More and more webhosts are going green these days. Well, pretty much everyone is trying to go green these days. Hearing about all this is really starting to piss me off! I can’t stand paying over $3 a gallon for gas, however is going green in everything really the answer? For instance, to create a hybrid car, it takes as much oil as powering 100 H2 hummers for a week! Also, when people buy hybrids it implies that they do alot of driving. They may drive more and actually end up paying the same amount for gas as they would with their non-hybrid.

Anyways, alot of webhosts these days are going “green”. The reason I am writing about this is simply because I noticed my webhost, Dreamhost, is actually 100% green, and I can’t believe this whole green thing is coming to the internet (and that is blog is a “green blog”). (Also, I just felt like writing a blog post that has nothing to do with internet marketing) Some webhosts are going as far as completely powering their own energy with windmills and solar panels on site!

Here is a short excerpt of Dreamhosts “We’re green” page:
“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.“

Either way, I think it is weird that this is coming online. What do you think about webhosts going green?
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