We looked for a green hosting provider to keep our site online.
As much as 4% of the world’s total carbon emissions come from data centres upon which we rely for our online resources. Most of these are powered by fossil fuels but many hosting companies now work to provide green options, by exploiting renewable energy, offsetting their energy use and by attending to efficiency.
Corporate and national data banks require energy; individuals casually build up digital hoards through photographs, documents and information that is neither accessed nor destroyed.
Your online photographs, documents and information are part of your energy footprint
Even if you don’t host a website, you can review how green your online needs are. Everything we do can be considered from how it affects our environment. Each year sees new household innovations connecting to the cloud as ovens, door-bells and a range of devices monitor and record our lives; keeping that data demands energy as the amount of digital data accumulated increases.
‘Ecological conversion’ is a good term to describe how awareness of our planet can become part of our way of thinking.
What Can You Do?
- Review your online storage needs. Every abandoned account you delete will reduce the load and energy your lifestyle has come to require.
- Make good choices about the hardware you use and consider how much needs to be online.
- Check out hosting providers like green-powered hosting like ours.
- Use a browser or search-engine such as Ecosia.