The Climate Ed Tech Toolkit is a free, open-access resource developed by the Association for Learning Technology’s Digital Sustainability SIG, a group of individuals from several UK universities working at the intersection of educational technology and the climate crisis. It grew out of a series of workshops run in 2024 on digital education and the climate and ecological emergency, which crowdsourced ideas from colleagues in London, the UK, China, and New Zealand.
Rather than offering abstract guidance, the toolkit is structured as a practical, five-step pathway: getting to know your own environmental impact, asking the right questions, collaborating with colleagues, holding the conversation, and finally taking action. Each step is presented as its own page, making the toolkit easy to work through individually or adapt for a workshop within your own institution. A “useful resources” section rounds things out with further reading and tools.
What stands out is the toolkit’s practicality and self-awareness: it’s hosted on GitHub Pages specifically as a low-carbon hosting choice, earning an A* rating on the Website Carbon scale, a nice example of walking the talk. It draws on external frameworks like Nature’s Workforce to help translate concern into concrete workplace action, and its openness (the underlying content is also on GitHub) means institutions can adapt or build on it rather than starting from scratch.
For anyone in media literacy, ed-tech, or higher education thinking about the environmental footprint of digital tools and practices, this is a lightweight, ready-to-use starting point for sparking that conversation internally — whether as a discussion prompt for a team meeting or the basis for a dedicated workshop.
Explore the toolkit: Climate-Ed-Tech-toolkit
