Links from Julie Vaughan’s July 20 talk “What does Green mean to you?” (Julie Vanghan, Senior Planner, Dept. of Planning and Land Management, Town of Concord, MA)

The links below include useful and fun tools to help you calculate the carbon footprint of your meals, your car/plane trips, your home, and your purchases. Julie has also provided the link to Catherine Mohr’s humorous discussion of building green, the link to Michael Bluejay’s website, and an article explaining what carbon footprints really are.

Is my lunch causing global warming? (Bon Appetit) Put your meal in the “frying pan” to see how green your meal is! http://www.eatlowcarbon.org 

How green is your transport? Use the Terrapass calculator to evaluate your transportation and housing options. http://www.terrapass.com/carbon-footprint-calculator/

Use Berkeley’s comprehensive calculators to evaluate your carbon footprint.  http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/

Another set of comprehensive carbon footprint calculators—this one if from the Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/calculator/

EPA’s Household Emissions Calculator  http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ind_calculator.html

Michael Bluejay’s website: http://michaelbluejay.com

Catherine Mohr’s 6 minute video about building green: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/catherine_mohr_builds_green.html

Jeffrey Ball’s Wall Street Journal article explaining carbon footprints. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122304950601802565.html (WSJ Article, March 2009, 6 Products – 6 Carbon Footprints)

Low Carbon Diet (pdf)

MassSave Free Home Energy Assessment Program (pdf)

Composting (pdf)

Carbon Test, 6 Products, 6 Carbon Footprints (pdf)

Carbon Test Answers (pdf)