Green Collar Solutions will soon be offering our first fully online CEU workshop in conjunction with the International Carbon Bank & Exchange and the UF TREEO Center. The workshop will offer an eco-friendly, instructionally sound alternative to the current live workshop.

In preparing for this, we have been looking into a more robust web hosting platform. Naturally, we are investigating green hosting options.

There are a number of new hosting providers cropping up. They seem to fall into 2 categories:

1. Those that actually use or produce their own renewable energy
   TapRoot Hosting
   AISO.net
   WebCTel
2. Those that purchase Renewable Energy Certificates and claim environmentally friendly practices
   HostGator
   A2 Hosting

It's a tricky decision, involving a lot of interrelated variables. At this point it looks like the 2nd set of options provides a much more scalable and reliable platform. Most of the providers in the first group only offer shared hosting and don't appear to have much professional cache.