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CO2Stats aims to help website owners understand the electricity usage and related carbon emissions associated with site usage, and then helps site owners manage their carbon footprint. The company calculates the greenhouse gas footprint of visits to your site, based on locations of your visitors and servers, computer types, window and monitor sizes, local fuel mixes, download sizes and times. Every month CO2Stats purchase Green-E certified Renewable Energy Certificates to offset your site's CO2 footprint. Users can inspect your certificates and other environmental statistics by clicking on your CO2Stats badge.
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United States, Massachusetts, Cambridge
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| Mar 17, 2009 | Y Combinator set to fund more startups | Seed-stage investment fund is going to Party like it's 2009 Y Combinator, a seed-stage investment fund, announced this week that it raised $2 million from Sequoia Capital, and angel investors. The fund, which has invested in 40 startups per... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Revealed: How The Times Got Confused About Google and The Tea Kettle | Update: See below for an explanation as to how this happened. Yesterday an article in The Sunday Times (UK) set the web abuzz over new findings that every Google search contributed 7 grams of CO2 to the atmosphere – half the amount produced... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Tempest in a Tea Kettle: CO2Stats Founder Caught in Frenzy Around Environmental Costs of a Google Search | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints (Jan. 14, 2009—Further updated and corrected with comments from the Sunday Times of London and Alex Wissner-Gross—see below) Updated and corrected, see below: I just got off t... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | Analysis: environmental impact of Googling hard to quantify | reader comments with 0 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit UPDATE: Wissner-Gross, the physicist whose work on the energy-efficiency of web browsing formed the basis for the original stor... |
| Jan 11, 2009 | Are We Killing The Planet One Google Search At A Time? | Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Sunday Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) posi... |
| Jan 10, 2009 | Congratulations To the Crunchies Winners; Facebook Takes Top Prize For Second Year | The second annual Crunchies are over, and 900 people are across the street at the after-party toasting the winners. For those of you who didn’t attend or see it live on Ustream, the nominees, winners and runners up for each category are bel... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | SaveThePlanetAndWin: Another Social Network Hoping To Make The World A Little Greener | Save The Planet And Win, a new green social network looking to help users cut back on their carbon deficits, launches today to the public. Beyond traditional social network features like user messaging, Save The Planet And Win offers a few ... |
| Sep 2, 2008 | Greenseng: A Green Search Engine That Actually Conserves Energy | We’ve seen a few sites attempt to help turn the web green, but most of them have been little more than gimmicks. Blackle purports to conserve energy by offering a “black” version of Google, which it says uses less energy than the engine’s s... |
| Aug 19, 2008 | Y Combinator Demo Day: CO2Stats, Posterous and others show their stuff | Incubator Y Combinator just wrapped the first of its two West Coast demo days for its latest batch of startups. As usual, their concepts were all over the place, from ticket sales to retail polls to job listings. The startups gave demos on ... |
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FAQ about CO2Stats
What has the press written about CO2Stats?
Parsers VC has collected 12 articles mentioning CO2Stats, among them “Y Combinator set to fund more startups” (Mar 17, 2009) and “Revealed: How The Times Got Confused About Google and The Tea Kettle” (Jan 12, 2009).
Is CO2Stats still active?
Yes, CO2Stats is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 18, 2021.