We always try to be very nice to the environment. We use mostly natural or recycled materials for our craft and reuse packaging when mailing, we drive a very efficient car and constantly lecture the kids to switch the lights off, but never turned a thought to how damaging to the environment blogging might be.
It’s not blogging per se, but the use of servers, routers, switches, computers and all that other technology, that enables us to blog and readers to view our blog, that makes for co2 omissions of around 8lbs a year for the average blog with 15,000 visits per month. Luckily the average tree absorbs around 11lbs of co2 per year. And even more lucky are we to find this programme that promises for every domain to sign up, they will plant a tree to offset the carbon output of your blog. Now, we have planted a heck of a lot of trees and bushes in our garden in the past year and have plans for many more but these people plant them specifically to offset your blogging and we have many more activities we need to offset with our own trees and bushes…travel, electricity, heat, general consumption…
So, from this day forward, our blog will be carbon neutral as demonstrated by this rather splendid graphic…yippee!
If you have a blog, please join this programme. It’s free and very easy to join and there really can never be too many trees.
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