Sustainability

Growstuff is committed to sustainability -- environmental sustainability, sustainable communities, sustainable work practices, and more.

Supporting sustainable food
Growstuff, by its very nature, supports sustainable food options. Growing your own food reduces food miles, increases biodiversity, and improves self-sufficiency and resiliency in the face of climate change.

Business practices and suppliers
Growstuff attempts to use environmentally sustainable practices and to choose suppliers who do the same.

To that end, our website is hosted with a provider that uses 100% renewable energy to power its data centres: GreenQloud. When the time comes to choose suppliers for other business needs we'll be preferring those who offer low carbon/recycled/etc products.

Sustainable software development
The classic Silicon Valley/venture-funded startup model leads to businesses that aren't sustainable in the long run. Rather than work ourselves to shreds, only to sell out to a big corporation who'll shut down our service or mistreat our users, we are running our project so that it will serve everyone better for longer.

For one thing, our code is Open source and we also release Open data, meaning that even if we disappear, what we've built will be available forever.

We also follow a development process that respects our contributors' time and energy, and have Community guidelines that help us make sure everyone feels supported. This means more people can contribute, fewer will burn out, and we are healthier in the long term.