Saturday, July 5, 2008

Green Business Leadership

We'd heard that some rental car companies are renting hybrids. Calling around today, my wife was frustrated to learn that the options are few and far between in the Triangle area. Seems that just like the car manufactures, most rental companies are followers, looking behind, instead of business leaders looking forward.

Which gets me thinking—how can NacreData LLC do a better job of being a green business leader? Feel free to leave your suggestions in the comments.

Our transportation costs are largely non-existent — I work in a home office and everyone else currently doing NacreData work is also a home-based.

We're not a bulk hosting company, but I've read a few times (see http://blogs.business2.com/greenwombat/2007/02/photo_originall.html for instance) that server farms are power hogs. We're beginning to move more of the sites we manage onto virtual-machine based servers, where several server environments can share the resources of one physical machine.