Activity 2 What’s my Carbon Footprint?

Go to the following website and research online to complete the table.

https://www.conservation.org/carbon-footprint-calculator#/

A Typical
My Green House A Green Household’s
Household’s Green
Area Gases Emissions in Green House Gases
House Gases
Tonnes Emissions in Tonnes
Emissions in Tonnes
Transport 11.30 19.33 0.791
Air travel 11.51 19.33 0.8057
Heating and Cooling
Hot water
Clothes drying
Lighting
Refrigeration
Cooking
Other appliances
Food and shopping
Waste
TOTAL

Questions
1. Identify 3 areas in which your family could change their energy usage.
Air condition, oven and washing machine
2. How could you help your family to decrease the emissions?
● Make the changes to the three areas showing the decrease.

● Check your graph using the swap comparison.

Our family can reduce the amount of cooking in the oven and use the gas stove to cook
food more often.
Question
1. Evaluate the effectiveness of your changes.
The electricity bill was reduced due to considerably low usage compared to previous bills.
Extension:

● Evaluate two web sites that calculates carbon footprint and determine which website has
given the most accurate and reliable learning experience in regard to leaving a carbon
footprint.
Make sure you justify your answer.
● Next go onto the internet and collect two other websites that can help educate society in
an interactive forum about living a carbon footprint. Under your web address outline the
criteria that you used to make your selection.