GraymatterHost Named In Top Five List At DC Green Fest

Great Barrington, MA (November 17, 2008) – GraymatterHost was selected for EcoScene Magazine’s Top 5 most intriguing products at the DC Green Fest, which was held November 8th & 9th at the Washington DC Convention Center. GraymatterHost was one of more than 320 green businesses at this year’s Green Fest, the nation’s largest green consumer [...]

Green Web Hosting

"Green what?" I knew my questions were usually annoying.

"Web hosting."

"What does that do?"

"It’s hosting," he explains, "It’s where your website lives."

"Huh.  Where it lives."   That took a bit more explaining to work for me.

 

 

 

Internet in the Election Year

The use of the Internet has changed the landscape of the American election process.  Candidates are using free resources like http://ustream.tv and http://youtube.com to get their message out with great success.  Web sites are used collect campaign money and put out calls to action.  Social networking sites have helped reach voters young and old.

These green [...]

No Polar Ice This Summer? Holy Sh**!

I’m sure I’m not the only one to catch their breath at the news.  Fifty percent chance the North Pole will be ice free for a short time this summer.  No ice.  None.

Scientists say it’s a 50-50 bet that the thin Arctic sea ice will completely melt away at the geographic North [...]

Solar Power: From Simple to Sophisticated

My neighbor just put up one of those old fashioned clothes lines.  It seemed a bit of an eye sore when I first saw it there, the metal pole holding up a spiderweb-like array in the middle of her lawn.  "The dryer uses a lot of electricity," she explained.  Her simple use of the sun [...]

Green Data Centers On The Rise

 According to a recent article in Computerworld (see below), high energy costs will force more and more data centers to go green.  When investigating green data centers for our own company, we found many that used renewable energy credits.  After extensive research we found a 100% solar powered data center that creates no pollution what [...]