I would love to know what everything thinks about “Green Hosting”. There seems to be a lot of green washing out there, and maybe some legitimate resources, but at this point I haven’t heard much from any credible source. Do any of you use green hosting or know anything about what difference it makes or who’s telling the truth out there? Should we be as concerned with green hosting as we are with non-toxic inks and recycled materials – especially in an economy where everything is going digital?

Great question Gage. I often wonder about a lot of these so-called green web hosting companies as well.

One company that brings an effective component to your website is CO2Stats.com. It’s a web badge that calculates your website’s environmental footprint and finds ways to make your site more energy-efficient, automatically purchases renewable energy to make it carbon neutral and displays its the widely-recognized Green Certified Site mark.

I use supergreenhosting.com and trust that when the company says it is 100% carbon neutral, they are. I really don’t think there is much greenwashing in web hosting (as opposed to other consumer goods). More important than green web hosting, though, is green energy. My home office is 100% green energy, and I would love it if my employer also provided green energy for our huge office in Soho housing 100 computers, many with double monitors.