Blog Action Day - Green Hosting a Farce?
Posted on October 15th, 2007
Today is Blog Action Day and if you haven’t guessed the topic is about the environment.
BlueFur announced in February that as corporation we will be off balancing the carbon emissions used by our servers by planting trees. Since then a lot of flack to Green Host’s has come about saying that carbon balancing does not in fact make your company Green at all.
With that in mind what do you think about Green Hosting?
Personally I agree that carbon balancing is a fast way to provide a Green solution. It does not mean that we are using Green energy for all of our servers.
I still believe that corporations that do carbon balancing are in fact Green. These responsible corporate citizens are part of the solution where those doing nothing are part of the problem. Switching to all Green energy although a great idea is not feasible for everyone.
Before deciding how to provide a Green solution we did a lot of research in what would be the best solution. The long term benefits of planting one tree per server per year means we are in fact more then overbalancing for the amount of carbon used by that server.
Some criticism is that hosts are doing this as a marketing ploy. I assure we have no marketing ploy in mind when making the decision to be Green. In fact the intent was by going Green we could encourage other companies in our area to get into carbon balancing.
Is your company Green? If not why?
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The only way for a host to be truly Green is for them to setup a datacenter wheres there’s lots of sunlight, wind and a river that they have to themselves. The sunlight for solar power, the wind for wind turbines and the river for a dam to make electricity. Then, they could also use energy efficient PSU’s for their servers (Antec has them for desktop computers).
Even then, they might not be producing enough power to be completely green.
Not to mention, this would cost millions of dollars.
Where do you plant the trees anyways? Or do you donate to some company that plants trees?
[...] Gary Jones provided some insight into why BlueFur decided to participate in carbon balancing and how some people don’t believe that makes them a green company. In my opinion, I would [...]
There are so many different avenues that society is creating to improve issues like carbon emissions and excessive energy use.
Do you know that Congress has a chance to pass a monumental energy bill? We’re talking about a bill that would free us from foreign oil, help our economy, lower gas prices, and create jobs all at the same time. But interest groups are trying to make sure the two most important provisions (a fuel economy standard of 35 mpg and a renewable electricity standard of 15%) don’t make it into the final bill.
I am working with a coalition to make sure Congress passes a bill that puts the American people and economy first, not lobbyists. You can help, just sign the petition at http://www.energybill2007.org.
and tell Congress to do the right thing.