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Green Footsteps In the Ground

New online calculator allows carbon neutrality estimates.

By Debra Hazel | Updated on December 11, 2009

SNOWMASS, CO-Okay, your brand-new building is carbon-neutral now–but how much carbon will you be saving in five, 10, 20 years? Green Footstep, an online calculator from the Rocky Mountain Institute, will help developers and designers calculate, and reduce carbon emissions in new construction and retrofits over a long term, the Institute says.

The calculator, launched three months ago, is an update of an existing service, but encompassing additional data, says Michael Bendewald, a Rocky Mountain Institute analyst who helped develop the program. The key difference is that Green Footsteps measures multiple building emissions over a building’s lifetime, RMI says, helping design professionals to make decisions to achieve a true carbon neutrality.

“We offered an excel version in 2006 through 2008 that only tracked operation building emissions,” Bendewald said. “The online version incorporates new elements, accounts for more sources of carbon emissions, and is much more interactive.”

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