Calculate Your Environmental Impact at Home

There is a great online tool that will calculate your environmental impact at home and help you learn ways to decrease your footprint - the Environmental Impact Calculator from Low Impact Living. It’s easy, fun and pretty comprehensive.

The questions address your home, your car, your travel, your water habits, recycling and lots of other every day living activities. A score of 100 is average, 50 is green territory and 20-30 is you should be teaching class. I scored a 48, which I consider pretty good considering I have yearly long haul “love miles” from Germany to the States to visit family.

The quiz doesn’t account for offsets (I do offset my air travel) for electricity or flying and there are plenty of topics that could be included on the list of questions like consumer practices (buying local, organic) but this quiz goes more in-depth than other similar online tools. And, after you get your score you’ll get helpful hints and tips on where you can improve your green living lifestyle.

Find the quiz here.