft websites, digital strategies, and brands that make life easier for some of the UK's leading arts and cultural organisations – and their audiences.
Clients include Edinburgh International Festival, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Sheffield Theatres, B:Music, Welsh National Opera, Bristol Old Vic and Unicorn Theatre.
We believe it’s our responsibility to be as environmentally responsible and sustainable as possible – in terms of both what we build for our clients, and how we run the business day-to-day. We plant trees for every website we launch, and aim to be fully Carbon Negative by the end of 2021.
Resources to help you to think about, and take practical action on, sustainability:
Related Posts
- 16 December 2021
Taking action on climate change – on stage, off stage and online
- 3 December 2021
Supercool Sessions #5: Using 'page weight' to reduce your website's carbon footprint
- 22 April 2021
Sustainable web design tips
- 22 June 2021
Sustainable coding and hosting tips
- 3 August 2021
Sustainable content creation tips
- 21 October 2021
What can we learn from the Circular Economy?
- 16 January 2020
Sixteen and green
- 17 March 2021
Becoming Carbon Negative
- 16 December 2020
Supercool’s Sustainability Pledge 2021
- 21 October 2021
How to make a Sustainability Pledge
Cribsheet for writing your own Sustainability Pledge:
📥 Sustainability Pledge Template [PDF 41KB]
Handy links:
Unicorn Theatre's commitment to sustainability
Includes downloads 'Sustainability Action Plan' and 'Greening Production Practices'
Standards for making productions sustainably, making theatre buildings sustainable, and improving operations
Brilliant folks, who can help you work out your carbon footprint, and adapt to be more sustainable
Work out the carbon footprint of your work (specifically created for livestreamed / digital events, and digital artworks)
Other useful/interesting things:
- A search engine that plants a tree for every search – ecosia.org
- Personal and business carbon offsetting – ecologi.com
- A UK-wide cultural programme inspiring urgent and inclusive action on climate change – seasonforchange.org.uk
- A global community of arts and cultural champions declaring a climate and ecological emergency – culturedeclares.org
- What's your website's carbon footprint? – websitecarbon.com
- Scotland's largest combined arts organisation has declared a climate emergency – eden-court.co.uk/climate-crisis
- Read about HOME's sustainable procurement, programming … and their bees – homemcr.org/about/sustainability
- This book includes loads of practical hints and tips for digital sustainability – Sustainable Web Design by Tom Greenwood
- In this video, Tim Frick explains how the effects, as well as potential solutions, of our ever-more digital way of life – Sustainability And The Web: Are We Tweeting Our Way To A Warmer Planet?
As well as planting trees in the UK for every new website project, Supercool is a Climate Positive Workforce – offsetting our carbon footprint by planting trees in Madagascar, Kenya, and Uganda. Keep an eye on our progress:
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