{"id":2559,"date":"2015-01-16T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2015-01-16T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T16:28:01","slug":"carbon-footprint-doing-our-bit-for-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/16\/carbon-footprint-doing-our-bit-for-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Footprint &#8211; Doing Our bit for the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a new year and with that comes new years resolutions. For MJT Net Ltd I decided we needed to do more to lessen our impact on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already made some changes:<\/p>\n<p>Our web sites, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/\">mjtnet.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clipmagic.com\/\">clipmagic.com<\/a>, are now hosted in a data center which runs directly on 100% renewable generated electricity.  <\/p>\n<p>Web servers run 24\/7.  So I think switching to green data centers is an important move.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenqloud.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/greenqloud.zendesk.com\/attachments\/token\/rAd0qPJ7oJZEXPHeqUplWR2KI\/?name=gq_badges_05_39.png\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For our office electricity we have recently switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecotricity.co.uk\/\">ecotricity<\/a> who generate all their electricity using renewable sources &#8211; the wind, sun and sea. We&#8217;re also planning to install our own solar panels this year.<\/p>\n<p>Where possible we will source second hand\/reconditioned IT hardware.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not a large company, so these changes may seem minuscule in the grand scheme of things. But it all helps and if everyone did this it will help much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s a new year and with that comes new years resolutions. For MJT Net Ltd I decided we needed to do more to lessen our impact on the environment. We&#8217;ve already made some changes: Our web sites, mjtnet.com and clipmagic.com, are now hosted in a data center which runs directly on 100% renewable generated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mjtnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}