AN environmentally-conscious business near Crediton has become one of the first in the South West to become climate positive after introducing a series of measures to reduce its impact on the planet.

Dynamic Servers, which is based at Bow, is now positively improving the environment rather than just being carbon neutral like many other well-known brands.

Entrepreneur Paul Edworthy, who runs Dynamic Servers along with two other eco-friendly businesses - a website development company and a networking club for green-conscious businesses, decided he wanted to reduce the damage he might be doing to Planet Earth.

The company has switched the servers used for website hosting for clients to those that make almost no impact on the environment with reduced renewable energy use and built with more ethically sourced materials.

The firm has also gone entirely paperless and reduced the energy use in its offices, and for every new client they sign up the company plants a tree with the Woodland Trust.

As a result the company is now saving 3.397 tonnes of carbon moving it out of the carbon neutral bracket and into carbon negative. That means they are saving more than they are using.

Paul said: “This is something that I am absolutely passionate about - looking after the planet for the people that come after us.

“I have two young children and I really wanted to be able to look them in the eye when they are older and to tell them that I did my bit to try to save the natural resources of the planet.

“It is a great feeling to know that as a business we can justify what we have done through the results that we have achieved. Our customers love it too - they know when they work with us they are doing their bit for the environment too.

“There are a lot of companies out there that are simply off-setting their carbon and I wanted to show that we are doing this in the best way possible and actually saving more than we use.”