Calculators...
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www.epa.gov
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Environmental Protection Agency's 'Personal' Emissions
Calculator to obtain an estimate of your personal greenhouse gas
emissions or your family’s greenhouse gas emissions. Then move on to
the next section of the calculator to explore actions you and/or your
family can take to lower your emissions while reducing your energy
and waste disposal costs.
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www.epa.gov
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Environmental Protection Agency’s 'household' greenhouse gas
emissions calculator.
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www.safeclimate.net
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World Resources Institute's Safe Climate carbon footprint
calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from
major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car
and plane.
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www.eatlowcarbon.org
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Bon Appetit. Compare the carbon effects of your food choices. Drop
and drag your food items into the frying pan and calculate your impact.
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www.waterfootprint.org
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Water Footprint Calculator (personal)- defined as the total amount
of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed
by an individual as a result of its own consumption patterns and
country of residence.
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www.bp.com
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BP Energy Calculator shows the amount of carbon dioxide
emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and
transportation by car and plane. This tool will help you to understand
your energy profile and estimate your carbon footprint. It shows you
how different choices can result in energy savings and a smaller
carbon footprint. Flash Animation.
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www.carbonfootprint.com
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Carbon Footprint Calculator. Home or Business. UK Company.
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www.infinitepower.org
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Texas State Energy Conservation Office's interactive calculators
help you understand energy production and consumption in a whole
new way. Use them to develop a personal profile of your own energy
use.
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Consumer Footprint:
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www.nationalgeographic.com
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Greendex. National Geographic and the international polling firm
GlobeScan are measuring and monitoring consumer progress toward
environmentally sustainable consumption in 14 countries around the
world. Greendex ranks the performance of individual consumers,
rather than countries as a whole.
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Ecological Footprints:
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www.footprintnetwork.org
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Global Footprint Network serves as the steward of the National
Footprint Accounts, the calculation system that measures the
ecological resource use and resource capacity of nations over time.
Measures how much land and water area a human population requires
to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes, using
prevailing technology. ***
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www.panda.org
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Humanity's Ecological Footprint. 1961-2005. World Wildlife
Fund. "Effectively, the Earth’s regenerative capacity can no longer
keep up with demand – people are turning resources into waste faster
than nature can turn waste back into resources." ***
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sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network
(CIESIN) at Columbia University. The map gallery contains sample
maps for the continental Human Footprint and Human Influence Index.
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www.waterfootprint.org
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Water Footprint Network. National water footprints, corporate
water footprints, product footprints (see below), case studies of coffee
and tea, and cotton, international flows of virtual water, savings or
excess use of water due to trade, water footprint per unit of energy, etc.
UNESCO et al. ***
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www.waterfootprint.org
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Water Footprint Network- Choose a product and find its water
footprint. Food, cars, clothes, paper. ***
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www.earthday.net
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Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land
and water you need to support what you use and what you discard."
EarthDay Network.
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Population:
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www.worldpopulationbalance.org
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World Population Balance. Footprints per Country. Population
Education. Population Counters, Population and Energy Consumption,
etc...
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Reports:
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assets.panda.org
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World Wildlife Fund's The Living Planet Report is WWF's
periodic update on the state of the world's ecosystems. "Living Planet
Report 2008" confirms that we are using the planet’s resources faster
than they can be renewed. Our footprint exceeds the world’s ability to
regenerate by about 25 per cent. Lots of graphs, data, resources. PDF.***
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www.waterfootprint.org
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Water Footprint Network. Long list of resources, journal articles,
papers, reports as to water use.
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www.millennium
assessment.org
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The Condition and Trends Working Group's Current State &
Trends Assessment found that over the past 50 years, humans have
changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any
comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly
growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has
resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of
life on Earth. Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
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Resources:
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www.footprintnetwork.org
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Ecological Footprint- clocks humanity’s demand on nature.
Together with its partners, the Network coordinates research, develops
methodological standards, and provides decision makers with
resource accounts to help the human economy operate within the Earth’
s ecological limits. It measures how much land and water area a
human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to
absorb its wastes, using prevailing technology. Footprint Basics -
Overview.
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www.footprintnetwork.org
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Ecological Footprint- clocks humanity’s demand on nature. List of
resources used for calculations.
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www.millenniumassessment.org
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Millennium Ecosystem Assessment was called for by the United
Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2000, the objective of the
MA was to assess the consequences of ecosystem change for human
well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the
conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their
contribution to human well-being.
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Vehicles:
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www.epa.gov
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency developed a series of four
fact sheets to facilitate consistency of assumptions and practices in the
calculation of emissions of greenhouse gases from transportation and
mobile sources. They are intended as a reference for anyone estimating
emissions benefits of mobile sources air pollution control programs.
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The U.S. with just five percent of the world's population consumes 23% of its energy!
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