How Green is the Internet?

Do you often remark that there are a lot of natural disasters occurring lately? Does the weather seem to be changing each year? Is it a long hot summer? Maybe its a short cold dry winter. In 2007 Australia continued to suffer from it's worst drought and raging wildfires, yet one of it's capital cities experienced it's first white Christmas. Large chunks of ice from Antartica have been floating further north than normal. Hurricanes have been hitting the coast of the America's with more intensity and more often. Torrential floods are causing towns to disappear down rivers all over the planet.

If you have noticed any of these phenomena each time you turn on your television, then welcome to Global Warming.

So what has the environment got to do with being an X Factor in the world wide web?

We begin this by reducing the amount of paper we consume. Unbelievably paper production has increased, even though everything is available at our finger tips, and with a wide variety of recordable media. Why is this? The most common reason seems to be government red tape! When governments are trying to get us to reduce our plight on natural resources, many countries still require businesses and individuals to keep paper trails for up to 7 years. But soon this will change. Portable hard drives, thumb drives, CD's, DVD's, etc., are now the more preferred method of storing records.

Which means getting your business e-capable. And the first step to this is by registering a domain, obtaining web hosting, getting yourself a website and email address set up. Website's will reduce the need for catalogues, bulky brochures and mountains of junk mail.

This is where we come into it. We advise you on the best way to achieve your Internet presence while adhering to W3C web standards, accessibility laws, usabilty & compatability requirements, while not ignoring the world of the mobile web. Badly coded websites waste resources too! We'll ensure that your website is using the least resources necessary on various types of electronic media. Every little bit counts.

People will be able to work from home. Banking and bill paying can be done from home and conducting business online will minimize waste, pollution and energy consumption. Cities can become decentralized meaning that people will not need to travel as far and pollution from cars will be reduced. The need for formal office space will diminish. Already there has been a high increase in the amount of home based businesses.

Business Air travel continues to increase, though by now it should be decreases giving way to freight flights for purchases made online. Online communications and ecommerce minimize the pollution to the environment caused by unnecessary travel.