The easy-to-use tool helps residential customers determine the amount of greenhouse gas emissions produced by their daily activities, including energy and water use, waste, modes of transportation and types of food consumed.
A convenient feature for residential customers is the ability to automatically download their electricity, water, wastewater and solid waste information into the application by simply entering their utility bill account number. Along with their carbon footprint score, users can learn practical ways to reduce their emissions throughout the year and participate in a social networking forum, offering open communication about climate change between concerned citizens.
Click here to determine your carbon footprint and how to reduce it.
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2 Response to City Says Calculate Your Carbon Footprint
"Carbon footprints" are not creating global warming. It's a myth!
Mankind's contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is negligible.
Total atmospheric CO2 is 40,000 giatons with mankind's contribution around 8 gigatons or .02 of 1% of total atmospheric CO2. In other words, Nature is responsible for 99.98% of atmospheric CO2.
CO2 makes up a very small amount of our atmosphere - so much so that it is a scarce gas, yet all life on this planet requires the presence of CO2 to live.
At 380 ppm CO2 is .038 of 1% of the atmosphere. In other words the rest of the atmosphere is 99.962% other gases - mainly nitrogen and oxygen.
Atmospheric increases of CO2 always come after warming and have never come before. The lag of rising CO2 behind warming is as much as 800 years. This is borne out in over 400,000 years of geologic history with ice core studies.
The largest greenhouse gas is that of water vapor - clouds.
Forget about carbon footprints. It's bad science.
And why has carbon been attacked? We (and all life on planet earth) are made of carbon. Everything around you either is carbon based or had carbon used in its manufacture.
Patrick,
Thanks for the comment. However, I'd argue that any way a person can reduce their output of pollutants and reduce waste of non-renewable resources like petroleum is beneficial to everyone, both environmentally and financially. Whether or not you believe that carbon dioxide emissions are bad, or that such emissions contribute to global warming (or indeed, whether or not you believe in global warming at all), how can lessening pollutants be a bad thing?
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