The creation and maintenance of your website runs on electricity which we all know impacts our environment. Puffinworks has taken steps to ensure that our business—and thereby your website—is as environmentally friendly as possible.
- power our office with sunlight
- offset our remaining carbon emissions and support renewable power
- save energy whenever possible
- support worldwide conservation efforts
Solar Powered Office
Our office resides in an energy-efficient passive solar building that is powered by a 4kW photovoltaic
system, producing much more power than our office uses each year.
Offsetting carbon emissions and supporting renewable power
Our off-site dedicated servers require a small amount of additional electricity that is not renewable energy powered.
Instead of ignoring this, we contribute to the Carbonfund.org, a
renewable energy program that offsets this additional power consumption. Carbonfund.org uses the money to fund zero-emission wind,
solar, geothermal, and biomass renewable energy programs, either through direct investments or renewable energy certificates.
These contributions, along with our solar-powered office, make Puffinworks not just carbon-neutral, but energy positive, meaning that we produce more power than we use.
Saving energy
We buy only "Energy Star"
computers, monitors and printers; we configure our computers to save energy by turning off idle monitors and hard disks when not in
use; we use fluorescent light bulbs and auto-adjusting thermostats; we recycle used equipment whenever possible... you know the drill.
We take it seriously.
Supporting worldwide conservation causes
Finally, each year we provide several thousand dollars worth of pro bono work for conservation
nonprofits, along with an annual contribution of $1000 to The Nature Conservancy,
furthering its good work toward conservation easements that foster habitat and open space preservation worldwide.
The result is that your website is energy positive in more ways than one.
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