You can do this for yourself, your home, or your business.
Use any of these (or others) to calculate your Carbon Footprint:
Carbon Fund: http://www.carbonfund.org/Calculators/
Safe Climate: http://www.safeclimate.net/calculator/
Terrapass: http://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator/
Or do a Google search for “carbon calculator” and choose a company/organization you want to support--and use their carbon calculator.
What do I do after I calculate my Carbon Footprint?
If you’re doing well...and recycling, reusing, and thinking about the Planet, you might not need to do much. Except keep up the good work!
But what about those things that you “can’t avoid” or that are “difficult” to avoid, for whatever reason, such as travel or paper use?
Consider offsetting your carbon use. Here are some ways in which to do this:
1) Native Energy: For example, you can offset the carbon used in traveling with the easy to use calculator here: http://www.nativeenergy.com/pages/travel_calculator/465.php
2) Plant trees or donate to the Green Belt Movement: http://greenbeltmovement.org
3) Purchase a Terrapass: http://store.terrapass.com/store/c/18-Carbon-offsets.html?&
Get this!: You can even use Search Engines powered by Alternative Energy such as this one called Gigablast: http://www.gigablast.com/
“Gigablast is the leading clean-energy search engine. 90% of its power comes from wind energy” (Gigablast, 2010).
Tell us how you are offsetting your Carbon use.
Sarah and Robert, Owners of YZNRG, an Alternative Energy Consulting Company located in the San Francisco Bay Area: www.yznrg.com
(We work nationally and internationally.)
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