OK. Well, it wasn’t quite a vacation, but thanks to a lot of hard work by Walter and Jenny, our friends Karin and Debbie, more friends at Glyph, as well as Shola and all the folks on the Internet Explorer team at Microsoft as well as MSFT folks in Germany, France, and Poland, Carbon Grove is now available in multiple languages – French, German, Polish, and (still) English.

I’ll admit it’s been awhile since I’ve been close to the details of localizing software and let’s just say it was bracing. :) That said, we’re through the weeds, and the site is (hopefully) now even more broadly appealing.

Even cooler news is that the #1 question we get now has a great answer. The folks on the Internet Explorer team are now planting real trees for every virtual tree that reaches six weeks of maturity. So now Carbon Grove helps you reduce your carbon footprint with handy reminders, and the folks at Microsoft are pitching in by planting real trees as well. Cool.

Check it out.