Aiso uses 120 solar panels to power their offices and servers.

Aiso is located in Romoland, California just 120 miles East of Los Angeles and is one of the few green web hosts that have been around for a really long time. Aiso started their businesses 1997 and they “are growing an average of twenty percent per year and expect this trend to increase over the next few years”. Being one of the first green web hosts really helps, then you can be sure they offer green hosting because they actually cares.

Aiso are one of the few hosts that offers hosting 100% powered by solar panels, a renewable and clean energy source. They don’t buy any energy credits (RECs) to offset their environmental footprint.

AISO.Net is a reliable and responsible green web hosting company. We have made a strong commitment to help fight pollution and preserving our natural resources. Solar panels run our data center and office, not energy credits. Solar tubes bring in natural light from the outside providing light during the day. AMD Opteron powered servers use sixty percent less energy and generate fifty percent less heat. These are just some of the ways AISO.Net is becoming the world’s most responsible green web hosting company.

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From commercial director Mac Carter and producer Sean Welch (Spellbound, Rocket Science) comes a short film about one ordinary guy’s extraordinary effort to make a difference in global warming. Commissioned for the Live Earth SOS campaign this sweet film follows Dave and his dogs as they tour Los Angeles Asian food restaurants in search of waste vegetable oil to turn into biodiesel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjQ237KsxYo
http://veggy-diesel.spaces.live.com

Fujitsu Siemens Computers says that their brand new tower server Primergy TX120 is the most energy efficient server in the world. Primergy TX120 is said to consume 40% less energy than conventional tower servers. The Primergy TX120 is also one-third the size and makes half the noise (producing 28dB while idling and 31dB in operation).

TX120 uses a redesigned heat pipe air cooling system. Although previous systems have used heat pipe cooling, reducing the size of the unit required a new component alignment strategy. In the TX120 all heat producing components, CPU, chipsets, etc, are strictly aligned along a linear heat pipe. Two small temperature controlled fans also sit either side of the pipe in a push-pull arrangement. Another benefit of the heat pipe is it enables the user to choose either vertical or horizontal server installation. Unlike water cooling used in some small servers, heat pipe provides similar quiet operation, requires fewer components, and with no potential leakage problems is more reliable.

According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers the use of TX120 instead of a larger tower server can reduce CO2 emissions by the equivalent of planting 31 cedar trees per year.

We are almost there! We have just launched our brand new site design (some small changes still needs to be made) as you can see. This one has a more nature and green feeling over it, don’t you think? And we have our old logo back up and running, after being a bit updated of course.

But we still have lot’s of things that needs to be done. For example we need to start our green community, re-write everything on the site, and add more content, guides and tips, tools and much more.

We are still looking for new team members that can contribute to this project.

Currently we are not looking for any new team members. But we are always looking for guest authors or people who would like to contribute to Green Blog on a regular basis. For more information check out our forum or contact us via email.

Green Blog is looking for people who would like to contribute. We especially need coders, designers, webmasters, writers and bloggers. But if you feel you just want to contribute in any way possible please contact us for more information. It doesn’t matter how old you are, from which country you come from or how good you code. We need people who can be dedicated and wanting to change this world to the better. It’s an extra plus if you already are a blogger.

But why do we need new team members? Well, we are planning on releasing Green Blog 2.0 in a very near future (hopefully before the end of the year). And to do this we need people who can contribute as much as possible to make the release of Green Blog 2.0 successful.

If you feel interested please contact us for more information. Thank you!

It’s here and LIVE! First out is Australia at 01:15 GMT.

Watch Live Earth live on MSN. Learn more about Live Earth and sign the pledge.

Answer the call!

The energy revolution starts today! Join the global movement and take action against the climate crisis: http://www.liveearth.org

You can also join Greenpeace’s seven step challenge to cut down on your energy usage: greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/take_action/7steps

Thank you!

Hi everyone! It has gone a few weeks without anything heard from us here. We are sorry but the swedish summer is short and sweet and you just has to enjoy every minut of it. Oh well, enough of that. Let me tell you about something that we have been thinking about for a while now.

We want to help you make the right decision and help fight global warming. We also understand if you find it hard to move to a green host. Maybe you can’t afford to move from your free blog host or there might be something else. That is why we are planning on offering free environmental friendly WordPress blogs. Yes, you heard right, we want to give you acess to a green WordPress blog with all it’s great features, for free.

But it’s a long way until we actually can do this. That’s why we will soon invite a few blogger who wants to test out our service. If you feel you want to become a part of this beta testing please contact us or make a comment here in this post.

This is what you will get:

• The blog will be run on WordPress (”WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.”).
• The blog will have spamfilter.
• You will be able to import blog posts and comments from Blogger, Blogware, DotClear, GreyMatter, LiveJournal, Movable Type and TypePad, Textpattern
  and WordPress.
• You will be able to use your own domain name (ex: www.yourdomain.com)
• If you don’t have your own domain name we will set up a sub-domain for your blog. It will look like this: yourblogname.green-blog.org

This is what we require:

• You need to be an active blogger.

Please note that in return of this free service we will have one ad displayed on your blog.

Okay, those are the basic stuff. More information will be posted and listed. Please understand that we might or might not go all the way with this. It’s still one of our projects that we decided to go public with so that we could be able to hear your responses, ideas and feedback. If we don’t get enough “good” responses or if we think we won’t be able to fullfill this the project will be terminated closed (sounds better :)).

Stay tuned for more news about this!