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The SafeClimate carbon footprint calculator allows you to determine carbon dioxide emissions from major sources: home energy consumption and transportation by car and plane.

Estimate the embodied CO2 of a whole construction project. The Construction Carbon Calculator helps developers, builders, architects and land planners approximate the net embodied carbon of a project's structures and site.

Footprint Calculator - How much land area does it take to support your lifestyle? Take this quiz to find out your Ecological Footprint, discover your biggest areas of resource consumption, and learn what you can do to tread more lightly on the earth.

Paper Calculator - This tool will help you quantify the benefits of better paper choices. The Paper Calculator shows the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle.

EPA's Personal Online Greenhouse Gas Calculator

Wheel Card Calculator - EPA's Global Warming Wheel Card is a hand-held tool that you can use to estimate your household's emissions of carbon dioxide and learn how you can reduce them.

ENERGYguide.com - Your unbiased advice about today's energy choices. Find ways to save, lower your bills and help the earth's environment.

WAste Reduction Model (WARM) - EPA created the WAste Reduction Model (WARM) to help solid waste planners and organizations track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas emissions reductions from several different waste management practices.

The Home Energy Saver is designed to help consumers identify the best ways to save energy in their homes, and find the resources to make the savings happen.

Recycled Content (ReCon) Tool - EPA created the Recycled Content (ReCon) Tool to help companies and individuals estimate life-cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and energy impacts from purchasing and/or manufacturing materials with varying degrees of post-consumer recycled content.

Factoid - Did you know?

If 5,000 residents in Grand Haven were to switch out just one incandescent bulb for an Energy Star qualified 13-watt EarthBulb from Muskegon-based EarthTronics, it would prevent over 3,400,000 lbs of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from going into the environment and save about $235,000.

Last Fall, Project Light Change set out to change perceptions about compact fluorescent light bulbs by delivering one free CFL bulb, along with information on the benefits of the bulbs, to every home in the City of Grand Haven. The initiative was a project of West Michigan Environmental Action Council and Earthtronics’ Green Ribbon Program.

Source: Project Light Change, www.projectlightchange.org