Not only is the world around us changing, but the web is changing too and we want to make this change accessible to all those who use the Internet to do business. Internet usage worldwide is set to increase five fold by the year 2015(*), which means 5x the energy consumption and 5x the amount of carbon in the air in just under a decade! Much of this growth will be online businesses and merchants, who will need a solution to keep up with demand as well as be Greener for the 21st Century.

We can make a difference today by changing the way our virtual stores consume energy and how/where they get that energy from. Our solution to creating a clean platform for virtual stores is using a hosting company like iMountain.com, who uses Photovoltaic Arrays (Actual arrays can be seen below) to power the computers our stores are hosted on. In this way, our professional online stores are as clean running as possible.

The second way we try to make a difference is through donations to charities that will give back to the planet through conservation, protection, education or reforestation. Our model for sustainable green online stores is as follows: