Green Web Hosts use alternative / renewable energy, they plant trees, recycle waste and purchase RECs to power their datacenters. Green web hosting was barely around a few years ago, but has now come into the limelight. Nowadays some of the most widely known providers have made this switch to offer more eco friendly web hosting products. The start is usually small, by using bio fuel for heating purposes, and by recycling waste paper. More advanced forms of this environmental concern is shown by those data centers which run on alternative sources of energy such as geothermal, solar, and wind.

REC’s (as mentioned before) are Renewable Energy Credits, purchasing which; a company receives certification that they are doing their little part in being eco friendly.

There are numerous lists available across the internet which detail the amount that each web hosting company is doing in their effort to be eco friendly.

With the current levels of pollution at an all time high, the efforts made by these few companies is commendable. More companies should switch over, and put such practices into play.