Nathan Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
These are both fairly compelling reasons, and the cost isn't prohibitively high, so I support this. -- Michael Olson -- FSF Associate Member #652 -- http://www.mwolson.org/ Interests: Lisp, text markup, protocols -- Jabber: mwolson_at_hcoop.net /` |\ | | | Projects: Emacs, Muse, ERC, EMMS, Planner, ErBot, DVC |_] | \| |_| Reclaim your digital rights by eliminating DRM. See http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm for details.
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