Greenhouse Emission Calculators
The time to act for the environment is now. We can no longer go on pretending that we aren't personally responsible for the improvement of the planet's conditions. One of the first steps to taking action is to evaluate our carbon footprints. The following calculators enable you to assess your consumption, individually as well as for your household, business, and transportation.
Equivalency Calculators - Individual Emissions - Homes & Businesses - Cars & Trucks
Equivalency Calculators
- Climate Change Calculator: With this calculator, users add all of their consumption information, which is then calculated to see how much carbon dioxide they are responsible for. American Forests allows users to offset their carbon footprint by planting trees through the organization.
- CO2 Equivalency Calculator: This is a very simple field that shows the metric tons of carbon used. The calculator then demonstrates equivalency by electricity, gas, passenger vehicles, and more.
- Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator by CarbonFootprint360.com: After inputting your data, you will be able to see how many pounds or tons of carbon dioxide you use. The calculator will further quantify your results by comparing it to how many tree seedlings were needed, acres of forest destroyed, and more.
- Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency offers an equivalency calculator to determine your greenhouse gas output. There are two options: one for those who have raw data to input, and another for those who already know the quantity of emissions.
Individual Emissions
- Carbon Cops: Carbon Emissions Calculator: This calculator is brought to you by ABC's Carbon Cops, an Australian television program. It is designed with the metric system in mind, so you'll need to convert your numbers before using it if you're not already using the metric system.
- Carbon Footprint Calculator: This calculator is offered in a variety of languages and catered to a number of countries. Calculate your carbon footprint in just one area of your life, such as flights or transport, or check every aspect.
- Carbon Footprint Calculator: What's My Carbon Footprint?: This is an excellent calculator provided by The Nature Conservancy that allows you to measure your carbon footprint individually or for your entire household. Categories are sorted by home energy, transportation, food, and recycling/garbage.
- Food Carbon Emissions Calculator: Even your food is attached to a carbon footprint. Here you can check up on each individual food item you consume to see if what you're eating is causing more harm than good.
- Footprint Calculator: This is a fun, interactive calculator that shows your carbon footprint by land area. Though the results are not to be taken lightly, the format is reminiscent of a video game. It's highly recommended for kids learning how to be more eco-conscious.
- The Guardian's Quick Carbon Calculator: While targeted to a U.K. audience, anyone can take advantage of the calculator and compare their average use with the average of countries around the world. The results are broken down according to category, which shows the areas that need to be improved.
Homes & Businesses
- Business Carbon Emissions Calculator: A business owner can visit this site to check out the company's overall carbon emissions. There are data fields for cars, flights, waste, electricity, and fuel.
- Home Energy Saver: This entertaining site leads users through a step-by-step process to calculate your home's carbon usage. It was created by the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Nature & Culture International Carbon Emissions Calculator: Here you can calculate the carbon footprint of your entire household. Along with the total of the carbon emissions, you can see the recommended offset to counteract your usage.
- Office Emissions Calculator: Businesses can determine their eco impact according to employees' commuting, paper, shipping, and more. This nonprofit organization also enables companies to make a donation to offset their emissions.
- Small Business Carbon Footprint Calculator: This carbon footprint calculator for small businesses was designed by the University of California, Berkeley. Choose your metropolis, industry, and employee information to get started.
- Business Carbon Calculator: Brought to you by the Carbon Neutral Company, this easy-to-use calculator helps businesses assess their carbon footprint. The emphasis is on transportation, both while working and during employees' commute.
Cars & Trucks
- Carbon Emissions Calculator: UPS offers a convenient calculator for fleet managers. Add the number of vehicles/routes, total number of miles driven, and vehicle and fuel type to get results.
- Carbon Footprint Calculator: If you have your car or truck's year, make, model, and mileage-per-year information, you can take advantage of this carbon footprint calculator. You can also input your air travel and home usage data to see the carbon emissions.
- CO2 emissions calculator: While simple, this cartoon calculator will help you figure out what your transportation carbon footprint is. It works for car, train, bus, and airplane users.
- Commute Cost & Carbon Emissions Calculator: How much is your long commute time to work affecting the environment? This calculator by Stanford University will help you find out.
- Fleet Greenhouse Gas Emissions Calculator: This transportation greenhouse gas emissions calculator was designed by the Environmental Defense Fund and NAFA Fleet Management Association. It caters to managers of a number of cars or trucks.