Ill be honest, I never thought much more or less the carbon I was pumping into the freshen until a friend sent me a associate to a My Carbon Footprint Tools: Calculator Footprint one rainy Sunday. She joked, Lets see how ecofriendly you in fact are. I laughed, clicked, and instantly got hooked upon the idea of putting a number on my impact. That easy click turned into a weeklong bunny hole of data, surprises, and a few wait, what? moments that changed the habit I live.

Honestly, my combination wasnt purely altruistic. My electricity balance had been creeping up, and Id just returned from a road vacation that left me wondering how much fuel Id burned. I figured a carbon footprint calculator could pay for me a clearer pictureand maybe help me save some cash. Id heard just about carbon footprint tools in the news, but Id never tried one myself. The notion of quantifying something as abstract as my personal climate impact felt both strange and kinda exciting.

The My Carbon Footprint Tools: Calculator Footprint works later than a digital detective. You respond a series of questions about your home activity use, transportation habits, diet, and even shopping frequency. The algorithm later spits out an estimate carbon footprint of your annual greenhousegas emissions in kilograms of COe.