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Green Leaf Digital offers carbon offset free hosting powered by solar energy

Green Ethos

Digital media encompasses everything from website design to email campaigns. And as more and more marketing material is now designed, stored and distributed digitally, the carbon footprint of the industry is continuing to grow.

At Green Leaf Digital we're committed to making a difference in any way we can. Whether it be using cutting edge solar powered techonology for web hosting, or funding biomass energy projects in Brazil, our aim is to reduce emissions as much as possible.

The servers we use for our hosting division Green Leaf Hosting are powered by solar energy to offer the only true carbon free hosting in the world. Based in California, where the sun always shines, it's an easy and affordable way to lower you carbon footprint. Especially when you consider that the data centre industry has the same environmental impact as the aviation industry.

Our entire office and everything we do has been carbon offset, so that we are a fully carbon neutral company. Offsetting can be tricky businesses, with a number of poorly implemented programmes, including the dubious act of tree planting. Thats why we have chosen only to government asured offsets. They are offsets which have had to undergo a quality assurance check and meet the following criteria:

  • Calculate your emissions accurately
  • Sell good quality carbon credits that comply with the Kyoto Protocol and have been verified by the United Nations or the EU’s emission trading scheme
  • Cancel the credits within a year of you buying them and ensure that the same credit isn’t bought twice
  • Have transparent prices for their credits – e.g. how much they cost per tonne of CO2provide you with information about the role of offsetting in tackling climate change and advice on how to reduce your carbon footprint