Sustainability

Spring Cleaning

It is important to keep in mind that generally, the more code that needs to be loaded, the more resources it takes. It is a good practice to review the modules that you use on your site on an annual basis, and see if there are any that are no longer needed.

The Drupal community understands it has a responsibility to both people and the planet. Our Sustainability Statement includes both our code and our community. This is both an overview of what has been done to reduce the environmental footprint of running Drupal. 

The Drupal Association is currently not set up to do carbon accounting for Drupal.org and associated sites. Drupal.org is an unusually large and complex site, as it is where much of the development of Drupal takes place. This guide the following is some guidance for the hundreds of thousands of sites which use Drupal and may need to start doing carbon accounting.