Help your business achieve carbon neutrality with a Net-Zero Website
Fairwind Creative is a pioneer of green graphic design, offering sustainable visual brand marketing alternatives for businesses striving to improve their corporate social responsibility.
Does your business care about the environment?
Our Net-Zero Website is the product of careful research and analysis and a deep concern about the continuous environmental decline caused by the IT industry. We’re striving to counter this destruction by offering an eco-friendly solution for businesses who want to be a part of the solution.
Eco-friendly graphic design
Wind-powered web hosting
Carbon-neutral strategies
Nurturing sustainability
Eco-Friendly Graphic Design
Not just a pretty picture!
Fairwind has bridged a gap that exists in many web development companies. Our designers are also coders who possess a deep understanding of how page elements, heading styles, font families, web forms, and filetypes impact user experience (UX) and search engine optimization (SEO). Therefore, there's no miscommunication between graphic designers and web developers.
Taking it a step further, we don't add anything to a web page that isn't first carefully vetted for its usefulness and most efficient energy demands. Every colour, every font style, every button, and every hover effect is designed and executed strategically. We are experienced brand technicians who continually strive to upload your company's particular visual identity throughout every step of the process.
Wind-Powered Web Hosting
Keeping your hosting clean is a breeze!
Every kilowatt hour of power you use, including running your website, has an effect on the rest of the world. The generation of electricity, and its resulting greenhouse gases and carbon emissions, is the single most contributing factor to industrial pollution in the world.
But we can all do our part to help reduce pollution. By putting equivalent clean energy back into the grid, we effectively reduce our carbon footprint and support renewable energy initiatives. By choosing green web hosting, you as a website owner can help minimize the environmental impact of your online presence, actively reduce your carbon emissions, and demonstrate your commitment to sustainability and environmental responsibility.
Carbon-Neutral Strategies
All the right stuff!
Most small businesses don't need an overwhelming number of features when it comes to building a classy, informative website. Here are some of the ways we've engineered our Net-Zero Website to trim-down CO2 emissions by 40–90%:
- No energy-hogging slideshows and background videos
- Minimal number of plugins, cleanly written code, minimal JavaScript, and carefully selected fonts
- Optimized images and restricted file sizes
- Carefully constructed SEO targeting your specific audience to reduce needless energy consumption
- Constantly measured data transfer, and carbon emissions monitoring
- Fairwind's office energy offset by renewable energy
Nurturing Sustainability
Keeping Mother Earth happy!
The earth gives us so much, and giving back is easy. The least we can do as a green technology business is practice carbon-neutral techniques and help replenish what’s been lost. Each year, in addition to our ethical practices in graphic design and web hosting, Fairwind Creative proudly contributes a portion of our earnings, and volunteer time, to worldwide organizations that are making big strides to conserve our planet. Learn more »
Fairwind Creative's operations are offset with green energy credits from Bullfrog Power, which help power schools and Indigenous communities across.
As an added bonus, every Net-Zero Website continuously plants trees! To continually help offset CO2 emissions, five trees are planted for each year as part of your website service.
Website Customization
Everyone loves choice! During the initial setup of your Net-Zero Website, you will choose from one of three templates. You will also be able to specify the official fonts and colours of your brand. Our designers will produce a homepage mockup as well as an inner page mockup, and you can then request changes as needed. No cookie-cutter websites here! We want you to feel proud of your website, not only because of its carbon neutrality, but because of its beauty and clean user experience. Book a consultation with us today for more details about your customization options.
A Simple Pricing Structure
Most products that claim to be energy-efficient come with a higher price tag, but not the Net-Zero Website! Because this website is specifically engineered with fewer bells and whistles than big commercial WordPress themes, there are far fewer costs related to setting it up and maintaining it. Less code, fewer plugins, and a smaller monthly bandwidth demand, to name a few. Fairwind believes in fair pricing. We’re not in this to get rich – we’re in it to help save the planet! Small, growing businesses benefit from the Net-Zero Website in two big ways: they save costs on their website, and they do their part to ensure their website supports their company’s mission of responsible business management.
$795Initial Setup | + | $0–$1,500Extra Options | + | $250/year(+)Hosting/Maintenance |
Annual hosting rate may increase depending on your particular energy requirements—such as the volume of your website traffic, added website features, or extra email accounts. Learn more about Fairwind’s green web hosting.
Rates in Canadian dollars.
Have a Project in Mind?
Looking for quality graphic design, website development, and digital marketing services? If you prefer working one-on-one with trusted professionals passionate about the environment, you’ve come to the right place! We love new opportunities for creativity, so tell us about your project!