Project Neutral
Project Neutral is a carbon calculating, community climate action tool. The online platform provides personalized insights and actions to help residents reduce their household carbon footprint and join the shift to a clean growth economy.
What is Project Neutral?
Project Neutral, a project of MakeWay, allows you to calculate the carbon emissions associated with your lifestyle, including home energy, daily transportation, travel, food, and waste. Reep Green Solutions brought Project Neutral to the Waterloo Region in 2018.
What is the Project Neutral Model?
Measure
Discover your carbon footprint in five minutes to see your climate impact.
Act
Choose a personalized action and start having a positive impact today.
Connect
Join the Project Neutral community online and in Waterloo Region.
How Can You Make a Difference?
- Measure your carbon using the online carbon calculating tool. It only takes 5 minutes!
- Directly reduce your greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through energy saving home improvements and active, healthy habits which the tool will guide you through. Check out our Sustainable Living Blog for ideas.
- Share your low-carbon lifestyle with friends and neighbours. Share on social media and with your neighbours, family and friends. Are you interested in becoming an ambassador to your community, organization or neighbourhood? Let us know at [email protected]
Support this project with a donation to help bring make climate action more accessible for our entire community.
How Can I Get Involved?
School Resources
Using Project Neutral, students will discover their household carbon footprint and see how they compare to a Group Dashboard with the aggregate results of their class or school.
This data brings the climate crisis down to an approachable, human level and acts as a powerful prompt to begin reconsidering daily life and what low carbon alternatives already exist.
Innovative Research to Reveal Project Neutral’s Impact on Lowering Carbon Footprints | News Release
Building on the success of the Project Neutral tool in Waterloo Region, Reep Green Solutions and University of Waterloo will research the impact of the
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