Carbon Neutral. That's us. Maniki's webshoting service is carbon neutral. They've calculated the impact of everything that the servers use and leave behind in the course of their daily work. All of the resources that they use - paper in the office, electricity for the servers, even the gas in the employees' cars that bring them to the office - leaves behind some kind of soul-sucking residue in the world. When they learned that running such webhosting servers generated as much carbon dioxide as 545 average-size homes they realized they had to do something. Renewable Energy Credits Putting a price on carbon output is just one way to help make the world a better place. It's a first step towards true energy sustainability. Organizations large and small are constantly working on reducing their environmental emissions. When they do so a neutral third party then steps in to verify the reduction and issues what are known as "Renewable Energy Credits". Our web server has purchased enough of these credits - which are retired after purchase and not resellable - to account for their energy usage. The proceeds of these credit purchases are then put toward funding further emission reduction and renewable energy projects. We are not currently able to actually power our servers with the wind or the sun, but this is the next best thing! Their Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) have been certified by Green-e. Carbon Credits They've also purchased carbon credits from The Gold Standard. These credits come directly from reductions that meet standards established by the Kyoto Protocol and offset emissions from projects that would otherwise not exist. What else can we do? They are always looking for more ways to reduce their resource usage around the office and the data center. They use coffee cups made from fully renewable resources. In the last couple of years they've also been deploying many more servers with notoriously power-efficient AMD processors. As processor and server technology continues to evolve they'll follow the path of power efficiency. It just makes sense! Maniki will keep hosting its website on such power-saving server. No matter what.