This carbon neutral thing is really taking off with online companies. DreamHost, who hosts some of my websites, including this one, has gone carbon neutral.
They started this as of April 20, and they took a lot into consideration. In figuring their carbon production, they considered a great deal:
It means we’ve calculated our carbon footprint. Our footprint represents 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 1300+ servers, even the gas in our cars that bring us to the office
Pretty good thinking. I like that they didn’t skip that employees have to get there.
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