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A Portland, Oregon Web host, Canvas Dreams provides sustainable, no-oversell, ethical hosting services for businesses, non-profits, and personal needs. We are committed to providing the highest quality service and caring customer support to help our clients achieve their goals, while in doing so promote sustainable causes and encourage others to follow in this path.

The Change We Seek

Our mission is to utilize our company's most precious resources - technology and knowledge - and apply them in a way not only to help our business achieve our sustainability goals, but also improve the quality of life for our clients, the environmental impact of their businesses, and bring about greater social and environmental stewardship in the way their businesses are conducted.

By actively promoting and demonstrating our sustainability program, developing newer and more efficient technologies that have a real and positive impact on how our clients operate their businesses, and openly championing environmental responsibility and sustainability in our business community and the larger industry as a whole, we aim to lead others to follow in our path and create measurable, positive change in the world.

Why we became a B Corporation

Canvas Dreams chose to become a B Corporation for a simple reason: It separates the walkers from the talkers. With greenwashing and misleading tactics running rampant in our industry, the external certification and responsible, legal framework reinforced by becoming a B Corporation were components we immediately supported. As a B Corporation, we can now demonstrate transparency in how we operate and credibility in our convictions, which in our industry are hard to come by.

Canvas Dreams, LLC 921 SW Washington, Suite 719 Portland, OR 97205 www.CanvasDreams.com 800.574.4299 Press Release dated February 12, 2010 Canvas Dreams, LLC, a sustainable Web host based in Portland, Oregon, is pleased to announce it is now a Certif...

Canvas Dreams, LLC 921 SW Washington, Suite 719 Portland, OR 97205 www.CanvasDreams.com 800.574.4299 Press Release dated February 3, 2010 Canvas Dreams, LLC, a sustainable Web host based in Portland, Oregon, has been selected to host the official Web...

This is a public service announcement from Canvas Dreams, LLC. Please pass this on to anyone you know involved in relief and recovery efforts for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. We at Canvas Dreams were shocked by the extent of devastation in Ha...

For the first time ever, Canvas Dreams exhibited at the Green Festival in San Francisco, Nov. 13-15, 2009, part of a Twitter-rich road trip. Canvas Dreams' voyage to San Francisco and back was an overwhelming success. In addition to the wonderful o...

Canvas Dreams, LLC 921 SW Washington, Suite 719 Portland, OR 97205 www.CanvasDreams.com +1 503.914.1118 Press Release dated October 8, 2009 Canvas Dreams, LLC, a sustainable Web host based in Portland, Oregon, has been selected to host the official W...

Since the news broke that Sigg and Laken, manufacturers of metal drinking containers, knowingly sold containers with BPA in their liner, the drinking bottle industry has been scrambling, and a lot of people are upset. At the same time, we have...

It may sound funny, but "organic SEO" is a real term and completely unrelated to the green/organic/sustainable movement. The concept behind "organic SEO" is one which occurs naturally (not through automated or computer driven analyses and procedures...

The following is a primer we posted to the Green America business list-serv in response to a user who had questions about Twitter. Twitter works a bit differently than the other social media services available. It is designed for quick, spontaneous m...

Whenever the phrase "sustainability" is used, more often than not it is said in the context of environmental awareness. Less attention is given to the ways sustainability can be applied exclusively within a business setting, or the different ways it ...

Since becoming an accredited member of Green America in 2008, Canvas Dreams has worked hard to educate our customers and business associates about the importance of adopting sustainable business practices. Over the past several months, Canvas...

Canvas Dreams is overly honest about the realities of sustainable web hosting. That is why you will not find any mention of "carbon neutral hosting" or "100% green hosting" anywhere on our site. We are a "sustainable host" -- one that works to balanc...

A few years back, GoDaddy started pushing multi-year domain registrations, claiming it would improve the domain's visibility on search engines. The basis for this was an article published that domains used by spammers or fraudsters tend to be registe...

Earlier tonight, we read of a company's poor results with its SEO efforts. They proposed dropping SEO altogether and instead starting up a link exchange network. There are many facets to this issue, and many potential reasons why the SEO didn't work ...

If you sell products or services online, one way to prevent fraudulent orders is to implement anti-fraud detection into your shopping cart or web site. There are several subscription-based services out there and many are designed to integrate into ex...

We recently had the opportunity to speak with Brent Young at E-Tech Recycling, an e-waste recycling service that has a local presence in Beaverton, Oregon. It was an eye-opener to speak with him point-blank about his industry, and the realities of wh...

Canvas Dreams offsets 100% of its electrical use by purchasing new, renewable wind energy from PGE, the local power utility. When we joined PGE's Clean Wind program last year, we did so because it was the closest we could get to having a wind farm di...

The online world is one that is being redefined every day. When a contract is signed by two parties online, what is or is not considered legally binding? Is an email enough to signify consent? On which year's legal basis would you judge an email to b...

The following is a post from an online forum in which a member asked questions about "green" companies, and whether buying "green tickets" constituted anything more than a marketing gimmick. We gave it some thought and posted the following reply. &nb...

Read that title again. Network Solutions preregisters searched domains. If you visit NetworkSolutions.com to search for and find an available domain, Network Solutions will pre-register it, on your behalf, for a full year -- and then force you to pay...

We recently saw this question posted to a web hosting forum: "What hosting companies we should avoid?" The user is new to the industry and was trying to work up a basic list of the types of companies that you would -- and would not -- w...

A Northwest focus. Canvas Dreams is locally-owned and operated by Oregonians. Ours is a commitment to complete customer satisfaction, and that begins with providing you the real-world hosting services you need. We understand how business is done in O...

Last week, the Associated Press reported that Comcast Corp. is interfering with certain types of data transfers on their network. In an article entitled "Comcast blocks some Internet traffic", Peter Svensson reported Friday the AP had co...

In today's global economy, more companies than ever before are choosing to have a web site. While some companies have IT and design staff to assist in this task, many smaller companies defer the job to an outside design company or independent webmast...

We would have preferred to entitle this blog, "Choosing a reliable source for uptime statistics, and learning why you should avoid free monitoring services", but that would have taken up too much space. The purpose of this article is to discuss how w...

Canvas Dreams, LLC is pleased to announce the launch of Oregon Translation. For the past ten years, Canvas Dreams, the founders of OregonTranslation.com, have provided the highest quality of translation services, in more than 30 languages, to clients...

Lately, you may have noticed a large increase in the amount of spam hitting your inbox. In the past six weeks, the online world has seen a sharp rise in the rate of spam. Many corporate systems administrators have watched spam increase by double acro...

If you are a Web site owner, someone probably notified you in the past that your domain was about to expire, and they could help you renew it immediately. Even though we are licensed reseller of registrar services, even we have received these notices...

"Copyrighting your web content" sounds like a contradiction. The Internet was founded to facilitate the free exchange of information across the globe. And yet, with so many online users and companies paying attention to your information, there has ne...

If you're in the market for Web hosting, there are four priorities for you to consider, in this order, about the service you will be provisioning: The quality of customer service The track record of the service provider The performance and reliabili...

By now, you may have received an email notice from various Internet organizations -- or not -- alerting you to something called "network neutrality", and how changing laws governing the Internet could affect your ability to access online content. &n...

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