Sustainable Publishing Tools

The Sustainable Publishing Tools are two free-to-use carbon calculators designed specifically for publishing industry professionals. The Book Carbon Footprint Calculator quantifies cradle-to-warehouse carbon emissions of a printed book and can be used to compare key carbon emissions sources in book production. The Publisher’s Carbon Footprint Calculator quantifies the organizational carbon footprint of a publishing house. Each tool may be used independently, although you’ll get the most accurate results using them together. These tools may be downloaded by one person per publishing house.

The Sustainable Publishing Tools emerged from collaboration between New Society Publishers and ECW Press, was designed by Ian Lipton at the Carbon Accounting Company in Toronto, and was funded by the Canada Council for the Arts through the Digital Greenhouse grant. French translations of the tools (available soon) are courtesy of BTLF (La Société de gestion de la banque de titres de langue française).

Get the tools

To receive a copy of the tools along with their user manuals, please fill out the registration below.

Learn how to use the tools

In this training session, Julie Raddysh, publisher of New Society, walks through the Book Carbon Calculator tool and shows how this data can then be used in the Publisher's Carbon Footprint Calculator. Jen Knoch and EJ Hurst, who developed the tools, provide background information and answer more detailed questions about the tools and how to use them.

For all inquiries about the tools, please email sustainability@ecwpress.com.