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.
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I've been thinking a lot about this too. Great to see ya'll putting your brains to this.
Recently I found Sustainable Websites. Looks like it might be a good option for "green hosting" that uses wind power for energy etc. Also check out this guy Ian Storck.
I think North Carolina could use a green web host business. Now that Wilson, NC has very competitive Fiber to homes and business maybe that's the place to set it up. I wonder what their laws would say about a mini wind farm?
Thanks for sharing! It seems that as with the case you post, for the most part "offsets" is the best we can do currently. I've only found one hosting company which claims to actually use wind/solar, and they didn't have the offering I need. I'll keep looking from time to time, but in the mean time I'll write a donation to NC Green Power into my budget as I put my new set of servers in place.
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