Our Cool Congregations Calculator

Use our Cool Congregations Calculator to estimate your congregation’s carbon footprint. It offers a snapshot of your carbon footprint, allowing you to look at the best places to lower your footprint and become more energy smart. We break your carbon footprint down into four sub-components:

Energy use: we estimate the carbon emissions from your congregation’s use of electricity, natural gas and other fuels.

Transportation: carbon emissions from congregations and staff travel.

Goods and services: carbon emissions associated with food, office products, cleaning products, and everything else your congregation purchases.

Waste: emissions from landfill waste (mainly methane) converted into carbon equivalent units.

Then we give credit for lands your congregation may manage in their natural state as carbon sinks and for any carbon offsets your congregation has purchased.