Thinkhost offers 100% green hosting

Thanks to Thinkhost, even your web hosting can now be green. Thinkhost, Inc. is devoted to environmentally friendly web hosting, specializing in reliable, well supported hosting solutions for hobbyists, community groups and small to medium sized businesses, providing stable support for technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Perl and Microsoft FrontPage.

ThinkHost is approved "for people and for planet" and recommended by Co-Op America, a respected non-profit membership organization consisting of thousands of green businesses and tens of thousands of eco-savvy consumers. All of their hosting plans are 100% wind/solar (90%/10%) powered. Thinkhost is able to do this by calculating the electricity usage of their servers and staff and then purchasing wind and solar green energy tags through Green-e, the nation's leading independent certification and verification program for renewable energy. They still pay their normal electric bills, but by purchasing green tags they ensure that whatever energy they consume is pumped into the grid as renewable energy, thus they remain carbon neutral. In addition to this, most of their employees "telecommute," saving thousands of gallons of fuel annually. They also use as little paper as possible and mostly use notebook computers to save energy. They recently started a tree planting program in which they plant a tree for each new client. You can review some of their green plans for yourself here.

On top of being 100% green, Thinkhost is a socially responsible company, contributing to many community based organizations. ThinkHost also offers non-profit community based organizations and progressive companies discounted web hosting. Some community groups focused on peace, environment or social justice may even be eligible for free hosting.

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