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Canadian Climate Change Calculator
This tool calculates personal greenhouse gas emissions and lists mitigation strategies. Using a graphical example of a Canadian community, the user answers a series of questions on home heating and cooling, appliances, transportation, and recreation activities. Available online or as a downloadable file.
http://www.climcalc.net/
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Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Emissions Tabulator
Users can determine their average annual CO2 emissions by completing the this on-line questionnaire. Results will tabulate pounds of CO2 produced for each daily activity and compare it to the average annual emissions in the United States.
http://globalwarming.enviroweb.org/games/yourscore/yourscore2.html
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Climate Change Calculator
The Climate Change Calculator allows users to input data to find out the tons of carbon dioxide emitted by individual households in a given year. The tool will calculate total emissions and the number of trees that would need to be planted to offset those emissions.
http://www.americanforests.org/resources/ccc/index.php
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Emissions Calculator
The emissions calculator tabulates a user's aggregate monthly emissions of seven air pollutants (in pounds) from electricity and natural gas consumption, airplane trips, and vehicle miles traveled (auto or sport utility vehicle/truck) and compares them with average national emissions. Emissions profiles may be saved and updated monthly to track performance. The site also offers suggestions on reducing emissions.
http://www.airhead.org/Calculator/
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Energy Design Tools
This website contains software developed by the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. All the software can be downloaded for free, and the site encourages sharing these tools with others. Available software includes: Climate Consultant, which graphically displays climate data in dozens of ways; Solar 5.7, which displays 3-D plots of hourly energy performance for the whole building or for any of 16 different components; and Energy Economics Primer, which aids in evaluating building energy decisions using Life-Cycle Cost Analysis, Net Benefit/Savings-To Investment Ratio, Internal Rate of Return, Discounted Payback; among others.
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/energy-design-tools/
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Energy Star Quiz
The Energy Star Quiz provides information to help consumers quickly and easily identify lighting products, appliances, home office equipment, home theater/consumer electronics, and a range of other products that save energy, money, and help to protect the environment.
http://www.energystar.gov/changealight/ilg/quiz_entry.asp
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NOAA's Mission is to describe and predict changes in the Earth's environment, and conserve and wisely manage the Nation's coastal and marine resources. NOAA's strategy consists of seven interrelated Strategic Goals for environmental assessment, prediction and stewardship, which are presented as theme pages on their Web site.
http://www.noaa.gov
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Personal CO2 Calculation
This site provides a worksheet to determine yearly direct personal carbon dioxide emissions. The results include an annual personal carbon dioxide emissions chart and a per capita chart compared with other industrialized countries. Suggestions on reducing emissions while saving money are also provided.
http://www.iclei.org/iclei/co2calc.htm
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SafeClimate Carbon Dioxide Footprint Calculator
The SafeClimate tool calculates emissions from home energy and transportation. These totals are then used to track a CO2 footprint over time. As the user takes actions to reduce emissions, totals are recalculated. Recommendations for emissions reductions are also included.
http://safeclimate.net/calculator/
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State and Local Climate Change Outreach Kit
Focusing on voluntary strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that can help states and communities, this tool provides outreach information for municipalities of any population, prepared in a pdf format.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/tools/outreach_kit.pdf
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The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Information System
CERCLIS contains information on hazardous waste sites, site inspections, preliminary assessments, and remediation of hazardous waste sites. The EPA provides online access to CERCLIS data and standard CERCLIS site reports can be downloaded to a personal computer.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/topics/wasteinf.htm#cerod1
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The Municipal Solid Waste Factbook
The MSW Factbook is an electronic reference manual containing over 250 screens of information about household waste management practices. It contains information about the federal MSW program as well as profiles of individual state programs, and comparisons of practices in major developed nations. Tables, charts and maps display useful facts and figures about source reduction, recycling, land disposal and combustion of MSW.
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/muncpl/factbook/
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The Personal Environmental Impact Calculator
This calculator determines personal environmental impacts from home energy, transportation, recycling habits and water usage. Results include emissions of CO2, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, nuclear spent fuel, and particulate matter.
http://ans.ep.wisc.edu/~eic/personal.impact.html
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Waste Reduction Model
The Waste Reduction Model (WARM) helps solid waste planners and organizations track and voluntarily report greenhouse gas emissions reductions from several different waste management practices. WARM is available online and as a downloadable Microsoft Excel spreadsheet program.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/actions/waste/warm.htm
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