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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

Household Carbon Footprint Calculator

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Your Household Carbon Footprint Report

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

Home Energy Transportation Waste

Your Current Total

Your CO2
Emissions are
lower than the
39,935 U.S. average.
New Total After Your Keep up the
good work!
Planned Actions
33,892

U.S. Average

39,403

Your Planned Actions Are Equal to:

Saving

308 gallons of gas

OR

Planting

70 trees
OR

Recycling
 1,949 tons of waste

Let friends know what you're doing Share It!

to reduce CO2 emissions

Small Actions Add Up

If 100 of your friends took these

actions, over 5 years their
households would avoid

3,021,472 pounds of
emissions, equivalent to the
emissions from burning

154,156 gallons of gasoline.

If you take all of the new Dollar CO2

actions you've selected: Savings Reduction

Turn down heating thermostat

$17 193 lbs.
on winter nights by 1℉

Turn up A/C thermostat in

$0 0 lbs.
summer by 0℉
:
 Replace 20 incandescent light
bulbs with ENERGY STAR $80 713 lbs.
lights

Replace your window with

$150 2,947 lbs.
ENERGY STAR models

Reduce the number of miles

$196 662 lbs.
you drive on Vehicle 1

Replace Vehicle 1 with one that

$283 1,528 lbs.
gets 30 MPG

Your Estimated Totals: $727 6,043 lbs.

By taking all of the actions Dollar CO2

you are already doing: Savings Reduction

Enable the power management

$13 116 lbs.
features on your computer

Wash your clothes in cold water $12 108 lbs.

Use clothes line or drying rack

instead of dryer for 10% of $9 83 lbs.
your laundry

Replace your refrigerator with

$38 348 lbs.
ENERGY STAR models

Replace your furnace or boiler

$78 728 lbs.
with ENERGY STAR models

Perform regular maintenance on

$297 1,605 lbs.
your vehicles
:
 Recycling: newspapers, glass,
plastic, aluminum and steel 582 lbs.
cans, magazines

Your Estimated Totals: $448 3,569 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
EPA's Climate Change
and Waste page
EPA's Sustainable
Materials Management
Program

Last updated on July 14, 2016

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