TreeCentric (www.treecentric.com) launches its environmentally-friendly web-hosting, email, and domain services. You’d be hard-pressed not to hear doom-and-gloom stories about the environment, greenhouse gases and global warming these days. With all the bad news, most of us want to know how we can help. We’ve unplugged our chargers; we’ve replaced our incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient fluorescent ones; we’ve even started taking shorter showers (or we’ve thought about it). But it’s not like we can really hook up our homes and businesses to wind power. Or can we? Well, OK, no we can’t. But we can use the service of TreeCentric, a company that has done the next best thing, purchased Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).
TreeCentric is a progressive, privately-owned U.S.-based company that provides website and webmail hosting services, as well as domain registration. "We help businesses take responsibility and make a difference in the world through everyday business activities, like hosting a website or logging onto e-mail," says Cameron Larson, founder and CEO of TreeCentric. "When customers support TreeCentric by signing up for a service such as webmail, TreeCentric in turn, supports the earth by reducing its footprint on the earth."
Why TreeCentric? TreeCentric offers an intuitive and easy-to-use e-mail solution, with breakthrough technology that allows you to access your e-mail anytime, anywhere. In addition, the system is easily synchronized with Outlook, so when you log onto your webmail, information that you put into Outlook is readily available, wherever you are, on any PC.
"This means that you could be on vacation in Tahiti, log into a computer at in Internet café, and still have access to same e-mail, calendar and contacts that is in your Outlook back at the office," says Larson. "And, if you just made a new friend, add their contact right there at the café, and you’ll see their contact information in your Outlook when you get home."
In addition, the groupware mode allows you to share contacts, tasks, and calendars with coworkers. For instance, the calendar lets you schedule meetings through an electronic invitation, or you can search participating calendars to identify times that work for everyone. And, to view others’ schedules overlaid on your own, just check the box next to their name.
TreeCentric also offers affordable domain registration, which includes, at minimum, a range of site statistics, a one-page website, and easy account management. TreeCentric’s flexible web hosting ranges from a shared server package that includes 100 MB, 2 GB bandwidth, 5 mailboxes, virus protection and spam filters to a dedicated server that is customized exactly for your company’s needs. TreeCentric also offers responsive 24-hour, U.S.-based customer service, so customers always get the help they need, when they need it.
How do RECs work? While we all need electricity to run our businesses, the downside is that these resources pollute our air, land, and water and contribute to global climate change. Thankfully, renewable energy sources such as solar electric and wind can produce electricity without the same negative impact. TreeCentric ensures that the electricity it uses is made from such renewable energy sources and, therefore, doesn’t produce greenhouse gas emissions. To do so, TreeCentric purchases REC certificates from an authorized renewable energy facility that generates electricity.
"For instance, TreeCentric purchases credits from a renewable energy facility like a windmill farm," says Larson. "And this essentially displaces the need for other non-renewable sources – like a coal plant – to provide TreeCentric with power."
TreeCentric is also Green-e certified, ensuring that TreeCentric’s renewable energy meets the nation’s leading independent certification and verification standards.
About TreeCentric
TreeCentric (www.treecentric.com) is a progressive, privately-owned U.S.-based company that provides website and e-mail hosting services, as well as domain registration. As a socially-conscious company, TreeCentric takes responsibility for its environmental mark on the world. By supporting the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions that the company is responsible for producing, TreeCentric is part of the solution to climate change.
This article was last modified on January 8, 2023
This article was first published on July 6, 2007
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