About
Greenification
RECs & other Decarbonization Strategies
How To
Roadmap
Taking a lesson from the history of the Internet, Blocks.garden chunks the large problem of decarbonizig the historical emissions of ETH1 in small approachable steps, and packages it into a fun and engaging platform that allows the whole community to be motivated to participate.
<aside> 🔑 We’ve taken the 15+ million blocks of Ethereum-1 and turned them into an equal amount of pixels in a large canvas;
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Before “The Merge” upgrade reduced Ethereum’s energy consumption by 99.988% in September this year, it had consumed 59.6 TWh of electricity, practically as much as Denmark and Ireland together consume in one year. That’s roughly equivalent to 18.1 million tons of CO2 from 2015 to 2022.
This will cost hundreds of millions to decarbonize. Blocks.garden is an Ethereum community initiative doing exactly this, through small, approachable, and fun steps—while using blockchain tech in entirely novel ways to coordinate and incentivize the effort.
we built on top and added resolution to the excellen methodology by Kyle McDonald https://kylemcdonald.github.io/ethereum-emissions/
Inspired by 2005’s legendary Million Dollar Homepage, Blocks.garden is home to a massive internet billboard comprised of 15+ million pixels, each representing one of the 15+ million blocks that the Ethereum blockchain produced in its seven years before the “Merge” upgrade reduced its energy consumption by 99.992%. Buying pixels gives the owner the rights to modify their section of the canvas however they wish, but it also secures Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) needed to decarbonize those specific Ethereum blocks.
The visual result: an energetic canvas full of community sigils and logos erected by various Ethereum subcommunities, NFT artwork displayed by proud owners or communities, and memes. Lots of memes. (For reference, see Reddit’s “r/Place”, another piece of internet history which used this concept.)
The carbon result: 18 million tons of CO2 become decarbonized with clean energy and other offsets
Each pixel in the canvas is one Block on the Ethereum blockchain (up until the Merge) and you can
<aside> ✅ Each Block-NFT is paired with a Green-NFT, and the user also receives a human readable proof page where they can see, verify and tell the story of their impact. View a Green-Proof example for a sample Block
Impact view of a Green Proof - proving a Blocks.garden plot has been powered by Renewable Energy
Verify view of a Green Proof - where users can verify by themselves the data of the Renewable Energy Certificate
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<aside> 🔗 Learn more about the perks of being a Green Hero in Green Hero Score
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the Green Hero reputation score is a representation of how the Blocks.garden users are “good” towards the public good that is Ethereum. Due to the programmable nature of web3, this reputation score can become a web3 building block that can be used in other contexts to identify and give more rights / power to these good actors
Blocks.garden can be the ultimate platform to #MakeCryptoGreen - every chain can have a representation and a progress bar of how green they are
