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Measure Your Climate Impact

Tools to help you assess your impact on the planet and takes steps to reduce it.

Low Carbon Living

Massachusetts Climate Action Network's three-year project called Low Carbon Living (LoCaL) is a friendly way to reduce the cost of home energy and the impacts of global warming.
http://www.massclimateaction.net/lcl/home

LiveCooler

LiveCooler - A new way to reduce carbon emissions that also helps others. Your offset purchase provides energy-saving lightbulbs to low-income families.
http://www.livecooler.org/

EnergyRace

Visit Energyrace.com, created by First Parish member Jay Barnes, to calculate your carbon footprint, adopt lower impact lifestyle changes and see the results of these changes.
http://energyrace.com/

An Inconvenient Truth

A carbon calculator from the web site for Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth.
http://www.climatecrisis.net/takeaction/carboncalculator/

Your Ecological Footprint

The Footprint Calculator estimates how much of the Earth's biocapacity is needed to support a person's consumption choices over the course of a year. The results can be compared to the global average or sustainable rate.
http://www.ecologicalfootprint.org/Global Footprint Calculator/GFPCalc.html

Take the Nature Challenge

David Suzuki Foundation's "Take the Nature Challenge"
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/NatureChallenge/