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10-28-2009, 08:05 AM #1Disabled
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does this make my company green ??
i have a hosting company
think if this makes me green
everytime some one orders a package i plant 1 tree ... and and every time they donate a dollar i plant 3 trees.
does this make me green because over a year i would have planted over 3000 trees.
thanks
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10-28-2009, 08:21 AM #2Web Hosting Guru
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Do you actually plant these trees or your bs'ing?
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Mr. Terrence
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10-28-2009, 09:27 AM #3Web Hosting Master
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Glad to hear that you are really planting the tree for per order client. Its good thing that you are doing to save the world.
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10-28-2009, 10:23 AM #4Web Hosting Master
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IF you are truly planting the trees then yes that would be a good carbon offset. Consider switching your primary energy source to wind also if you have that option.
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10-28-2009, 04:50 PM #5Disabled
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I have rule in my hosting company ... never to lie and always to keep my words. i will not take peoples money for no reason. I wanted to this to be labeled has a "green host."
I was planning on using this site to do it. When i redo the yearly theme and configuration on my hosting company this in a week for the new year i was planning on using this site to go ahead with my plan.
http://www.mokugift.com/
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10-28-2009, 06:43 PM #6Private Citizen
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I was doing this for a while:
http://www.plantabillion.org/
Nobody seemed to care...
I will probably pick it back up soon and re-incorporate it into our offerings. Just because It's attempting to do something good/better.
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10-28-2009, 07:29 PM #7CISSP-ISSMP, CISA
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10-28-2009, 08:28 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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10-28-2009, 08:42 PM #9Newbie
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According to the web site in one year an acre of trees can provide enough oxygen for 18 people. Your carbon foot print for your hosting is more than your offer. So no.
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10-28-2009, 09:53 PM #10Disabled
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10-28-2009, 11:35 PM #11Private Citizen
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10-29-2009, 02:27 AM #12Newbie
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There's no official definition of being "green" .. it's all kind of a hype/fad/current phase the western world seems to be going through.
So sure, planting a tree could be considered "green" .. green enough to claim you're green on your website. And some people might sign up with you who wouldn't have otherwise.. maybe!
Or, you could buy carbon offsets to "offset" your electicity use. But how green is that? How many do you buy? From whom? Are they certified? Does buying carbon offsets really help the planet as much as planting trees? Probably?
Or, you could get only 5-year-old servers. You could work from home and use only solar electricity for your data center. You could only serve locally grown food at company picnics. You could outsource your tech support to some third-world country where the average person uses way fewer resources than the average person in your country.
You could keep doing this stuff forever, but the question will always be:
Does it matter?
Does it matter in terms of "helping the planet"? What does that even mean? Does it matter in terms of getting customers? I assume that's your real goal.
Cynically, if you're trying to just get customers out of it, sure, planting a tree per signup is probably going to give you the majority of the "green" marketing oomph going whole-hog green would!Last edited by chunkhost; 10-29-2009 at 02:29 AM. Reason: typo!
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10-29-2009, 10:26 PM #13Disabled
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I actually wanted to use it to reduce the impact my servers have on the earth. marketing was another benefit but most of the customers dont care what you use to run the servers
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11-03-2009, 11:36 PM #14Temporarily Suspended
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I think your company will be green when you will have an extra green in your packet ;-)
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11-04-2009, 04:31 PM #15WHT Addict
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11-04-2009, 04:49 PM #16Disabled
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11-05-2009, 11:08 AM #17Junior Guru Wannabe
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Low power consumption servers(and cooling units), and alternative power consumption (green power credits) are the only things you can really do that are relevant to hosting. Everything else is just a gimmick, and although it may be helpful to the environment, it's not directly related to your industry. It'd be like taking a daily multivitamin, but not quitting smoking.
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11-10-2009, 04:03 AM #18Newbie
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12-09-2009, 01:06 PM #19Newbie
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I wouldn't says that what your company does makes it green, it definitely helps the environment but it still uses non renewable energy.
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12-09-2009, 04:36 PM #20Web Hosting Master
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Yes, If you are really planting those threes then I don't see why you aren't a green web hosting company.
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02-05-2010, 10:07 AM #21Newbie
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It's a start, but IMO to be really green you need to look at everything your company does and work to reduce it's consumption of resources at all levels
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02-07-2010, 05:43 AM #22Newbie
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sounds nice, i agree. if you switch to green energy like whater or wind then you are fully green in my opinion.
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02-23-2010, 04:59 PM #23Newbie
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04-03-2010, 12:10 AM #24Web Hosting Master
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Okay, I have to respond to this because my wife and I are currently working on quitting smoking.
ANY Doctor worth there grain of salt is going to tell you that taking a vitamin daily, even if you do smoke, is going to still help your overall health.
Now, there are many ways to be green, but you have to realize we use power as hosts and we use metal, along with glass.
Although a tree only helps in some aspects, I can list a few.
1.) Power can come from a variety of sources, most commonly Coal and Gas plants. Each of these produces air pollution. Trees help clear the air of this.
2.) Mining for metals can degrade the land where it is done. Planting trees in areas where this has been done can help reclaim that land.
3.) see above regading metal for glass where the sands are mined to make glass.
As you can see, trees can help offset what we cause production as hosts.
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04-06-2010, 05:47 PM #25Temporarily Suspended
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Go Green or Go Lean, if you can create verifiable business efficiencies into your business and remove any unnecessary hardware then you could say that you are going green by going lean. You don't necessarily have to plant trees. In my opinion that is a lot of work. In all honesty, going green is more marketing than anything else, and if you can use it to your advantage then go for it. If you are doing trees, then you should definitely put a tree counter on the front page of your site.
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