  As sustainability takes center stage across businesses, green and
energy-efficient choices are more crucial than ever. While it is becoming
increasingly evident that software and the software industry are substantial
and rapidly evolving contributors to carbon emissions, there is a dearth of
approaches to create actionable awareness about this during the software
development lifecycle (SDLC). Can software teams comprehend how green are their
projects? Here we provide an industry perspective on why this is a challenging
and worthy problem that needs to be addressed. We also outline an approach to
quickly gauge the "greenness" of a software project based on the choices made
across different SDLC dimensions and present the initial encouraging feedback
this approach has received.
