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Hi @jacklenox!

Thanks for making this - in the Green Web Foundation, we've been talking about opening up the database queried when you hit the Green Check API here:

http://api.thegreenwebfoundation.org/

And in particular, we're experimenting with something like a carbon.txt file, to let people with sites or running infrastructure declare the kind of info in a machine readable form, that they might enter manually on:

https://admin.thegreenwebfoundation.org

Is this a thing you'd accept?

Sketching out how the scheme might work

I'm thinking of an options page to let a user list information that they might enter on the site:

• if they're using some scheme for offsetting emissions from their site
• who their upstream provider is

Listing an upstream provider sends a request to upstreamprovider.com/carbon.txt, and displays the info, so ideally, we'd end up with a chain that might look like:

• person/company with website -> hostingprovider.com/carbon.txt
• hosting provider -> datacentre-operator.com/carbon.txt
• datacentre-operator.com -> energy-company.com/carbon.txt

Once we have an energy company, we're then able to check against an actual list of energy credits issued to companies generating power, to verify.

An example:

If I have a website here: https://blog.chrisadams.me.uk/2019/05/03/trying-out-an-indieweb-rsvp/

Which is hosted here: https://krystal.co.uk/

Who really run their physical servers here: https://www.netwisehosting.co.uk/data-centres/green-data-centres.html

Who get their power from here: https://www.ecotricity.co.uk/

I think there is a way to confirm this, independently because generated power is registered with this regulator here https://www.renewablesandchp.ofgem.gov.uk/

I can look up they the regulator publishes it as open data, which I can make searchable here https://greenweb-regos.herokuapp.com/regos-a486ca7/CertificatesExternalPublicDataWarehouse-csv?textbox39__contains=Ecotricity