Through
the calculation of your carbon footprint, it is evident that the activities that create the greatest amount of emissions can be reduced through conservation.
You can do a relatively simple
calculation of your carbon footprint here and try to lower that impact over time.
Calculations are often deceptive because steps are left out for some technologies, notably the decommissioning and disposal steps are often left out in
calculation of carbon footprints for nuclear power.
Not exact matches
Hotels in the UK need to start saving energy right now in order to prepare for increasing energy bills in the future, according to Ecompter, a provider
of carbon footprint calculation and sustainability services to many leading hotel and accommodation providers.
Though not authors
of the article, the heavy lifting on the
carbon calculations was done by Tyler Colman
of DrVino and TreeHugger contributer Pablo Paster, and the results are very interesting: Transporting that wine to you by truck or ship really changes the
carbon footprint of your glass
of Pinot.
All
of which meet the Quality Assurance Standard for
Carbon Offsetting following a
footprint calculation on this web site and BSI's PAS 2060 specification on
carbon neutrality.
As it turns out, the
carbon footprint of every cheeseburger is about 6.3 to 6.8 pounds; this
calculation includes a myriad
of factors from growing the feed for the cattle for the beef and cheese, growing the produce, storing and transporting the components, as well as cooking them all.