I’m Green!

Well not me, I’m kind of mocha-ish. The blog wrote the subject line, and it wasn’t lying. I’m (blog again) now being hosted on DreamHost, a super-duper green web hosting company. From their site:

“DreamHost is carbon neutral. We’ve calculated the impact of everything that DreamHost uses and leaves behind in the course of our daily work. All of the resources that we use – paper in the office, electricity for our servers, even the gas in our cars that bring us to the office – leaves behind some kind of soul-sucking residue in the world.

When we learned that running DreamHost generated as much carbon dioxide as 545 average-size homes we realized we had to do something to neutralize our emissions.

With a bit of research we found the most effective approach begins with resource conservation: turning off the lights, reducing travel, printing on both sides of the page. Efforts are being ramped up here daily to do what we do with less. The next step is to use clean, renewable energy. Without the option to put up solar panels or connect with a green power utility for us this means purchasing Renewable Energy Credits. Finally, to neutralize those unavoidable emissions we’ve invested in Emission Reduction Credits (a.k.a. “offsets”) which guarantee our remaining impact is effectively erased. A third-party-certification? Never fear. The credits we use to green our energy consumption and neutralize the rest of our emissions meet the highest standards in the industry.”

There’s more information here.

I’m back; me, the author. The transfer was a pain in the rear – for someone who doesn’t know a lot about web servers – but totally worth it. I’m happy to know that while I’m not wasting paper with my rants, the dirty energy being used to host my site is now being offset by Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).