Sustainable Web Hosting with Clean Wind

Our goal: To reduce the environmental impact of web hosting through the use of new, renewable wind energy sources, without affecting the level of service to our customers.

As a Pacific Northwest web hosting provider, we at Canvas Dreams want to limit our impact on the environment. The major resource we use in the operation of our business is electricity. In addition to our servers and network equipment, power is used by the cooling, security, and fire suppression systems at our data facility.

Canvas Dreams utilizes energy-efficient servers and employs conservational technology where possible. Still, for every Watt of power used by our hosting infrastructure, another Watt is used to cool the heat generated by our systems.

From an energy usage standpoint, web hosting is a costly business, and as such, its impact higher on the environment as compared to other industries. For this reason and many others, Canvas Dreams joined Portland General Electric's Clean Wind energy program.

Renewable Energy from Local Wind Farms

Clean Wind enables us to purchase blocks of renewable wind power generated at wind farms in northeastern Oregon, including the Klondike energy facility and PGE's new Bigalow Canyon wind farm project. The new power is fed onto the grid to offset our consumption of electricity from non-renewable sources. By negating our demand on the power grid from non-renewable sources at a level equivalent to what is used by our business, we are effectively a carbon neutral web host.

Unlike carbon offsets and energy credits, PGE's program enables us to purchase new electricity from local wind sources to directly benefit the Pacific Northwest environment and economy.

As a business member of Clean Wind, we have chosen to offset 100% of our web hosting infrastructure with clean wind power. Not only is it one way for us to give back to Northwest businesses who have supported us, it is also one small step to helping the environment that has given us a home.

Show That Your Web Site is Green!

By hosting with Canvas Dreams, you can tell others that your web site is green! Use any of the image logos below, place them on your site, and link directly to this page. Not only can it help build interest in your site, it can also show that you too support renewable energy initiatives.

Learn More About Renewable Energy

We encourage you to learn more about how you can participate in renewable programs for home and business. Contact your local power utility, or read up on the residential renewable and commercial renewable programs from Portland General Electric.

"Thank you for going green with renewable wind energy-- I purchase the same for my home. Thanks for letting my website go carbon-neutral as well."
- Rich Harris

"We were happy to see your news about green power. That is admirable. We will display the graphic logo on the sites."
- David Nackerud