Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
Wonder how much your lifestyle is affecting the planet? Calculate your carbon footprint to see how you compare and what you can do to cut back.
Carbon Footprint
Using data from both the UK and the US, this carbon calculator accounts for choices you make at home, when you travel, and for your lifestyle.
www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx
The Nature Conservancy
This calculator factors in energy used in your home, to travel, by food production, as well as energy saved by recycling. You can calculate for yourself as an individual or as an entire household.
www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator
An Inconvenient Truth
You've seen the movie, now spend less than 5 minutes (really!) to estimate your impact on the environment. One of the quickest calculators on the web.
www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/
Safe Climate
While this seems to be a more accurate carbon footprint calculator, it seems to be a little less user friendly. Because their measurements are based on actual data rather than estimates, you will need to have your energy bill in front of you.
www.safeclimate.net
EPA Personal Emission Calculator
Produced by the Environmental Protection Agency, this carbon footprint calculator makes calculations as you go so that you can see the impact of each choice you make. It also has helpful references about average carbon emissions for each category so that you can make quick comparisons. Just when you thought it couldn't get any better, it also calculates how many tons of carbon emissions you can save by recycling and making other eco-freindly choices.
www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html
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