Barbara Lange, principal and CEO of Kibo121 and representing Greening of Streaming, presents the LESS Accord (Low Energy Sustainable Streaming) – Working Group 6’s initiative to define best practices for employing compression across streaming workflows to maximize energy efficiency while maintaining a default good quality of experience. She dispels a common misconception – that there is almost no direct relationship between internet traffic (gigabytes) and energy (kilowatt-hours) – and outlines the accord’s four projects: (1) Intelligent Distribution Model Shifting, seamlessly moving CDNs among unicast, peer-to-peer, and multicast based on energy; (2) ‘Good Enough,’ saving energy through codec choices and default eco modes; (3) end-to-end energy measurement, tagging each workflow step with kilowatt-hour ‘breadcrumbs’ in the metadata; and (4) moving workloads to more efficient hardware and cooling – including relocating non-time-critical transcoding to surplus wind power in Scotland. She closes with how to get involved through Greening of Streaming’s open working groups and events.