TheCarbonAccount.com - Track and Reduce Your Footprint

If you would like to live a greener life or help your friends to do the same, TheCarbonAccount.com is a new site you might find quite useful. On this site, you can go beyond simply reading information on how to minimize your environmental impact. When you register and create your “Carbon Account” you can enter personal and household data and start tracking your personal carbon footprint. Your carbon footprint is a common term used to describe the total amount of carbon emissions you are personally responsible for. You may be directly responsible (such as the fuel you burn in your car) or indirectly responsible (such as the carbon emissions resulting from production and transportation of the food you eat). TheCarbonAccount takes both types into account when calculating your footprint. This site goes a step further than most other carbon footprint calculators by asking you to keep entering information over time – such as gas meter readings, car mileage, or information about flights taken. TheCarbonAccount also has a Facebook App that was recently released.

"The Carbon Account helps you reduce your footprint and share tips with friends. We can set up a special version for your community group or business."

Unlike a lot of sites that only provide information on how to live a greener life, TheCarbonAccount.com helps individuals to gauge their personal impact on the environment. This may help put things in a perspective that will increase the level of action individuals actually take towards minimizing their environmental impact on a personal level.

Will the average, busy person remember to take the regular meter, mileage, etc. readings required and to then feed that information to TheCarbonAccount consistently enough to get accurate measurements of their carbon footprint over time? Could the site send reminders to take readings, if users wanted to turn that option on? Can you compare your carbon footprint to other users or national or global averages?