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@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ The first step for reducing your digital carbon footprint is finding out where y
When you pay attention to the energy sources of your digital services, you see that some of the service providers claim they are *green* because they do carbon offset. Then we need to ask, can carbon offset be an answer for keeping the temperature down? When you pay attention to the energy sources of your digital services, you see that some of the service providers claim they are *green* because they do carbon offset. Then we need to ask, can carbon offset be an answer for keeping the temperature down?
The short answer is no. Imagine, when a glass is full, not adding any drop to it would be the best approach if we do not want to overflow the glass. What we need right now is *zero* carbon emission from the energy source (meaning produced by 100% renewable sources such as water or solar power) and not carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting, roughly translates into using whatever energy source available (say fossil fuel or nuclear) and paying money for funding projects for reducing the CO2 that is already added into the air. Carbon offsetting is obviously better than not offsetting, but not emitting CO2 from the energy source is ultimately better than CO2 offsetting. The short answer is no. Imagine, when a glass is full, not adding any drop to it would be the best approach if we do not want to overflow the glass. What we need right now is *zero* carbon emission from the energy source (meaning produced by 100% renewable sources such as water or solar power) and not carbon offsetting. Carbon offsetting, roughly translates into using whatever energy source available (say fossil fuel or nuclear) and paying money for funding projects for reducing the CO2 that is already added into the air. Carbon offsetting is obviously better than not offsetting, but not emitting CO2 from the energy source is ultimately better than CO2 offsetting.
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## Use small and renewable digital services ## Use small and renewable digital services
There are two ways to reduce the carbon footprint from our digital data. One is finding [the ones who are running by zero carbon already,](https://github.com/vrde/notes/tree/master/zero-carbon) and supporting them by using those instead of others. This means your digital life will be only enabled by clean energy, and you will have zero carbon emission in terms of energy used for running your services. By supporting zero carbon standard you encourage the new service providers coming into the market to start clean with renewable energy. There are two ways to reduce the carbon footprint from our digital data. One is finding [the ones who are running by zero carbon already,](https://github.com/vrde/notes/tree/master/zero-carbon) and supporting them by using those instead of others. This means your digital life will be only enabled by clean energy, and you will have zero carbon emission in terms of energy used for running your services. By supporting zero carbon standard you encourage the new service providers coming into the market to start clean with renewable energy.