?calculate your ecological footprint
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 0.7
MOBILITY 0.4
SHELTER 1.8
GOODS/SERVICES 1.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.1
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.3 PLANETS.
Last year, my result was 1.8 planets, so we are getting worse not better. our food has improved, as we buy from farmers markets and local farm store as much as poss, and also grow our own. the car usage up as I live further from work, and use it more days. The shelter also up – as Leeds house more modest.
Chris would do better, using the car less. Our house is somewhat larger than our needs.
Pah! You enjoy your beautiful home! You work hard enough and are away from it enough. Can’t be doing with guilt on top of everything else. You do your bit as do we all but we have to live and we have a certain role to play. If you didn’t work we would be lacking in a vital area etc etc. I gave up guilt years ago and enjoy my life as much as I can. I walk when I can, eat and cook fresh but I adore my house, my holidays and traveling to see friends. I personnaly think it far more important to be a good person and to be a good friend. There are far bigger causes to earths destruction than us and I’m fed up with being told otherwise.
Take in a lodger or two? I can think of some volunteers
1.8 for us.
I agree Ros, I love our house, and not at all abashed by its dreadful ecological footprint!
I am an imperfect ecological woman, what I can do I will, and what I don’t want too…
lodger tempting though Jax
What are the bigger causes other than humans Ros’?
i think ros may have meant that governments and big business concerns hae a much greater impact and much more opportunity to make a meaningful difference?
i will certainly aim to live with a small a footprint as i can, but not in a yurt!
however i would be interested in solar and wind electricity sources – both mine if i can, and local. i aim to buy organic and local what i dont grow. my ‘buying’ i hope will be ethical as poss.
Yeah but governments and big business tend to deliver what their ‘customers’ demand……the only way they will change is if individuals change their demands. I am very ungreen but I don’t suggest that somehow it is not *my* responsibility. If you fly here there and everywhere
you are damaging the enviroment much more than those who live a similar life but don’t.
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