Last month Catalog Choice signed up for an innovative service that will offset the carbon impacts associated with our website. The service, CO2Stats, calculates the greenhouse gas footprint of visits to your site, based on locations of your visitors and servers, computer types, window and monitor sizes, local fuel mixes, download sizes and times. At the end of every month, CO2Stats will purchase Green-E certified Renewable Energy Certificates to offset our site’s CO2 footprint. Users can inspect our certificates and other environmental statistics by clicking on our CO2Stats badge.
We’ll be adding badge to our main site shortly. If you want one for your site, head on over to CO2Stats and sign up. For those of you interested in the details, here is how the service works:
Wow, I’d never encountered the CO2Stats service before. Sounds very sophisticated! I like it.
My husband and I have a contract with the local utilities company for up to 400 kWh per month in wind power. We’ve actually used an average of only 325 kWh per month for the past year. So the computer is running very clean in our home, but I do worry a little about the servers elsewhere. Nice to know that Catalog Choice is so attuned to this issue.
You can further reduce your site’s environmental impact by using a truly solar-powered ISP such as my hosting provider, aiso.net, in Romoland, California.
Barrie