Wednesday 3 November 2010

Your Footprint

In some classes today, I mentioned your ecological footprint. This is how many Earths we would need if everyone lived life just like you do. You plug in information about your life, and it tells you your Carbon Footprint, your Food Footprint, your Housing Footprint, and your Goods and Services Footprint, all in a chart. If you're interested in how much energy you use and how much you waste, and how to reduce your footprint to not use up precious resources on our planet, visit this link. You'll have to go through a couple steps to get to the quiz. For distances, you may want to use the distance calculator.

1 comment:

Jed Carosaari said...

Well, took it again- I've gone down! Living here, without regular access to running water, and not having a car, has helped a good deal. I still have the 25,000 miles I've flown this year, which hurts a lot. I'm down to 43.14 acres to sustain me per year, or needing 1.11 Earths if everyone lived as I do. That's down from 1.39 Earths a few months ago, based on life in America.