As part of our ongoing commitment to the plant and our customers, we publish a monthly report updating our readers on our sustainability progress. For January, we planted 5,744 trees and funded two new Gold Standard projects in Brazil.
Nearly 5,700 trees planted for our customers
For each web hosting, Managed WordPress, and VPS package our customers hold, we plant trees through Eden Reforestation Projects. This month, we planted 5,692 trees in three locations across the world.
In Haiti, they plant fruit trees to help build up food security and the local economy, as well as rebuilding mangrove forests along the coastline. In Indonesia, they plant mangroves on Biak island to rebuild shoreline forests damaged by clear-cutting and storms. And in Nepal, they are creating a buffer zone around the Chitwan National Park to provide further protection for wildlife as well as planting trees in both the mountains and grasslands to help reduce erosion.
Over 50 trees planted for our employees
We also offset our employees’ carbon footprints every month by funding projects through Ecologi.
For January, across Africa, Ecologi planted 14 mangroves in Madagascar, 10 trees in Kenya, eight trees in Ethiopia, six trees across Irregele Milato and Mussuquelane in Mozambique, five forest garden trees in Tanzania, three trees in Uganda, two fruit trees in Morocco, and one tree in Senegal. They also planted one tree in Bolivia as part of their Andean forest protection project and a birch tree in Scotland. We also received a mangrove tree in Madagascar to offset our website thanks to Tree-Nation.
Conserving Amazonian rainforest in western Brazil
Ecologi also funds Gold Standard projects for us. This month, they’re helping to support rainforest conservation in the state of Acre in Brazil. The state hopes to reduce the encroachment of farmland onto rainforest areas, by training local farmers, supporting local communities, and funding forest guards.
Generating electricity through methane in southeast Brazil
Ecologi is also helping to fund the Macaúbas Landfill Gas project in the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The project will collect methane gas from the Macaúbas landfill instead of letting it be released into the atmosphere, and use it to power turbines that will generate electricity for the area. Along with providing jobs in the area, it will also down on fossil fuels being used to power the region.
Through our tree planting and project funding, we have reduced our carbon footprint by another 230 tonnes, making it over 7,400 tonnes since we started. This is the equivalent of over 9,400 tonnes of rubbish being recycled instead of going to landfill, over 13,600 metric tonnes of coal not being burned, over 11,580,000 litres of petrol not being used, and over 22.20 kilometres squared of sea ice being saved.
We’ll keep you updated every month with our latest statistics on our blog and on our Green Credentials page. We hope you’re happy to see the work we’ve done.
