Measurement

We provide your congregation’s total footprint in both pounds of carbon and in acres.

Why Acres?

The vast majority of energy we use today is derived from the burning of fossil fuels such as oil, natural gas, and coal. Our carbon footprint measures how much carbon we put into the atmosphere through various activities such as driving. The carbon footprint, however, can be expressed in other ways that are more useful and more consistent with the original ecological footprint concept: the area of the Earth’s surface needed to absorb those emissions. On average, it takes roughly 41 acres to absorb one ton of carbon emissions. Other gases that contribute to global warming – namely methane from waste – are converted into “carbon equivalent” units then added to the carbon footprint.