To coincide with the launch of Go Green Week (February 8-12), The Orbital is proud to announce it is hosted by the world’s first globally green web-hosting company.
1&1 Internet Ltd, the world’s largest web host by known servers, announced that they are committed to the green movement worldwide. Since December 2007, 1&1 has supplied all its European data centres with electrical power from renewable resources like wind, water or solar-powered energy. In 2008, its data centre in Lenexa, Kansas, also became fully green-certified, with all of 1&1’s data servers meeting strict EPA energy-efficient standards.
Paperless billing has been incorporated into all accounts at 1&1, who currently hold over 9 million customer contracts and manage over 10 million domain names.
With all of its worldwide data centres powered by green energy, 1&1 further pledged to offset any of its carbon emissions. Over 30,00 tonnes of CO2 per year will be offset by the company, who also participate in recycling at all of their office locations.
A recent study released by 1&1 found that half of British shoppers now look for ‘green’ credentials when choosing online retailers. The survey of 1500 consumers found that 59 per cent of consumers are more likely to buy if a retailer uses eco-friendly practices such as recycling and using renewable energy. The data also revealed that 1 in 4 consumers now expect retailers to use eco-friendly services across their operation as well as recycling and reducing physical waste. The use of renewable electricity to power their website is viewed as important as using less polluting vehicles. 37 per cent of Britons now expect online shops to reduce their environmental impact to the same degree as high-street stores.
The Students’ Union is committed to environmentally sound practices not only in their own operations, but also in lobbying for more green initiatives at College and beyond. A full calendar of events for Go Green Week is available here.
I LOVE this – and so should everyone else!
I maybe in the silent majority here, but I do not care about green policy, especially when one considers all the things that need to be a priority at the SU. Although I realise very well that this whole green hoo haa does make our university look just a little better in the league tables at the same time other factors drag it down, prominently the overwhelming majority of private school student that this uni takes up. Don’t get me wrong I am not opening a can of worms here I am actually all for meritocracy and good on ROHO for taking on the best people rather than people for quotas. I am going off track here, I just genuinely think that with all the problems and student dissatisfaction going on here, the SU should prioritise its efforts into solving these problems than hypothetical issues which is left for a year would not disappear and would still be as relevant. Maybe then the student body would actually be interested in them.
you do know that it’s the college who decides on who gets into the university and not the SU? Also you don’t really specify any problems, just hypothetical meanderings of a mind who, with such anti-green sentiments, would probably club a seal to death for a fur coat.
If you want some problems which are related to the SU, here are some concrete ones. SU nights are dull and unimaginative, you have to be obliterated on drink to even start having fun. SU itself if rife with infighting which doesn’t achieve anything. SU elections are a massive popularity contest. Nothing has changed at all in the past three years, in fact it has probably got worst since my first year.
As for suggesting that anti-green opinions, and I would like to stress opinion here, are equal to killing innocent animals, do you not think that is a little extreme? In a society that is so obsessed with the freedom of speech and opinion I think mine has every right to exists and be voiced. Without being irrationally prosecuted.
I’d like to agree with “Anon” on the sentiment that using comparitives involving “clubbing a seal to death for a fur coat” is a little unnecessary. Ultimately, a huge amount of any “Green” policies implemented anywhere is for P.R purposes. You only need to look at the sheer amount of “Green” taxes brought in by our Government to coincide with supermarkets charging for carrier bags, etc to see that a lot of it is simply jumping on a bandwagon. Because of this, I for one pay little attention to senseless shouting about the environment by organisations that frankly have little effect on the safety of our world. Get China and some Third World countries to lower their pollution levels, and maybe I’ll stand up and listen, until then, I’ll continue to metaphorically club all the seals I wish.