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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

Household Carbon Footprint Calculator

Home Energy Transportation Waste

Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

Make a selection in all calculator sections and fields to improve your results.

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Your Household Carbon Footprint Print/Save

View Your Annual Estimated CO2 Emissions (lbs) from...

Home Energy Transportation Waste

Your Current Total

39,370

New Total After Your

Planned Actions
35,036

U.S. Average
28,924

Your Planned Actions Are Equal to:

Saving OR Planting OR Recycling

221 gallons 50 trees 1,398 tons of

of gas waste

Let friends know what you're doing to reduce CO2 Share It!
emissions

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Small Actions Add Up

If 100 of your friends took these actions, over

5 years their households would avoid
2,167,018 pounds of emissions,
equivalent to the emissions from burning
110,562 gallons of gasoline.

If you take all of the new actions you've

Dollar Savings CO2 Reduction
selected:

Turn up A/C thermostat in summer by 5℉ $117 1,380 lbs.

Replace 4 incandescent light bulbs with

$16 184 lbs.
ENERGY STAR lights

Wash your clothes in cold water $12 139 lbs.

Reduce the number of miles you drive on

$511 2,066 lbs.
Vehicle 1

Replace Vehicle 1 with one that gets 25

$104 564 lbs.
MPG

Your Estimated Totals: $760 4,334 lbs.

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By taking all of the actions you are

Dollar Savings CO2 Reduction
already doing:

Replace your window with ENERGY STAR

$150 10,318 lbs.
models

Perform regular maintenance on your

$61 329 lbs.
vehicles

Recycling: aluminum and steel cans 268 lbs.

Your Estimated Totals: $211 10,915 lbs.

For More Information

Visit these websites to learn more about climate change and how you can reduce your carbon
footprint.

About Climate Change

EPA's Climate Change Site
A Student's Guide to Climate
Change

Home Energy Use

EPA's Climate Change Site: What
You Can Do at Home
ENERGY STAR Home Advisor
ENERGY STAR Home Energy
Yard Stick
My ENERGY STAR

Transportation
EPA's Climate Change Site: What
You Can Do on the Road
EPA's Green Vehicle Guide
Fueleconomy.gov

Waste

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EPA's Climate Change and Waste

page
EPA's Sustainable Materials
Management Program

Last update d on July 14, 2016

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