Here’s a term which has gone from unknown to a household word (wishful thinking?) in the blink of an eye. For the best definition of the term we could find, check out our old friend Wikipedia’s entry for ’carbon footprint’.

Here’s a beautifully done carbon calculator from the government of the UK, on their Direct.Gov.UK website.

There’s also a decent website out of the UK with precisely that name, CarbonFootprint.com. It’s a bit on the commercial side, but it’s worth a ‘look see’.

And here’s the US EPA’s carbon calculator. Less imaginative than that from the British government, but fairly straightforward.

The Nature Conservancy’s Carbon Calculator is another to try. Good group to go with in general. They’ve a long history of trying to save the wild places and special habitats of earth.

We don’t endorse the site, and always caution readers to be careful about the proliferation of ‘green carpetbaggers’ on the Internet. For instance, the web address www.carbonfootprint.org is a complete sham. It’s a shopping portal with a green tilt. Avoid supporting these kinds of scam websites. Don’t even go look! They are likely counting the traffic and preparing to sell the URL (web address) to the highest bidder based upon the traffic they can site!

As everywhere nowadays, the forgotten art of ’critical thinking’ is becoming more and more of a survival tool than we can imagine!