Calculating Your Carbon Footprint

What is your Carbon Footprint?
Write down each of these and we'll show you:
Miles per week you drive
Miles per week you take the AU bus
Miles per year you fly
Amount of trash you recycle (25%, 50%, 75%, or everything possible)
Electricity bill per month
Natural gas bill per month

Take each of these stats and multiply, add, and do the math to calculate your impact.

Calculating Your Carbon Footprint
How many miles you drive per week?
-Gasoline engine
20 mpg = _____x 120 lbs of CO2 per year
30 mpg = _____x 60
40 mpg = _____x 50
-Diesel engine
20 mpg = _____x 150
30 mpg = _____x 75
40 mpg = _____x 60

How many miles per week on AU bus?
_____x 15 lbs of CO2 per year

How many miles do you fly per year?
_____x 2 lbs of CO2 per year

Amount of trash you recycling:
none = _____ x 6,300 lbs of CO2 per year
25% = _____ x 5,200 lbs
50% = _____ x 3,900 lbs
75% = _____ x 2,700 lbs
Everything possible = _____ x 1,500 lbs

For every $1/month on electricity or natural gas _____ x 250 lbs of CO2 per year

Eat beef = Add 1,000

Eat a lot of imported foods = Add 1,000

Electricity from green power or nuclear = Cut utility amount in half

Mow grass once a week in summer = Add 1,000 lbs per acre mowed

Throw away a freezer or refrigerator = Add 1,000

Use a fireplace or woodstove = Add 4,000

Does your vehicle have AC = Add 300

Add it up: What is your carbon footprint?

The Kyoto Protocol recommends 11,000 lbs per person for developed nations.