Carbon Calculators
From Green Needham
A list of available carbon calculators
- Zerofootprint - Very comprehensive, yet easy to use. Provides both defaults and explanations for the defaults and the items
- Can create an ID and try it out on their general site - Sign-in
- They do customizations for communities, have done some for larger cities
- Allows users to compare to other countries and cities, as well as showing averages for the people using the site
- Incorporates a social network component - setting up affinity groups, teams
- Company is a not-for-profit
- Have contacted them to explore a Needham-specific implementation - See Talk Page
- They have a set of applications for kids and teachers, including a kids calculator
- Greenopolis - Social networking site and carbon calculator
- This site leads with the social networking component, and the carbon calculator is actually hard to find
- Very simplistic calculator - easy to use, but provides limited information
- Much more cluttered site - news snippets, ads, etc.
- Created and underwritten by Waste Management, but intended to be run by the online community
- Cool Climate calculator at UC Berkeley
- Low Impact Living calculator
- World Resources Institute calculator
- Terrapass calculator
- EPA calculator
Carbon Footprint Data Points
- Home Heating
- 1,000 g/oil - 11.2 metric tons
- 1,000 therms of natural gas - 6 tons
- Auto
- 12,000 miles/year @20 mpg average - 3 tons
- Roughly 100 gallons = 1 tons
- Air Travel
