Activities in your everyday life add to the emissions that pollute the atmosphere and contribute to global warming.
You can help stop global warming as well as save valuable tropical rainforests by contributing to our Living Forest program. This is referred to as a "carbon offset" because it reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
Your offsets will save ancient rainforests in the upper Amazon and Andean cloud forests of southern Ecuador. UNESCO declared this region to be one of the highest priority regions in the world for conservation.
Average gas mileage (miles per gallon): (All your cars averaged)
Air Travel
Yearly air miles traveled: (Note: NYC to LA round trip is 5,000 miles)
Home Energy
Average monthly
electric bill: (If you don't know, enter average $100)
Average monthly
natural gas bill: (If you don't know, enter average $105)
For heating oil users only: enter average monthly
fuel oil bill:
Waste (Based on number of people less savings from recycling)
Do you recycle paper?
YesNo
Do you recycle aluminum, glass, plastic?
YesNo
Other (Based on number of people)
This is your share of the
carbon footprint of USA society.
It takes into account the things
you buy, the food you eat,
entertainment, schools, roads, etc.
I'm frugal or a student I'm an average consumer I'm a big spender
Click on OFFSET NOW! button above
to offset your climate impact with Living Forest Carbon Offsets
How does this Calculator work?
This calculator gives a rough estimate of your total carbon emissions based closely on the data and calculation methods of the EPA (www.epa.gov) as of January 2008. However, we consider these additional factors not included in the EPA methods: 1) We add the contributions of air travel by using the average medium-flight figure of .45 lbs of CO2 per air mile from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (In reality this depends on the length of flight and type of aircraft.) 2) We add the "Other" category to include the carbon footprint of US society (reported by the United Nations to be 20.4 metric tons of CO2 per capita for USA in 2004. See http://unstats.un.org.) We customize this option for students (50% less) and for those who are big spenders (50% more). Most carbon calculators available on the web completely ignore the carbon footprint of US society and therefore underestimate personal carbon emissions. 3) We show your emissions in metric tons, the international units for carbon dioxide emission. One metric ton is 2,204 pounds.
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