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The first step towards going green is to get an idea of how big your carbon footprint is and what contributes most to it.
To get a general idea of how much CO2 your home and lifestyle generate, you could use ClimateHero’s calculator. They say it takes five minutes to complete.
The World Wildlife Fund offers a similar questionnaire.
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After giving you the results, ClimateHero may offer to offset your emissions for a fee. There’s a lot of debate about offsetting. Some say it is better than doing nothing; others that it is worse. Either way, the best option is to make changes to your home and lifestyle that actually cut the emissions you generate.
Want to dig deeper?
If you’d prefer to go into more detail, a Martlesham resident has built an Excel spreadsheet to help you gather the data you need and add it all up.
To download a copy, click here.