Your Carbon Profile

Carbon Emissions Calculation

Building up a profile of individual carbon emissions is complex, largely because the available data is spread wide and far. There are several web-based tools to help individuals understand their emissions:

• Good Energy Price and Carbon Calculator (www.good-energy.co.uk/carboncalculator/)
• Future Forests (www.futureforests.com/acatalog/index_shop_calculator.asp)
• Mersey Forest carbon offset calculator (www.cyberium.co.uk/carboncalculator/)
• Climate Care home and air travel carbon calculator (www.co2.org/Calculator/index)
• Energy Saving Trust energy calculator (www.est.org.uk/bestpractice/energycalc/)

Carbon Data

I've collated some carbon data from the web. Have a look and be surprised!

CarbonCalc - a more powerful tool

I've explored all the above carbon calculator tools and found them insufficient for planning a greener lifestyle. Since they're all web-based, I cannot load and save data, so I cannot easily compare my carbon emissions this year with those of last year. I also find them too generic, since they have limited input data sets.

In response to these issues, I've started developing an offline carbon profiling and analysis tool - CarbonCalc.

-- (c) James Lea, www.GreenLiving.co.uk, 2005 - 2007 --