Welcome to the Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group. This TAG works with the open source community to define environmental sustainability factors for the cloud native landscape, incubate and advocate open source projects to observe and measure Cloud Native infrastructure carbon footprint, optimize and eventually reduce carbon footprint and promote Cloud Native infrastructure to combat environmental challenges.
We want to raise awareness of environmental sustainability as a key element of open source development and support projects which foster an understanding of energy drivers. All activities should positively impact the community by changing mindset, increasing efficiency, and putting sustainability on everyone's agenda.
Currently there is no dedicated section on the CNCF landscape that lists projects in the sustainability category, but you can check our Landscape Document for more information about projects in the cloud native and open source space that are making an impact in the area of cloud native environmental sustainability.
TOC repository: CNCF Technical Advisory Groups ("TAGs").
TOC approves TAG leads and Tech Leads via PR in the cncf/toc repo. Working group, project and initiative leadership is agreed between the TAG and their liaison and is listed in this section of the README file.
In addition to what you can find in this repository, the TAG Environmental Sustainability maintains the website tag-env-sustainability.cncf.io to more easily present information about TAG.
Technical projects are managed in the cncf-tags/tag-env-tooling repository.
All the most important links for TAG Environmental Sustainability are also available from a single Linktree page: cncfenvtag.
We encourage new contributors to read the Contributor Guide. If you have any questions, please contact us through the channels mentioned in this and Meeting administration section below.
Following working groups operate under the TAG Environmental Sustainability:
| Working Group | Scope and Goals | Meeting Time |
|---|---|---|
| Green Reviews | green-reviews/charter.md | green-reviews/README.md#meetings-and-contact |
| Sustainability Advocacy | sustainability-advocacy/charter.md | sustainability-advocacy/README.md#meetings-and-contact |
Please take a look at the Project folder to discover all smaller scoped projects of the TAG.
- Meetings are every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month at 8am PST on Zoom. Meeting notes and agenda are available here.
- TAG ENV APAC meetings are taking place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 12pm GMT/5:30am PT on Zoom.
- Mailing list via cncf-tag-env-sustainability@lists.cncf.io Meeting notes are available here. Agenda is created as a GitHub issue for every upcoming meeting.
- Slack channels on
slack.cncf.io: - Social Media:
- LinkedIn: CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability
- Twitter/X: @CNCFEnvTAG
- YouTube: @CNCFEnvTAG
Import the TAG ENV Calendar feed into your calendar from following URL: TAG ENV Calendar. Subscribe to someone’s Google Calendar. In this case your calendar will be automatically updated once new events are published.
Currently we don't have a dedicated roadmap document, but we have a GitHub issue to track the work related to its creation. Once the document is created, this section will be updated.
Project board can also be referenced for more details regarding items that the TAG is working on.
The CNCF TAG Environmental Sustainability Charter in the TOC repository further outlines the scope of our group activities as well as the goals and intended deliverables.