My Blog Is Carbon Neutral

May 30th, 2010
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Carbon Dioxide Created By Blogs.
A study showed that an average website that receives 15,000 visits a month causes about 3.6kg or 8 pounds of carbon dioxide yearly. This carbon footprints came from the energy usage of mainframe computers, servers, and cooling systems that is used to keep your site online.

Carbon Dioxide Absorbed By Trees.
This is a value that cannot be precisely answered since a lot of factors can affect the trees capability to absorb carbon dioxide. However, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) assumes that one tree, on the average, can approximately absorb 10kg (20lb.) of carbon dioxide emissions.

8 lbs/year Carbon Dioxide Emission by Blogs
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20 lbs/year Carbon Dioxide Absorption of Trees

This clearly shows that one tree is more than enough to offset the emission of one blog. That is why a young team from Germany called kaufDA has cooperated with Arbor Day Foundation to make your blog carbon neutral. They will be planting one tree for every blog that will spread the word about their initiative. If you want to support their project and would like to know how to participate, check out their website.

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The trees are planted in Plumas National Forest in Northern California by “Arbor Day Foundation” our partner in US for the “My blog is carbon neutral” initiative. The “Arbor Day Foundation” is a non-profit conservation and education organization with the goal helping reforest 5,500 acres of Plumas National Forest with 792,000 trees.

If you want to know more about the program, check out this site.
If you’re a little skeptical, check out Recycle Bills’ journey in verifying the project.

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2 Responses to “My Blog Is Carbon Neutral”

  1. Titanium Runner says:
    May 30, 2010 at 7:21 PM

    Hmm… I wonder if my blog is Carbon Neutral? I got rid of the Top Blogs widget because I don’t want to be sucked into the numbers game [hold on, this relates to your article]. I don’t mind having thousands of visitors and that’s something that I am really excited in the future. But if that doesn’t even happen, just having family and friends read it and people getting inspired and learning life through running with what I wrote is enough for me. With that, I do believe mine is also Carbon Neutral! I will help spread the word!

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    • Ronnie says:
      May 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM

      I myself am contented with the few visitors im having. but i do not mind hitting that 15000 mark. But when I created this site, I told myself that this will be simply about me – no popularity, no rankings, no numbers, no quest for that seo rank. i think one tree is more than enough to offset my blog’s carbon footprint. since, today i ran for a tree, might as well blog for one as well. that means today, i added two trees in the world. :D

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