Milwaukee, WI (PRWEB) May 13, 2009
Engage customers and the community in your organization's sustainability initiatives by offering an online Carbon Calculator on your web site. The calculator, powered by Eco Hatchery, is available in free and fully embedded, subscription formats.
"The Carbon Calculator is a valuable tool for tracking aggregate energy and CO2 savings in your community, boosting site traffic, and supporting complementary sustainability programs," said Eco Hatchery president Adam Borut.
The calculator enables members of your community to save their carbon footprint result and test various scenarios to see how changes in lifestyle can affect the outcome. They also can compare their carbon footprint to community and national averages.
KEY FEATURES
Individual & Household Carbon Footprint Calculation: The online calculator is easy to use and educational. Users measure their carbon footprint resulting from daily activities such as household energy use, commuting, travel, recycling, and diet.
Aggregate Community Footprint: Users can work with others toward a shared environmental goal by joining your organization's online community and seeing how their individual actions impact the group result. Communities may be any size, for example: a neighborhood, employee or customer base, congregation, school, department, or county.
FREE & SUBSRIPTION OPTIONS
Free ~ Carbon Calculator banner with hyperlink to your co-branded community: Visitors to your web site can access the Carbon Calculator by clicking on a web banner which links to your co-branded community residing on the Eco Hatchery web site.
Subscription ~ Fully embedded Carbon Calculator on your web site:Powered by Eco Hatchery, the Carbon Calculator resides on your web site and automatically receives technical and data updates. The embedded calculator can link to specified Carbon Offsets programs offered by your organization. This option is available at an initial set-up fee of $2,000 and $500/year starting year 2.*
To calculate your carbon footprint, please visit: http://www.ecohatchery.com/calculator.
About Eco Hatchery: Milwaukee-based Eco Hatchery offers energy-saving toolkits and web-based tools for tracking the environmental, energy and financial savings of individual households and entire communities. The flagship Eco Starter Kit helps a typical U.S. household lower utility bills by $260 per year, save 7,000 gallons of water, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2.5 tons. More information at: http://www.ecohathcery.com
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