Measuring Your Impact

Want to discover your own impacts?

Do you know where your greatest effects on the environment are?

Do you want to get a picture of how 'green' you are at present, to compare with in the future?

A number of tools are online to help you. The two links here are to tools that look at your impact on a range of sustainability issues. There are also 'carbon calculators' available to measure your carbon footprint. More information on these can be found on the link at the bottom of this page.

Footprinting www.bestfootforward.com
Ecological Footprinting is a method of defining your impact on the earth in terms of how big an area is needed to support you in your current lifestyle (your 'footprint'). Best Foot Forward have developed a number of simple tests to help you estimate your own footprint. The website also contains more information and examples of footprinting.

Greenscore www.greenscore.org.uk/
Global Action Plan have an online 'Greenscore' questionnaire that asks about your energy and water use, travel habits, and how you deal with waste, in order to calculate your instant greenscore, showing how green you are. You can log on again at a later date and discover how your greenscore improves over time.