Progressive Wednesday

E-mail with a capital “Environment.”

July 14th, 2007 by Matt

We’ve previously covered ways to email more progressively (and you can check those out by clicking here). But we’ve recently stumbled on yet another way, and this one helps you and our shared environment.

I’m willing to wager, dollars to DiCamillo donuts, that you already know about most of the free webmail services out in Internet-land: AOL, MSN Hotmail, Yahoo!, Gmail, etc., etc., etc. So here’s another freebie: Community Mail Center. Here’s what makes this sucker different: the technology used to maintain this email account is powered exclusively by renewable energy.

The gray matter behind this new tool belongs to Think Host, a web-hosting provider powered, you guessed it, by wind and solar power. And why are they offering up free email? I’ll let their digital words do the talkin’:

Because we are very cool people, whom, like you, aren’t real happy with the current state of the world. Instead of just complaining about our woes and drowning our sorrows in wheatgrass juice, we try and instigate positive change with projects like Community Mail — it’s one of the few free earth-friendly email services around.

So for a whole mess of nothing but clicking your mouse, you get an environmentally friendly email account run by a progressive, privately-owned company. You get 100MB of storage. You get to choose from four different domains. And this sucker has all the perks of the aforementioned big four companies: an address book, a spell checker, spam filters, external POP3 accounts, and a message search engine, amongst a whole bunch o’ other stuff.

If you’re like us, you like to know more about something on the web (it’s world wide, don’t forget) before you sign on the binary line, so here’s the 411 and FAQ about Community Mail. Even if you don’t sign up for an account, don’t forget that knowledge of progressivism is, in itself, a kind of progressivism.