It came to mind that if we're going to pay carbon credits for: * Hosting our server (Peer1)
Might it also be the right thing to pay for carbon used in the following fixed costs: * Manufacturing the server (Intel/AMD, countless circuit manufacturers) * The energy used to refine the resources * The energy used to extract the resources to manufacture the server (mining firms) Might it also be the right thing to pay for carbon used in the following services: * Some fraction of the power used to maintain any router touched by any packet originating to/from Hcoop (backbone providers, lots of tier-3 ISPs) * Carbon used in facilitating any financial transactions (Wells Fargo & Paypal) This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, because I don't believe anyone is really suggesting this. But where do we draw the line? Nathan Kennedy wrote: > I had previously discussed environmental policy here and in #hcoop and > got some positive feedback, but Adam wanted me to bring it up on the > list again before we act on it. > > The immediate action I want to take is to have HCoop buy wind energy > credits from NativeEnergy to offset its electricity consumption at > Peer1. At our current level the 5000 megawatt per annum level at $4 > per month would suffice. I previously pledged to donate the first > year's worth of credits to the co-op, so this will not cost members > for a year, and thereafter it should continue to cost well under $0.05 > per month per member. > > I think this is important and beneficial for many reasons, outlined at > EnvironmentalPolicy on the wiki, and I propose that the board adopt > all the proposals at that page as official HCoop policy henceforth. > > First, there is the Rochedale Principle of social responsibility and > the basic moral principle of cleaning up after ourself. Hosting is a > fairly clean business; the two biggest environmental costs are > hardware disposal and dirty electricity generation. > > From a less altruistic perspective, the tiny cost of going totally > green presents a great marketing opportunity. We can use green-e and > NativeEnergy tags, join the EPA Green Energy Partnership, be listed in > green business directories, and just generally attract interest as not > only a unique cooperative providing great service at great value, but > wind-powered too. > > That's about all I have to say for now. If anyone has any questions > or comments please do reply to the list. > > -ntk > > _______________________________________________ > HCoop-Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > _______________________________________________ HCoop-Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
