What is your ecological footprint?

[horsemom]

Take this quiz:

http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

[emily_in_nc]

Not good at all...and here I thought we were doing better than average (except for my admittedly long drive to work):

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 4.7
MOBILITY 5.7
SHELTER 9.4
GOODS/SERVICES 10.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 30

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 6.8 PLANETS.



Emily

[Pax]

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 2.5

MOBILITY 1

SHELTER 4.4

GOODS/SERVICES 3.7

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 12

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 2.6 PLANETS.
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Well crap.

[snapdragen]

Category Acres

Food 4.2

Mobility 1

Shelter 6.4

Goods/services 6.7

Total Footprint 18

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 4.1 Planets.

[Trek420]

If Everyone Lived Like Me, We Would Need 4.7 Planets.

[LBTC]

Apparently I am completely average using 8.8 hectares And we'd need 4.9 planets. I should have counted the dogs and cats as people in the house - I bet that would help! Can we count the bikes as people, too? heehee

Hugs and butterflies,
~T~

[kiwi girl]

two of the questions related to car use - but didn't have the "I don't have a car" option that I needed

[RoadRaven]

I thought I did better than these results show - for example, I have about the same ammount of waste as others, but about 4/5 of our rubbish is recyled...

We also "grow" our own meat and milk... doesn't that count for something too?

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 3.1

MOBILITY 0.3

SHELTER 0.3

GOODS/SERVICES 0.6

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.3



IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.7 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.




IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.4 PLANETS.

[light_sabe_r]

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.6
MOBILITY 0.5
SHELTER 1.3
GOODS/SERVICES 1.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.8

I don't think this is right. I mean I use my car once per weekend (usually to get to Tris ) and only use my bike during the week, I shop at the local green flea markets and our Recycling bin is OVERFLOWING compared to our garbage. PLUS our water restictions are so tight we're timing our showers.

they ask nothing about water.

[7rider]

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.4
MOBILITY 1
SHELTER 9.4
GOODS/SERVICES 7.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 23

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 5.2 PLANETS.

Hopelessly average.
Somehow, this seems very simplistic, but interesting nonetheless.

[Bron]

Total footprint 5.6, average for Germany 4.7. Hmm, food for thought there.

I think it is easier for people to be green over here when there is already a good infrastructure for it - for instance the closest tram stop is about 200m from my front door, so I never use the car to get to work (anyway, I'm scared of our car).

Bron

[margo49]

two of the questions related to car use - but didn't have the "I don't have a car" option that I needed

Me too, and also did not include the unofficial multi-person point to point mini-bus /taxi's we have here.
We are vego's and have a small house and 4 out of the 5 of us are busy and work on our kibbutz so don't go many places. And the other 1 is DS#1 who is in the army so that he is not living extravagantly or individualistically and travels on leave by bus and train. (And isn't killing or oppressing people personally (*yet*))
So how come we are so broke?!

But it came out ok

Food - 0.8
Mobility - 0.1
Shelter - 0.4
goods and services - 0.4

total = 1.7
need 1.0 planets

[Pax]

Me too, and also did not include the unofficial multi-person point to point mini-bus /taxi's we have here.
We are vego's and have a small house and all 5 of us are busy and all 5 of us work on our kibbutz so don't go many places.
So how come we are so broke?!

But it came out ok

Food - 0.8
Mobility - 0.1
Shelter - 0.4
goods and services - 0.4

total = 1.7
need 1.0 planets

Way to go Margo!

[Blueberry]

Wow Margo! Very cool

Guess we could stand to learn a few lessons

[Blueberry]

Mine's bad too:

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 4
MOBILITY 4.9
SHELTER 7.4
GOODS/SERVICES 8.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 25

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 5.6 PLANETS.

What's interesting is my commute doesn't seem to be what's nailing me - it's eating any animal product and shelter/goods services (how do they calculate that anyway?!)

Back to the drawing board on trying to be better