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How big is your footprint on the Earth?
How much of the Earth do you require to support your lifestyle? What is your individual ecological footprint? Take this quick quiz and find.
THE FOOTPRINT QUIZ
An ecological footprint is the amount of land and water area required to provide the resources to support consumption and to absorb wastes, given prevailing technology.
A typical North American city with a population of 650,000 would require 30,000 square kilometers of land—an area roughly the size of Vancouver Island, Canada—to meet domestic needs alone without even including the environmental demands of industry. In comparison, a similar size city in India would require 2,800 square kilometers. http://www.gdrc.org/uem/footprints/index.html
The average person in the U.S. uses about 24 acres to support his or her lifestyle, one of the largest Ecological Footprints in the world. Germans have an Ecological Footprint of 13 acres, while countries like India have an Ecological Footprint of 2. By comparison, the average for Sonoma County [CALIFORNIA] residents is 22 acres. http://www.sustainablesonoma.org/key...footprint.html
A total of 7 acres is needed to support my lifestyle (strict vegetarian, environmentalist) and level of consumption. “IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.7 PLANETS.”
I've got some further changes to make in my lifestyle, it seems!
http://www.bestfootforward.com/footprintlife.htm is another version of the quiz takes less than a minute to do
I ran the quiz for a meat-eating person who doesn’t eat organic/local food and drives lots (for them, 22.2 acres are required). If everyone in the World lived like this we would need 7 Planets to support global consumption. SO that is CLEARLY not a sustainable lifestyle!
Tomorrow is the official International Earth Day, but it is true that Earth day is every day.
THE FOOTPRINT QUIZ
An ecological footprint is the amount of land and water area required to provide the resources to support consumption and to absorb wastes, given prevailing technology.
A typical North American city with a population of 650,000 would require 30,000 square kilometers of land—an area roughly the size of Vancouver Island, Canada—to meet domestic needs alone without even including the environmental demands of industry. In comparison, a similar size city in India would require 2,800 square kilometers. http://www.gdrc.org/uem/footprints/index.html
The average person in the U.S. uses about 24 acres to support his or her lifestyle, one of the largest Ecological Footprints in the world. Germans have an Ecological Footprint of 13 acres, while countries like India have an Ecological Footprint of 2. By comparison, the average for Sonoma County [CALIFORNIA] residents is 22 acres. http://www.sustainablesonoma.org/key...footprint.html
A total of 7 acres is needed to support my lifestyle (strict vegetarian, environmentalist) and level of consumption. “IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.7 PLANETS.”
I've got some further changes to make in my lifestyle, it seems!
http://www.bestfootforward.com/footprintlife.htm is another version of the quiz takes less than a minute to do
I ran the quiz for a meat-eating person who doesn’t eat organic/local food and drives lots (for them, 22.2 acres are required). If everyone in the World lived like this we would need 7 Planets to support global consumption. SO that is CLEARLY not a sustainable lifestyle!
Tomorrow is the official International Earth Day, but it is true that Earth day is every day.
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