Additional Resources

Below you will find calculators and articles/blogs related to climate change and carbon offsetting.


Calculators

American Forests - Climate Change Calculator helps you calculate your greenhouse gas emissions and tells you how many trees you should plant to make it up.

Atmosfair's emissions calculator calculates how much your flight contributes to global warming as well as how much it costs to save emissions elsewhere that have a comparable warming effect.

Best Foot Forward Limited designs and develops tools to measure and communicate environmental impact and sustainability. They provide an ecological footprint calculator you can use to determine what your environmental impact is.

Big Frog Mountain is an alternative energy equipment supplier. Big Frog provides calculators for consumers to figure out their energy needs and what configuration they need in a solar power system.

CarbonCounter.org provides a test you can use to find out how much carbon dioxide your daily life emits.

Carbonfund.org provides a carbon offsetting service to reduce climate change impact. Their calculator is used to determine personal or business greenhouse gas emissions.

The CarbonNeutral Company - Carbon Calculator will tell you how much carbon you are responsible for emitting to the atmosphere.

For concerned Canadians: The Climate Change Calculator developed at the Sustainable Development Research Initiative at the University of British Columbia is an interactive software tool designed to raise awareness about climate change.

Redefining Progress and Earth Day International - Ecological Footprint Quiz tells you how much productive land and water you need to support your lifestyle. The results are given in terms of what amount of the Earth's biocapacity is needed to support one's consumption for a year.

Personal Greenhouse Gas Calculator - The EPA has developed a calculator to give you an estimate of your household's greenhouse gas emissions. It includes a section where you can explore actions you can take to lower your emissions while reducing your energy and waste disposal costs.

Exodus is an adventure tourism company that insists on low impact tourism, especially in the developing world and look to bring benefit to local communities with their holidays. Exodus' website also offers a carbon balancing calculator for those travelers who are keeping tabs and want to offset their carbon emissions.

Government of Canada - The Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Calculator Do you know how many GHG emissions you produce each year through your personal, household, driving and living habits? This calculator, developed by the Government of Canada will help you find out and learn how to reduce them.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative provides a number of useful calculation tools to determine greenhouse gas emissions from a variety of activities. The GHG Protocol aims at harmonizing GHG accounting and reporting standards internationally to ensure that different trading schemes and other climate related initiatives adopt consistent approaches to GHG accounting.

GreenMyFlight.com provides a service to travelers, corporations and travel service provides to address climate change. Their calculator is used to judge greenhouse gas emissions from plane travel.

Leonardo Academy Inc. - Cleaner and Greener provides two calculators, one to calculate how much pollution is caused by the energy used in your home or business and a second to help you plan how to reduce this or to find out how well your conservation efforts have worked.

The Office Footprint Calculator measures the ecological impact of your workplace and makes easy, cost-effective suggestions for improvement.

Offsetters provide a flight calculator that you can use to determine what amount of greenhouse gas is released into the atmosphere when you fly.

With the SafeClimate Carbon Footprint Calculator, developed by the World Resources Institute, you can determine monthly carbon dioxide emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane.

These Transport Impact Calculators can be used to calculate your pollutant emissions from your journeys, calculate the energy you use on your journeys (in calories), and calculate the full annual cost of car ownership.

TravelMatters' emissions calculator will tell you how much greenhouse gas you generate as a result of your daily transportation activity.

The Water Footprint of an individual, business or nation is defined as the total volume of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual, business or nation. Water Footprint provides a calculator to aid in determining this number for you, whether you are an individual or represent a business.