Welcome to GreenNet

GreenNet is the ethical ISP that has been connecting people and groups who work for peace, the environment, gender equality and human rights since 1986.

2008 Christmas Newsletter

GreenNet has had its collective hands very full as we’ve hurtled through 2008 –
Edited highlights from this year include…

  • launch of the new GreenNet website
  • new deals to beat the credit crunch blues
  • more websites, more features, more content making a difference
  • supporting 100 women’s rights workers get into ICTs in Cape Town
  • low powered computing for everyone – GN’s 8 watt (and very cute) PCs going for a song

If you’d like more information on any of our services or the stories featured in this newsletter, just drop us a line at info@gn.apc.org.

Services

Web projects

GreenNet web projects are all about planning, designing, building and hosting websites that work for you and the issues you’re working on.

GreenNet email

GreenNet members have been depending on our stable and secure email service since we first set up shop in 1986. More than 20 years on, email is still at the heart of the services we provide.

GreenNet broadband

GreenNet’s ethical broadband service (ranked by Ethical Consumer) provides a fully supported ADSL service. Details of our starter packages can be found on this page, or call us for info on SDSL, unlimited & un-metered broadband or organisational packages.

Support

Settings at a glance

Use these settings to configure your dial-up networking, email and FTP software for connecting to GreenNet’s online services.

E2 power consumption breakdown

The Aleutia E2 is one of the lowest power consuming PCs available that can still perform everyday tasks such as email, word processing, web browsing and play full screen video (but not on YouTube or BBC iPlayer – yet). To demonstrate just how much of a saving on energy consumption (and your bill) this little machine has to offer we have done the maths using publicly available information.

A guide to spam

If you’ve received it, you don’t want it, you don’t understand who it’s from or what it’s about, just press Delete. Or, if you want to recognise, report or block some of the offensive, fraudulent or just plain annoying email that occasionally gets through GreenNet’s anti-spam systems, here is a rundown of the main types.

Power failure Friday 14/11/2008 and Saturday 15/11/2008

Friday night the co-location center we host our servers in was hit by a power failure. After the power supply was restored our engineers restored most services through the night and early hours of Saturday morning.

A second power failure hit the co-location center Saturday afternoon. We have managed to restore all services by 6pm Saturday.

We apologise for the inconvenience.

Aleutia E2 low power computer demo video

So you've read about the Aleutia E2 ultra low-power computer but still can't make up your mind? We have a little video demonstrating how easy it is to setup with a solar panel and battery pack, as well as VESA mounting on the back of a monitor for home, office or educational use.

What you say about us

  • Thank you very much for your hard work, specially the amount of time and effort you have put to make yesterday launching possible. We are receiving lots of e-mails congratulating us for the website and we thought it would only be fair to share them with you.

    Maria

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Network news and actions

Stop the war in Gaza

stop the war logoJoin the demonstration against the Israeli bombardment.

Will the Children of the World be Safe Soon?

Gender IT reports from the Internet Governance Forum.

Crushing dissent in Burma

Popular comedian Zarganar faces 45 years in jail for organising aid runs to victims of Cyclone Nargis