The Carbon Footprint Calculator calculator

There was a really interesting survey published in The Guardian a few days ago about trust and green issues. It’s a wake-up call to anyone who lives in a green ghetto and thinks that everybody gets what the problems are. There’s a lot of distrust about business and the claims it makes, and many don’t know where to turn for good info. A third of consumers are confused and don’t know what they can do.

The future is going to be about good information - and how it can be made useful. That’s why there are so many carbon footprint calculators around now.

I first did my own carbon audit last year and was a little taken aback by what I found - but it made me reassess my lifestyle. And I mentioned DEFRA’s new one the other day.

There are now dozens to try:

Carbonfootprint.com

Carbon Calculator

Best Foot Forward

Resurgence

The Carbon Neutral Company

My Carbon Footprint

C Level

Style Will Save Us

FoodCarbon

BP’s calculator

Zerofootprint

Safeclimate

Some are specific to certain areas of our lives - like our food, or our car use. All have their own agendas - their own algorithms and yard sticks. Are they creating a new fog of facts? Are they reliable?

I’ve an idea. Over the next few weeks I’m going to try them out, one at a time. I’ll let you know how easy they are to use for an average user like me. I may even persuade a couple of friends to help me.

If any of you have any experience of using them, or any views on which ones work best for you, or which are the most reliable, please pass them on.

Photo of the original Texas Instruments Little Professor Hand-Held Calculator courtesy of Jason Toal

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This entry was written by Nigel and posted on Monday, July 2nd, 2007 at 10:10 am and filed under Carbon footprint calculators, Saving energy, Co2 emissions, Carbon footprints. Bookmark the permalink. You can follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment, or trackback from your own site.

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