calculating carbon produced and writing one page on it following the instructions

· Choose 1 Carbon Footprint Calculator from each column in the table below.

Many of these sites will ask you to make a donation to offset your carbon footprint.

You are under NO OBLIGATION to make a donation.

· Calculate your carbon footprint at each site and record the answer in a table format (you may want to answer the question based on your family rather than on the way that you are living as a student). Record the calculator name and your results. Additionally, provide a description of how your carbon footprint was calculated.

· In a min. 1-page paper, compare and contrast the 3 calculators you used.

· Do you think the questions that were asked were valid?

· Do you think that the result is a fair and adequate representation of your lifestyle?

· What would change in the calculators to make the answer more realistic?

· Is this website pushing a particular point of view?

· Based on the results of the calculations and from your own personal knowledge, what one or two things could you do to reduce your carbon footprint?

· Choose the calculator that you thought was the most accurate and adjust your answers so your footprint is reduced by at least 25%. Is this something that you can realistically do? Explain.