GET PLANTING PEOPLE, as studies show that in order to offset the 1,126,156 tonnes of preventable greenhouse gasses produced by three million UK web servers a year, we need to plant 154,268 trees.

The wastage is estimated to be the same as an ex-INQUIRER editor flying to India and back again a million times to try and set up a rival web site.

That is not just an awful lot of trees - the cost of planting that amount of greenery is estimated to be from £1,812,649.00.

If you're looking for a slightly cheaper and easier option you could donate towards the ‘Clean Energy Fund’, although that would set you back £844,612.50 to offset the 112,615 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

European hosting company Amenworld.com believes it has the answer to our eco-prayers with its range of "eco" servers.

Apparently, each server saves the exact amount wasted by "other" servers – 632kg of CO2 per year.

The subscription price tag on the ECO 1000 server is £39 per month - £46 including VAT.

Here's what you get for that

ECO 1000
• CPU: AMD Athlon x2 3400, 2 x 1.8 GHz
• RAM memory: 1GB
• Hard Disk: 80GB
• Monthly traffic: 1TB
• Windows operating system: Windows Server 2003
• Linux operating systems: Fedora Core 7, Ubuntu 6, Debian 4
• Control Panel: Plesk 8.2
• Domains: 10
• Fixed IP addresses: 1

Get calculating its carbon footprint.

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