We all know that activities such as commuting to work or lighting our homes contributes a substantial amount to our carbon footprints every year.

What about your website or blog? You may not have considered it, but all websites and blogs have carbon footprints, and they are larger than you might imagine. Think about everything that has to happen when you view a website. Your computer downloads information, which is housed by other computers on the Internet, all of which are using a wide array of networks and servers to transmit the information. The energy use adds up. The average personal blog, for example, creates nearly a ton of CO₂ in a year!

Why choose to make your website CarbonFree^®?

1. Brand Recognition
Distinguish your website or blog as reducing its impact on the environment with the CarbonFree^® logo.

2. Your donation supports third-party validated carbon reduction projects
With Carbonfund.org, your donation goes to fund the same third-party validated projects that our other carbon offset programs fund. We don’t claim that you can offset an entire website by planting a single tree, nor would we expect you to believe that.

3. Custom Calculations
Have a large business site or just a small family blog? No problem. We can calculate a custom website offset that fits any size of site with any amount of traffic.

Get started by visiting www.carbonfund.org/carbonfreewebsite and choose the carbon offset that most closely matches your average monthly pageview count. After your donation is received, we will provide you the appropriate CarbonFree^® logos to use on your site for a year.

Show your visitors your commitment to the environment by making your website CarbonFree^® today!

With the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference set to begin in about a month, we’ll be blogging on developments regarding the conference. Carbonfund.org has been advocating for strong climate legislation by the US to reduce the country’s contribution to global warming. In addition, we have educated and outreached on global warming to our supporters as well as audiences to which we have access. Most recently– we participated in the 350 global day of climate action in Washington, DC. We look forward to continuing our work with other 350 organizers and grassroots organizations. A photo of the day’s Circle of Hope in front of the White House, courtesy of Grist, reminds us all that climate change is a global problem, and our country must be a part of the solution.

Bookmark our blog, or follow our RSS feed, to keep tabs of developments on global warming and the Copenhagen conference. You can also follow us on social media such as our revamped Facebook fans page and our Twitter page.

Visit our blog often for news and information about Copenhagen and other global warming developments! Join in the discussion by submitting your comments to each blog. Let us know what you think about our blog by emailing media@carbonfund.org. Thanks!