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Run green software and AI as a gated, measured practice, from requirements to retirement.
Carbon, energy, water and waste managed together at every stage of the lifecycle and every layer of the stack: a green gate at each software and AI stage, a footprint budget, reduction work verified one change at a time, and one register read at a quarterly review.
10h 30m
13
30 question
80%
Certification
GreenOps Practitioner
How the course works
Gated rather than aspirational
Practices, gates and owners placed in the reviews and pipelines that already exist, modeled on the quality and security gates teams already run.
Pairs with FinOps
A shared allocation core and tagging, with cost and footprint read side by side as two ledgers, never merged, and reviews coordinated rather than duplicated.
Verification in every practice
The measurement that confirms a change is part of the practice, not an afterthought.
What this course helps with
A checkpoint at every stage
A green gate at the end of each stage states what is measured, the pass criterion and who signs it off, so footprint is designed in rather than found afterwards.
Improvements you can evidence
Each attributable change is measured before and after on a held basis, so its effect is confirmed or refuted.
Signals that reach someone who can act
An owner for each gate and budget, so an exceeded budget leads to a recorded decision rather than a silent exceedance.
Who this is for
- Engineers and architects embedding green practice across the lifecycle
- Requirements, design and code reviewers, and product owners
- Platform, operations, SRE and DevOps teams
- Sustainability practitioners, and practitioners adopting GreenOps alongside FinOps
Related courses:
SCI for AI Practitioner is the hands-on companion: it produces the measurements this course teaches you to commission and read.
What you will work with
The operating cadence
What is reviewed monthly (or every sprint), quarterly, and when an external obligation requires it, and who owns the response when a figure moves.
The register
One shared record of budgets, gate results, measurement statements and decisions, written so someone outside the team can read it.
Reduction in production
The operations loop on the running feature: demand review, right-sizing, scaling, inference and carbon-awareness levers, each change quality-checked and made one at a time.
What you will be able to do
Course Lessons
The full course
01
Why Water, and Why You
Software feels dry, but the buildings it runs in use water for cooling, the electricity it consumes was made using water, and the hardware was manufactured with it. This module shows those three connections and closes the gap between the people who can see the water and the people who change the software.
module-01
02
The Four Layers: building, electricity, hardware, and the stress conversion
This module gives the three ways software uses water their proper names, as the draft SWI specification uses them, and adds a fourth layer that converts litres into how much each litre matters. It ends with the only line of arithmetic in the course.
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03
Consumption and Withdrawal: used up vs borrowed
Water figures come in two kinds, and confusing them is the most common mistake in reading them. This module teaches the distinction between water used up and water borrowed and returned, and the rule that the two are never added together.
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04
Reading a Water Number
This module teaches no calculations. It teaches how to look at any water figure, whether a provider report, a news headline or a colleague’s slide, and know what it does and does not say.
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05
Stress-Adjusted Water: a liter is not a liter
The same liter counts for more where water is scarce and for less where it is plentiful. This module turns that idea into arithmetic using a published factor per place, giving the conversion layer its full treatment at foundation depth.
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06
Small Things That Save Water
The earlier modules built a vocabulary; this one turns it into actions small enough to take this week, organised by role. None of them needs a water meter, a budget or permission to run a project.
module-06
07
Final Assessment
A final assessment of 12 questions - 80% to pass, 30 minutes, retake available.
Final Assessment
Assessment & Certification
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