When we moved our service provider in 2008, the opportunity came up to have a carbon neutral footprint for the website. This involves paying for Carbon Offsetting for the energy used to run the website from our new provider. Carbon offsetting is provided by COCO2 (www.coco2.org).

About carbon offsetting:

"Carbon Offsetting is the method by which you can minimise your impact on the environment through global warming. For every one ton of CO2 your activities produce, you can enable one ton to be saved somewhere else in the world.

This is done through projects such as planting trees, creating wind farms or investing in renewable energy projects throughout the world. For example, if your website needs electricity that emits half a ton of CO2 per year, then we could plant trees that offset that effect by taking half a ton of CO2 out of the atmosphere.

As well as offsetting, you should try and reduce your carbon emissions to an unavoidable minimum. Once your carbon offsets equal your carbon output, you can call yourself ‘carbon neutral.’"

text: www.coco2.org

About COCO2:

"We calculate your offset purchase price and invest the money in carbon offsetting schemes on your behalf. A proportion of your money will be placed in a fund, which is used monthly to offset your emissions. We will ensure that the offsetting companies adhere to all future government regulations’and advice carbon offsetters and invest in a range of projects from planting trees, to providing energy for poor villages in Africa. We believe that the broader the range of products we invest in, the greater the impact in helping the environment. We commit to publish annually how much we have offset and To whom."