Articles tagged “Green Calculators”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Measure Your Eco-Anxiety Level By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Apr 2 2008 How panicked do you get when you think about global warming?When you watched An Inconvenient Truth, did you a) fixate on Al Gore's coif, b) try to calculate the carbon footprint of your organic Oreos, or c) wonder where you could stop for a bottle of Pepto Bismol-and then worry about the impact all that plastic will... + READ MORE

Evaluate the Cost of Going Solar By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 20 2008 If you're considering a solar-electric system, but you want to crunch some actual, rather than hypothetical numbers before you take the leap, visit FindSolar.com, a Web site sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, the American Solar Energy Society, and the Solar Electric Power Association. The online calculator... + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: Calculate Your Lunch Savings By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 17 2008 We've mentioned that brown-bagging it to work will save you a wad, but if you want to talk tangible numbers, hop on over to Dinkytown, a financial Web site that includes a lunch-savings calculator.Noshing on home-cooked goodness 20 times a month, according to the numbers we crunched, could potentially save you $4,888... + READ MORE

Calculate Your Carbon Emissions Using Localized Data By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2008 Another day, another carbon calculator. The CoolClimate Calculator, on the other hand, factors where you live, since local and regional climate can have an impact on how much heating and cooling you do in your home, in addition to how many miles you fly each year, how much you drive, and what foods you eat. + READ MORE

Calculate Your Laundry Footprint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 25 2008 Your whites may be dazzlingly white, but how green is your wash? Get sorted into the right pile with the Sierra Club's simple quiz, with 10 questions that suss out the frequency of your washing, the cost of your monthly dry-cleaning bill, and the temperature of the water you use, among other laundering inclinations. + READ MORE

Get Recession-Ready: Conduct a Home Energy Audit By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 5 2008 As the evidence that going green saves you green continues to mount, there has never been a better time to improve the efficiency of your home's energy systems.Depending on what you told it-how long you're willing to wait for return on investment, what your current energy costs are-the calculator can recommend some... + READ MORE

Find a Green PC for Your Home, Office By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Tech & Transport Jan 4 2008 If it's a greener computing setup you're after, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI) has you covered with an online catalog showcasing 300 desktop PCs, laptops, servers, power supplies, motherboards, and power-management tools that meet standards the non-profit set with the aim of halving computer power... + READ MORE

Calculate Your Kid's Ecological Footprint By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Dec 6 2007 Here's a carbon-footprint calculator tailored especially for the young 'uns: Zerofootprint's KidsCalculator measures a child's impact on the planet by asking questions in context with their lifestyles. Be sure not to miss the extensive resources the site has listed for teachers and parents, because you're going to find + READ MORE

Calculate Your Ecological Footprint By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Dec 3 2007 If everyone in the world lived like the average U.S. citizen-that is, had similar eating, transportation, living, and consumption habits-we'd need 5 1/3 planets to support ourselves; the planet has about 4.5 biologically productive acres for each person in the world, and the average ecological footprint in the US is 24... + READ MORE

Save More Money by Eating More Veggies By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Nov 30 2007 As we've seen from Kelly's "Eat Your Veggies" series, laying off the meat can be delicious, in addition to being better for the planet.According to the USDA, the weighted average price for all fresh fruit is 71 cents per pound; that averages out to about 18 cents per serving, and almost two-thirds of the fresh fruits,... + READ MORE