AlertMe Feature Focus
Carbon Footprint
Understand your home's environmental impact and learn to live a greener life
Features
- Know how much carbon dioxide your home creates
- Calculate your home’s carbon footprint and find ways to drive this down.
- Monitor your CO2 usage over time and spot trends to help reduce your footprint.
Benefits
- Convert kgs of carbon into something you can understand, like miles travelled, plane trips, plastic bags used or gallons of petrol.
- Reduce your carbon emissions and make your home more environmentally friendly.
- See how your carbon footprint compares to the UK average.
CO2, Carbon emissions, carbon trading, zero carbon, carbon neutral, carbon footprint...it’s hard to escape these terms nowadays. But few of us really know what they mean or what our carbon footprint actually is. Even if you did know how many kgs of CO2 your home emits every year it’s still hard to work out what this means or what you can do to reduce it.
The Carbon Trust estimates that the average UK home energy usage generates 1.37 tonnes of carbon per year*, that’s 1370 kg of carbon. How do you compare? Is your carbon footprint high, low, about average? Now with Carbon Footprint you can see at a glance how your carbon emissions compare to the national average and take steps to reduce your impact on the environment.
Carbon Footprint in AlertMe lets you can see just how energy efficient your home really is. Keep track of your home’s carbon footprint and see how many kgs of carbon you use every day, month, or even over a year.
But what does a kg of carbon really mean? With Carbon Footprint in AlertMe you can understand what your carbon footprint means in easy to understand measures. Convert your carbon footprint into something you can imagine like miles travelled in a car, airplane journeys, ferry crossings, tonnes of garbage, gallons of petrol, and much more so you can get to grips with your environmental impact and take steps to live a greener life.