Carbon Calculator Green Light New Orleans

There's alot of talk these days about the likelihood that "greenhouse gasses", the most common of which is Carbon Dioxide, will cause the Earth's climate to significantly change. If you're like most Americans, each time you drive your car, hop on a plane, flick on a light, or consume energy in other ways, you contribute in a small way to this effect.

Curious how much? This worksheet allows you to easily tally up your own personal "carbon budget".

Auto Transportation:

travel of miles, at
miles per gallon, burns gallons of gasoline annually, putting pounds of carbon (about 5 lbs/gal) into our air.

Air Transportation:

travel of miles via commercial airline puts about pounds of carbon into our air annually.

Home Electric Usage:

use of kilowatt-hours of electricity, if your power plant generates power from puts pounds of carbon into our air each year.

Home Natural Gas Usage:

use of Therms (Or ccf - hundred cubic feet) of Natural Gas contributes pounds of carbon to our air each year.

Home Fuel Oil Usage:

use of gallons of Fuel Oil adds pounds of carbon to our air each year.

YOUR TOTAL CONTRIBUTION

Your total atmospheric carbon contribution is approximately pounds per year. That's pounds of Carbon Dioxide (CO₂). In different terms, this amounts to pounds of carbon per hour, cubic feet of CO₂ per hour, or cubic feet of CO₂ per minute. Of course, this ignores all of the energy spent to produce all of the goods that you buy...you might want to double these numbers!

"OK, so how many light bulbs have to be exchanged to remove my CO₂?".

Well, according to the information you supplied we can exchange regular light bulbs with CFL light bulbs and your CO2 production would be removed. Thank you!

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