r/Green • u/Funny_Philosophy_850 • Nov 18 '24

Green Footprint

We’re working on a project to calculate the Green Footprint of households, and your input would be super helpful! Could you please share the following details:

1️⃣ Household Name 2️⃣ Number of Members 3️⃣ Energy Usage (kWh) 4️⃣ Water Usage (liters) 5️⃣ Waste Production (kg) 6️⃣ Transportation Habits (Car, Bus, Train, Cycle, Walking, etc.) 7️⃣ Green Footprint (if you know it or just leave it blank, no worries!)

💡 Note: Approximations are totally fine if you're unsure about specific numbers.

Thank you so much for taking the time to help us out! Your input really means a lot. 🙏🌍

Looking forward to your response! 😊

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u/Mcgyvr Nov 18 '24

What do you mean by green footprint? Carbon footprint?

If people use natural gas or propane, can they give you that in L/m3/ft3/therms or whatever unit they buy it in?

Why aren't you asking about L/gal of car fuel?

Are you estimating the footprint of food as well?

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u/Mcgyvr Nov 18 '24

For my house: 1. Mcgyvr home 2. 15.6 MWh a year, which is all electricity usage and includes all of my driving (EVs), heating, cooling, hot water, etc.

We mostly drive EVs, sometimes I'll commute by bike.

Using Ontario's grid emission factor of 38 g/kWh, my electricity usage creates 0.6 tons of GHG emissions in CO2e.

Plus whatever our diets create and whatever plane travel we do, which is minimal and we do buy the nearly useless carbon credits to make up for it.

And we are putting solar on our house starting today, which will bring our home to net zero energy but won't wipe out the EVs usage.

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u/Funny_Philosophy_850 Nov 18 '24

What is water usage (daily in L) and waste productuon(daily kg)

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u/Mcgyvr Nov 18 '24

350 L/day Does waste include recycling, compost and garbage? Or just garbage?

Garbage alone, likely 1 kg a day... maybe. Including renovating and clean out...

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u/Funny_Philosophy_850 Nov 18 '24

Its a college activity, so we are told to get these details and calculate carbon footprint with help of these details

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u/ramakrishnasurathu Nov 29 '24

Tracking the footprint, step by step, to make sure our planet’s kept in check!