“Environment-centered design is an approach to product or service development that aims to make products or services environmentally, socially and economically sustainable by focusing on the needs, limitations and preferences of target human audience and non-human strategic stakeholders. It involves knowledge and design techniques developed at the intersection of human-centered design, usability, ecology, and sustainability science.”
— Monika Sznel, The Time For Environment-Centered Design Has Come
When ideating consider the following areas of environmental impact and what metrics you would use to measure them:
Don’t only look at what you are building now but how future development might have an impact.
Projects focused on creating environmentally friendly blockchain products:
https://www.mightybytes.com/blog/environmental-digital-responsibility/