LOWIMPACTLIVING.COM LAUNCES HOUSEHOLD ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT CALCULATOR
Date: Monday, March 31 @ 10:00:04 EDT
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Low Impact Living.com, the largest green home improvement site online,
has launched a groundbreaking new Household Environmental Impact
Calculator and rating system. These tools will help Americans
understand their environmental impacts and chart a course to a more
eco-friendly home and lifestyle. (Please see the calculator at
www.lowimpactliving.com)
This new calculator allows homeowners to input information about their
homes and consumption habits (e.g., house square footage, power use,
miles driven, etc.) and get a full picture of their environmental
impacts. The tool calculates not only carbon emissions (or “carbon
footprint” as it is called) but ALL environmental impacts— including
energy use, water consumption, trash production, urban run-off
production and more. It is the most comprehensive environmental impact
calculator available online.
The user also receives a “LILI” or Low Impact Living IndexTM for their
household. The LILITM is a rating of their overall environmental impact
that ranks them relative to other households of their size in their
region. For example the average LILI is 100, and if a household
received a LILI of 50, they would have a below-average, or positive,
environmental impact. If their LILI is 200, they have work to do. The
goal is to reach as low of a LILI as possible.
The calculator goes a step further to provide recommendations for how
Americans can improve the environmental sustainability of their homes
and lifestyles. The user receives a list of green projects they can
undertake to lower their impact. There are recommendations on such
topics as solar power, wind power and other alternative energy sources
insulation and weatherproofing low-impact landscaping green building
materials, non-toxic cleaners hybrid cars and alternative fuels carbon
offsets, and much more. On the site customers can buy green products
and find local service providers to help them implement these green
home-improvement projects.
“Most Americans now believe that global warming is a real problem, but
they don’t know what they can do in their own lives to try to stop it.
We are very excited to offer an impact calculator that will show
homeowners how much they contribute to global warming, how much water
they use and waste, how much trash they produce—basically their full
environmental impact. And then we recommend a course of action that can
get them to a lower LILI score. We want to take people from
environmental concern to positive action as quickly and as easily as
possible,” said Jason Pelletier, Co-founder of Low Impact Living, Inc.
and the developer of the calculator.
The tool also provides is insight into the economics of green projects.
“Many consumers have no idea that in many states they can get $5,000 in
incentives to put up solar panels, or that they can buy green power
from their utility,” said Jessica Jensen, Co-founder of Low Impact
Living, Inc. “We help consumers understand the costs and incentives for
green projects so that they can take informed environmental action.”
About Low Impact Living.com
Low Impact Living.com is the largest green home improvement site
online. We teach consumers how to make their homes and lives more
eco-friendly, and then help them find the best green products and local
service providers.
SOURCE: Low Impact Living, Inc
CONTACT: For more information please contact
Jessica Jensen
EMAIL: Jessica@lowimpactliving.com
PHONE: (323) 965-9100
FAX (323) 395-0893
Low Impact Living, Inc.
6399 Wilshire Blvd., Suite500, Los Angeles, CA 90048
WEB SITE:
http://www.lowimpactliving.com
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