This is a comprehensive list of websites to calculate your environmental footprint, and I invite you to visit them all. All in English.
It’d take you 5 minutes each, and it is indeed interesting stats about the impact that your ways of life have on the environment
- Definitely the best around in terms of information, interaction, simplicity and graphics. The problem is that it provides little to the international: only US and Australia appear as possible countries to live in:
www.earthday.net/footprint/flash.html, or
www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
(My results: 2-3 planets, the biggest chunk of my footprint goes on services, food and objects. 14.3 hectares are needed for my way of life, I emit 14 tons of CO2 annually I wonder what my footprint would be if I didn’t live in the US or Australia, which is my case).
- As the last one, it has a very North focus (things such as heating systems and flights are a novelty for most of us down South), but it’s easy to understand and has good graphics:
(My results: 1.96 planets, I emit 7.97tons of carbon a year, distributed in things, house, travels and food.)
- Good to calculate carbon footprints due to air travel:
www.offsetco2.ca/calculate.htm
- Interesting top calculate carbon footprints for your car. Again, it has the limitation that it only applies to the US and the UK (as I don’t have a car, I didn’t do it).
www.sustainourplanet.com/calc.php
- Good to calculate carbon footprints due to air travel, a bit poor in graphics and interaction.
- An easy overall calculation, easy to get:
www.ecologicalfootprint.org/Global Footprint Calculator/GFPCalc.html
- Again, a good calculation of carbon footprint, and, ups, it’s in German!
Good luck!
(Read Ambientalesco in SPANISH HERE)
