What’s your ecological footprint?

November 12, 2007 | Filed Under Do your research!, Inspiring 

Ecological Footprints document a given population’s consumption and waste production expressed in biologically productive land and ocean areas necessary to maintain these services. By aggregating data on the consumption of various resources and on the ability of the earth to provide them, the Ecological Footprint accounts provide a means to compare various components of consumption and ultimately serve as an indicator of sustainability – or, in the case of deficits, of unsustainability.

Mine was 12 compared to the national average of 24.  If everyone lived like me, according to the site, we’d need 2.6 planets.  Guess I still have a lot of work to do.

Find out your footprint and what you can do to lower it at EcoFoot.org.

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