How You Can Protect Our Planet Earth As A Blogger
Everyone is aware about How bad the environmental condition is getting of our Planet Earth. As you will be aware of the recent conference being held at Copenhagen in Denmark where they will be talking about how they can reduce the carbon emission and various other ways to Save The Planet Earth.
And if you still aren’t aware about it, then you are probably a greedy person who don’t care about all this and only like to live in your luxurious life, but remember that your luxurious life won’t stay long if something really, really, really bad happens with Earth .
But It’s really a serious issue one should look at it with full respect. As a blogger, you can take 3 Simple Steps which can contribute really big towards saving our planet.
1. Use Green Hosting
As a blogger, one can choose Green Hosting for their blogs. It means that choosing those Web Hosting Companies which are using electricity for running their servers and offices produced from environmental friendly resources like Windmills. One of the main and best leader in web hosting companies and is still Green is HostGator.
HostGator is powering their servers and offices with the electricity produced from the Windmills situated at Texas city. All of their shared and reseller servers are 130% wind powered!
According to HostGator, It’s the equivalent of:
- Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
- Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or
- Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
- Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year
Just imagine how big you will be contributing by using such hosting. And I am proud to say that I am also a HostGator Customer. They are really good as hosting company. They are cheap, reliable and supportive, Plus they are Green! What else do you want?
2. Change Up The Lighting
When you are blogging, consider switching off those big lights(tube lights) and instead of it, try using CFL bulbs which provides really good light which is sufficient enough to let you blog properly and also it consumes very less electricity. You can also take this one step ahead by switching off the wall lights and bringing in a Table Light or A light which can be focused easily anywhere i.e you will get the required light at your workplace.
This can really help reduce the carbon emission as you will be saving electricity and the best part is that you will be saving lot of money on Electricity Bills. That means you are Making Money Taking such steps 
3. Configure Your PC
According to some studies, it has been found that reducing/adjusting the brightness and contrast of your monitor screen helps in saving electricity. Also, a study conducted at TechLogg stated that use of LCD monitors or Energy Efficient monitors can help in reducing the energy consumption. Other than that you can use low electricity consuming parts for your PC like Cooling Fan etc.
The Green Conclusion
I hope as blogger, we can contribute big part towards making the earth better from how it is right now. We can’t just talk on this matter of global warming as it has been already too late and one must start taking the steps from right now.
Let me know your thoughts. Tell me your ways so that we can protect our plant earth as a blogger.
Article written by Typhoon
Yo! I am Typhoon a.k.a Sushant, a 17 yrs. old blogger from India and the owner of SmartBloggerz. Here I try to share useful Blogging related articles which would help a blogger to succeed. You can connect to me on Twitter.Typhoon has written 332 superb article(s) on this blog
December 8, 2009
11:37 pm
Good step as a blogger to save our planet Earth…
December 9, 2009
12:37 am
Hi Typhoon,
Great post. I recently moved go hostgator but, didnt know that they use windmills.
Now i am happy that i have covered #1, I will try to cover up other points as well.
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December 9, 2009
6:46 pm
And i wonder, how the windmills is used. Since we know hostgator have a hundred or even thousand user, can the windmills infrastructure cover it all?
December 9, 2009
3:55 am
Protecting Environment and Earth Generally is mission to all people in Universe, but allow me to say this that here in Egypt , they no give any attention to this .
Actually we tried over and over to advise people to protect the planet, not just as blogger or internet users but also as all of us together .
I appreciate also what they do on HostGators and hope we can say them little Thanks words from here and contribute with them .
Planet is bleeding , please help as much as u can …
December 9, 2009
6:48 pm
I hope hostgator step become a start line for another host to do the same, in other mean, more people aware about what problem earth face in the future.
Well, is it needed to build a federacy or something like that to make rules which control about it? I mean, using windmills is a must, etc….
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December 9, 2009
6:54 am
I do agree with numbers 2 and 3 but I have to say that I am thinking that 1 is just away to promote your affiliate link.
I am not saying that it is bad to promote a link but I can’t easily accept the fact that hostagator is a company which abides to the “save the planet” protocoal just because they claim it to be.
Have you seen there place yet?
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December 9, 2009
4:44 pm
Here, the trust factor comes in place. There are many things that haven’t been proved yet but still you believe in it a lot.
Let’s take a basic example…You believe in God but have seen God? Did you saw any certificate regarding it?
Same is in this case..You will have to believe it because it’s a Big Company and they can’t lay with people with such high reputation.
More information On Hostgator Green Hosting Can be Found here:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/pre-sales-questions/hostgator-has-gone-green
http://www.hostgator.com/green-web-hosting.shtml
December 9, 2009
6:56 pm
Hostgator is a such big and famous company, so i believe it. But if i can, of course i want to see the windmills photos.
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December 9, 2009
7:45 am
Great article, as a blogger, we can be useful and contribute something for earth. Anyway, as an internet user, actually we already save earth because it’s saving an usage of paper production from tree and ink to write.
Green hosting is good idea. I have hostgator account, but i didn’t notice that HG have such kind of program. I’m so proud. Hope another hosting do the same
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December 9, 2009
10:52 am
Is it one marketing strategy of hostgator or are they really doing that for safe our environment. I agree that all we have same responsibility for safe our earth from GREEN HOUSE EFFECT and save our OZONE LAYER.
December 9, 2009
6:53 pm
Marketing strategy or not, we should appreciate hostgator way. Well, if you think it’s marketing, it’s remind us to one concept called “Green marketing”, when many businessman offer “green”-related product in way to get people who aware about that things become interested.
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December 9, 2009
11:49 am
As a blogger all three tips are useful.. Reducing and adjusting the contrast of pc helps in saving electricity is new information. As a blogger we can also write article based on global warming and we can create awareness among the readers and we can aslo create community regarding that.
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December 9, 2009
6:43 pm
Writing article to ask people for care of our earth is good idea. Especially, if the word is comes from popular blogger, it will affect so many people.
However, Now, it’s time for us to start by making simple article and publish it.
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December 9, 2009
12:49 pm
Really wonderful Sushant, if not all your users follow this atleast some would and that is really good. You are really doing your bit to save the planet and that is really cool. I don’t think India agreed to follow the guidelines of Copenhagen has it felt the measures could hamper economic growth. Moreover India pollutes 13 times lesser than America.
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December 9, 2009
1:55 pm
Yes I got number 2 and number 3, not sure if my host Bluehost is a green host.
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December 9, 2009
4:28 pm
PJ : Blue Host is a Blue and Green Host is Green
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December 9, 2009
5:51 pm
that’s a good one…you explain in one line.
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December 9, 2009
6:41 pm
LOL, it’s funny way to explain. Between blue or green have positive meaning for the earth. Blue from ocean, and green from a tree. I think bluehost is another alternative beside hostagator in way to protect our earth.
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December 9, 2009
5:51 pm
Nice article. Sometimes it sounds funny too.
I used to blogging with small light from table lamp.Am I protecting our planet? I think I did a little bit.
December 9, 2009
6:03 pm
yeah definitely you are saving our planet. Others can also follow this idea in blogging.
December 9, 2009
6:38 pm
Haha which is funny? Well, what you do is help our eatrh, but don’t you think it will hury your eyes? You can try to help earth, but don’t force yourself too much
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December 9, 2009
7:40 pm
What kind of bulb are you using? How many watts? You may be – or you may not be making a dent. How about unplugging appliances that are not in use? Some of them draw power constantly, even when they’re off.
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December 10, 2009
3:04 am
Do you mean such don’t let the PC on stand by condition? And always turn the monitor off after using?
Anyway, my bulb is 14w but sometime i’m buy the 20w. How about you?
As a blogger, we can also make 125×125 banner or widget saying some word such : SAVE EARTH…!!! or “Blogger Love Earth”
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December 9, 2009
6:51 pm
My plan now is to make article related to go green and post in on my blog. Well, for no #2 and #3, it’s good idea, but don’t push yourself to do it. For example, changing the contrast of your monitor to certain level which may cause your eyes getting hurt and tired so easily. Do it normally
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December 9, 2009
7:39 pm
Good tips! I’m with FatCow, and they’re also wind-powered. Though they use carbon offsets to make the claim. Thank you for supporting businesses in my area! HostGator is just down the road from me. (If I’d known before signing up with FatCow… well, c’est la vie. I’m happy with my Web host, too.) The only problem with your lighting suggestions is that after a while of doing this, it can give you headaches and eyestrain to work under standard, office flourescent tubes!
Give up paper cups and plastic foam cups, and just rinse your coffee cup daily – that helps, too.
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December 9, 2009
8:51 pm
FatCow is also using wind to generate power ??? this is awesome to share in protecting planet and am glad to know there is another hosting site is using clean power .
I hope all other sites do the same and not depending just on consuming all this much of power and Electricity .
December 10, 2009
2:59 am
Ok then green hosting should be appreciated by list it here. For now, we already get 3 : Hostgator, Fatcow, and Bluehost. I would like to know more.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 10, 2009
4:37 am
Yeah I don’t use coffee paper cups as I hae my own mug. As for host using green power I hope more and more host follows suit.
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December 10, 2009
7:14 pm
And just for info, green hosting is not about to use windmil only, but there is other green technique such using solar/carbon neutral. I know it when reading some review of green hosting site.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 10, 2009
3:01 am
After i read all comment, i’m so thanks that all is aware about our earth. Each person have each way to protect our planet, no matter if it’s simple or big step. All is useful. Well, as a blogger, i have one more idea about this things. If you want to running contest, how about making contest such “Save our earth video contest” or “Letter for earth contest”, it’s help.
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December 10, 2009
2:11 pm
I am using HostMonster hosting. Not sure it is green hosting or not.
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December 10, 2009
7:11 pm
I think it’s not green host since i can’t find it on the top 10 green hosting list. I’m sure if it’s green, it will listed on the rank.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 10, 2009
7:13 pm
Here is the list of green hosting :
- Hostgator
- Greengeeks
- Supergreen
-Thinkhost
- iPage
- Fatcow
- Hostpapa
Etc…will add it if i find more…
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December 11, 2009
12:17 am
akira07 thanks for this green hosting list.. how can we find find whether its green hosting or not..?any tips for that
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December 11, 2009
11:41 am
I find it on webhosting review site on green hosting category. So my list will surely green hosting. Thanks for the appreciation. If you know about more green hosting, just tell us.
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December 11, 2009
3:41 am
we can add
- BlueHost
- WebHostingPad
- DOT 5 Hosting
- Lunarpages
- HostMonster
- WebHostingBuzz
- GoGreenHosting
- AISO
to Green Hosting sites …
December 11, 2009
11:43 am
Ups, so hostmonster is green hosting also? I wonder why it listed on top 10 rank on general category, but not listed on top 10 rank of green hosting?
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
11:10 pm
we can also add Tigersites and Goodavocado in this list.
December 13, 2009
4:05 pm
Well, if we’re serious want to make a list, it can be a hundred. But just too notice, i think some of them is scam by telling about go green hosting, but in the real, their are conventional hosting. So, check testimonial and be aware
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
12:48 pm
Yeh all are used in green hosting….each have some specialization in it. For example
Hostgator is wind powered host
Greengeeks- green hosting
Supergreen-eco friendly host
Thinkhost- solar/wind powered host
iPage- wind powered host
Fatcow-green hosting
Hostpapa-green hosting
These are very famous in green hosting. Tigersites and Goodavocado are new in this green hosting…
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December 11, 2009
5:48 pm
For hostgator, thinkhost, and ipage we clearly know about the way their are using for saving energy to protect our earth. But for the other, is their really green? Since the information we get is just “Green hosting” without knowing what technique their are using.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 10, 2009
9:07 pm
As a blogger, we can easily write as many articles that we may in order to disseminate awareness but we cannot be sure that one or two will respond so basically, it boils down to starting it ourselves online or offline. Too much rant, less action equals no result.
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December 11, 2009
11:45 am
Yes, the main concentration is still should be for ourself first. About the less respond which may come to our “save planet”-related article, yes it’s too bad because sometime we need to give them something. But if we giving something such prize/freebies, i think it’s not a pure awareness about the importance of saving earth.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
10:31 am
We can also educate the readers on the development of gadgets for going green, such as solar panels etc for personal and home use.
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December 11, 2009
11:50 am
Making blog which have go green as main topic is also good idea. But based on google keyword external for “go green” keyword, i find the competition already tough
. Anyway, don’t make it for monetize purpose.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
11:54 am
I’m become interested to make blog with “go green” as main topic. But i will make it for local purpose, because i think it’s better to start for our country first
. Hopefully my interest is become bigger, and then the blog is realized.
Anyway, after looking around for some review site, and as i said, there is so many go green technique which hosting site use such windmil, solar, etc. Which is the best?
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December 11, 2009
12:52 pm
best wishes for starting blog with topic “go green”… Thinkhost will be best for both solar and wind… whats your opinion?
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December 11, 2009
5:46 pm
What i mean is the technique. But to respond about thinkhost, yes i think it’s best since using 2 ways to save energy in purpose to protect our earth. Anyway, thanks for the support for my interest of making go green blog.
Anyway, is there any “go green” related template for blogspot/wordpress?
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
8:11 pm
for wordpress we have many ” go green ” templates.. You can check about this here
1. http://wpstart.org/green-business-wordpress-cms-template/
2. http://wpmix.com/go-green-wordpress-theme/
3. http://themesphere.com/go-green-free-wordpress-theme.html
after setting “go green” blog inform us.
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December 12, 2009
6:01 am
Wow, nice template. I will decide to choose one the best. Of course i will use it if i’m realize my plan.
Anyway i hope there is a “go green blogger day” event
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December 12, 2009
12:34 pm
whats that ” go green blogger day” event?
December 13, 2009
4:01 pm
Hehe, no, it’s just idea which come on my mind after reading this article. Don’t you think it’s great to ask blogger to contribute something for earth together? Would you like to participate if the event is available?
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December 15, 2009
4:56 pm
@akira07
yeah definitely i will partcipate. Let’s ask this blogger about this.. What do you say friend?
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December 16, 2009
3:31 am
We should make research first, is there a lot of people interested? If it’s give us positive information, i will surely go to the next step.
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December 31, 2009
12:11 am
@akira07
Yeah many bloggers are interested to save our planet… But we want to make a community regarding that.. This will be effective.. what do you say about this?
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December 22, 2009
11:38 pm
@akira07
i read this article regarding saving our planet with online leaf plugin… You can check this article its seems to be interesting friend…
http://www.serradinho.com/Blog/go-green-with-online-leaf-wordpress-plugin.htm
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December 11, 2009
4:03 pm
ThinkHost is the best in this field, and second in row is HostGator , These two i think are the best elected sites to start with , i hope am right .
And Best Wishes in ur blog , i wait to share in it …
December 11, 2009
5:44 pm
Ph no, what i mean is not the hosting, but the technique. Is windmil save earth more than solar energy, or solar is more good than carbon? Just like that
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 11, 2009
6:49 pm
awesome post sushant….really we need to start thinking about the Mother earth….otherwise the day will not be far when we bloggers will be called HELL BOUND BLOGGERS
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December 11, 2009
8:09 pm
HELL BOUND BLOGGERS? Cool
That’s a blog name ;0
December 12, 2009
5:58 am
We as a blogger, don’t want to be called like that. So yes, let’s contribute something. And when people asking “what blogger do?”, we already prepared with a bunch of answer which can make proud.
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 12, 2009
6:03 am
Blogger can also contribute a real things. We know there is many blogger offline club, right? How about if there is “go green blogger day” event? And in that day, there is offline meeting special for blogger to talk about go green. And also, after meeting, blogger can do something together such :
- Plant 100 trees
- All blogger walking day, no car/motor in that day
- Make “go green” mini festival
- Etc..
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 12, 2009
7:09 pm
thats a good idea. For anything there should be a first one to start.Once its initiated others will follow that.
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December 13, 2009
4:00 pm
The one who start it should be people who has good reputation, so their can persuate people easily. I think John chow and Shoemoney is an example. I hope their are interested.
Note : Sorry if this comment comes 2 times, internet problem
akira07´s last blog ..Make or Break – Website Review
December 12, 2009
12:25 pm
Great, I didn’t know the thing about the HostGator. Anyway, blogging itself can help protect earth. I mean, as a blogger, you can write ways how to protect our environment and all. I’m pretty sure that if readers will get reminded with fancy posts, then at least 3% of your readers will apply the steps. Blogging is one influencial media.
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December 13, 2009
4:03 pm
That’s the simplest thing we can do as blogger. But writing article about go green is mean we’re should practicing it first. So, before writing, practice”go green” first.
And because of it, i wanna ask, Typhoon, is you already do “go green” habbit?
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December 13, 2009
6:54 pm
Ya I love to be as eco-friendly as possible. I like gardening very much, so I use to take care of my plants from time to time. Almost 5-6 months back I planted a Neem Tree in the soil by taking out from the pot as it didn’t grew much into it and also it was going to dry up, so I went on one Sunday and it took me almost 2-3 hrs for taking that plant out from that pot(as the roots were so tights in pot soil). But I am feeling it nice because soon it will grow up big and I could breathe some Fresh Air.
December 15, 2009
4:45 am
No, what i mean is “go green” activity which related to blog.
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January 13, 2010
7:00 am
We should really take serious of this matter because we should take care of our environment
January 17, 2010
8:12 pm
excellent post you described the total requirement and control the leading bad boom which treat our planet according to me this problem will be rectify when each and every one of us take the responsibility to control the carbon emission. so we just think about the consequence and the life of forthcoming generation.
January 31, 2010
9:31 pm
actually…we a bloggers. we have influence on community. so direct people in right way..we must take care of our planet. go green!
February 3, 2010
7:58 am
Also laptops use on average about 1/3 the energy that desktops use – and yes, Hostgator is great I have been using them for years, I did not know some of there grid was powered by wind mills though, good stuff to know
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