Resources for Residents and Homeowners
Useful tools for understanding the community around you, evaluating your energy, water and other resource consumption—and clear steps you can take to tread more lightly.
“Window To My Environment” (WME) is a powerful web-based tool that provides a wide range of federal, state, and local information about environmental conditions and features in an area of your choice. This application is provided by U.S. EPA in partnership with federal, state and local government and other organizations.
Energy Efficient Rehab Advisor
This Advisor describes the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) guidelines for conducting energy efficient housing rehabilitation.
Footprint Calculators
This Ecological Footprint Quiz estimates how much productive land and water you need to support what you use and what you discard. After answering 15 easy questions you’ll be able to compare your Ecological Footprint to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.
Calculate the potential savings of switching to Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs from incandescent.
Paper Choice Environmental Impact Calculator
By choosing the right paper, you can save wood, water, and energy, and cut pollution and solid waste. The Paper Calculator shows the environmental impacts of different papers across their full lifecycle.
The water footprint of an individual is defined as the total amount of freshwater that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by the individual as a result of its own consumption pattern and country of residence.
Pollution from cars and making electricity is a major cause of global warming. Take a personal pollution inventory and see how you can help.
The Office Footprint Calculator
considers your energy use, waste stream, and purchasing patterns to measure both the Global Acres required to support your activities and the CO2 emissions that result. The use of exact figures is encouraged, but the option to input averages is provided.