Measure Your Carbon Footprint With Interactive Website

First posted on 11-13-2008

Do Your Part! for ClimateFriendly Parks is a new online program… and the first interactive program in the country that provides national park visitors and supporters with a tool to understand, measure and reduce their carbon footprint and thereby help protect our national parks from global warming.

Individuals logging onto the site are able to measure their carbon footprint by using a calculator co-developed by the Environmental Protection Agency. Visitors to the site can then select actions they pledge to take to reduce their green house gas emissions such as driving less, recycling more, and using energy-efficient appliances. Do Your Part! is sponsored by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) in support of the National Park Service’s Climate Friendly Parks program. The website can be accessed at http://www.nps.gov/climatefriendlyparks/ . For more information, please contact Shawn Norton at 202/354-1835.