By David Hamilton, theWHIR.com
October 21, 2008 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK Web hosting provider EZPZ Hosting (www.ezpzhosting.co.uk) now offers “carbon negative” Web hosting services, enabling customers to reduce their carbon footprint beyond neutral, according a company announcement Tuesday.
According to EZPZ, the company has taken the lead in the hosting sector to become the world’s first Web hosting company to achieve recognition from Planet Positive (www.planet-positive.org), a global organization aiming to address climate change. Planet Positive has created a stamp of approval for people, products, businesses and cities that have measured and reduced their carbon footprint and have gone beyond neutral status by offsetting their remaining footprint by at least 110 percent.
Working with UK carbon and sustainability consulting firm dcarbon8 (www.dcarbon8.com), EZPZ has measured the carbon footprint of its business, made a commitment to reduce it on an annual basis, and offset it by 110 percent by funding verified carbon projects. Specifically, EZPZ has committed funding to a variety of alternative energy projects in developing nations including a wind power project in India, a small hydroelectric installation in Brazil and solar panels for schools in South Africa.
“The obligation of corporate citizenship has been the driving force in our decision to become Planet Positive,” EZPZ Hosting director Daniel Butcher said in a statement. “We wanted to provide a green Web hosting service to clients who not only wanted to receive robust Web hosting services but also who want to make a meaningful contribution to our planet.”
While it may be the first to call itself carbon negative, EZPZ’s green initiative is comparable to Host Gator’s (www.hostgator.com) late August purchase of renewable energy credits to account for 130 percent of its electricity used to power and cool its shared and reseller servers. Also, all of Houston-based HostGator’s RECs specifically support wind power generated in Texas.
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