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🌱 Work Out a Rough Carbon Footprint

Build the calculator you keep rebuilding in a spreadsheet, then put it on a link anyone can use. These prompts turn a formula into a working app: clean inputs, a result people trust, a saved record of every calculation, and an assistant that explains what the number means. Useful on your own desk, and useful in public as the page that brings people to you.
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Customers are starting to ask us for carbon figures and we have nothing. Build me a carbon footprint calculator. Keep emission factors as editable records, each with the activity it applies to, the factor, the unit, the source it came from and the date it was published, so every number can be justified. Let me log activity data such as energy used, business travel by mode and distance, fuel used, waste, and significant purchases. Work out estimated emissions by category and in total, and show which categories are included and which are excluded so the scope is honest. Show this year against last year. Add an AI agent that reviews the result, names the single largest reducible source, and suggests realistic reductions with their approximate effect, in plain language suitable for a tender response. Automate a scheduled monthly reminder to log activity data and an annual report generation. Two logins: a site or department user who logs activity, and an owner who maintains factors and publishes the report. Make clear on the page that this is an estimate, not a certified assessment.

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Work Out a Rough Carbon Footprint

Turn energy, travel, and purchasing activity into an estimated footprint with cited factors and year-on-year comparison.

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Carbon reporting is increasingly asked for in tenders. This produces a defensible estimate from your own activity data, with the factors visible and sourced.

What's Included

  • Activity data in, estimated emissions out using factors you can cite.
  • Factors kept as records with their source and date on each one.
  • Year-on-year comparison which is what anyone asking actually wants.
  • An assistant that names the largest reducible source.

How To Use

  1. Record the source and date of every factor you use. That is what makes it defensible.
  2. Measure activity, not estimates of emissions. The factors do the conversion.
  3. Compare year on year rather than to a benchmark you cannot verify.
  4. Be explicit about what is excluded. Honest scope beats a flattering total.

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