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Tracking Your Carbon Footprint
"What gets measured gets done."
You may want to know how much carbon your household creates now, before you start reducing. This will help you to get to your goal and to feel proud of what you are about to achieve, MCAN also collects and measures the results of the Low Carbon Living teams. Together we can achieve much more!
To get started, go to the Empowerment Institute's carbon calculator and take a snapshot of your carbon footprint as it is now, before you start reducing.
This CO2 calculator has been designed to accompany the Low Carbon Diet. To fill it out accurately, you will need to have available:
- your last few payment statements from your electricity, natural gas and/or heating oil providers.
- the average weekly or annual miles driven in each of your household’s cars.
- the miles per gallon that each of your household's cars gets. (If you need help calculating this, see page 17 of the Low Carbon Diet workbook.)
- the number of airplane miles traveled per year. Help is available on the calculator to estimate this.
When you have your estimated carbon footprint, print it, so you can bring it with you to your LoCaL group. You will use this as the starting point for your Low Carbon Diet plan.