Eco-Power for Websites
Date: May 30, 2008 | Category: Lifestyle, Stores & Resources, Tech
We don’t really think of websites as having much of a carbon footprint, but as earth2tech points out, web hosting requires power that chiefly comes from fossil fuels, and computers run on electricity. A Harvard and Yale student duo is tackling this oversight and has created a new widget that tracks a site’s visitors, calculates its carbon emissions and offsets them, at no cost to the site. The CO2 Stats Project aims to fund the offsets through advertisers, which shouldn’t be hard given their growing popularity. Nearly 1,000 sites have signed up, garnering over a million unique visitors to the CO2Stats site already. Ecofabulous will no doubt be adding themselves to that growing list.
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