It’s been a little while since we’ve written any posts in our green office category. Last year, you might recall we offset the environmental impact of FreshBooks with the help of the folks at Zerofootprint; we’ll be doing it again shortly for 2007.

Zerofootprint calculates your “carbon footprint” on the environment, and then allows you to purchase carbon credits to offset your emissions. The funds from these credits are used to plant trees in British Columbia.

The news today is that Zerofootprint has been selected as a finalist over at the Crunches web awards, in the category of the website “most likely to make the world a better place.”

The other worthy finalists are:

• the Causes application for Facebook, which allows you to collect charitable donations via your profile page;
• DonorsChoose, a website where teachers pitch their funding needs and donors decide which projects they’d like to support;
• Kiva, helping disadvantaged entrepreneurs in developing countries raise startup funds for their businesses; and
• One Laptop per Child, who aim to blanket the third world with cheap, rugged, Internet-connected machines.

You can vote for Zerofootprint, or any of the other finalists, at the website for the Crunchies.

Congratulations to our friends at Zerofootprint, a fine Toronto-based company doing great things.

The beginning of the year is a time for two things: lists and resolutions.

While it isn’t usually like us to follow what everyone else is doing, we figured we would get in on the fun this time, and share a list for your reading pleasure.

So without any more typing on my part, I offer you…

The top ten reasons to switch to FreshBooks!

10. Because your invoices should look as professional as the rest of your work.
9. Get paid faster, so you can do fun stuff — like paying taxes!
8. Give yourself more “you” time… or even better, more “client” time.
7. No more licking envelopes… they are dangerous!
6. FreshBooks time tracking keeps more accurate time then Flava Flav.
5. Just like those classy “adult” hotlines, we always pick up our phone. So call and say hi!
4. 250,000+ users can’t be wrong… and if loving FreshBooks is wrong, I don’t want to be right!
3. After sending your first invoice you can officially call yourself a FreshBooker. (Okay, so we could probably come up with a better word.)
2. If you have less than three clients the service is absolutely free… and larger accounts can take advantage of our 30-day money-back guarantee.

(Insert drum roll sound here)

1. Independent studies have shown that FreshBooks users are 47% more attractive then people who use Word and Excel to invoice their clients.

Happy New Year, everyone!