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Your Ecological Footprint

By Hayden | Permalink | 1 comment | February 5th, 2007 | Trackback

Recently we have started to hear about our ecological footprint and ways we are either increasing or decreasing our effect on the environment by how we live our daily lives. For instance driving a car to work every day increases your ecological footprint. On the flip side biking to work everyday decreases your footprint. These two examples are pretty well known and people have either made the decision to bike or drive and go on living without realizing what their contribution is to impacting the environment.

I didn’t know what mine was until a few minutes ago. According to the Ecological Footprint Quiz I am using up 14 acres for my lifestyle. 14 acres means that for all the humans to live on the planet as I do there would need to be 3.1 planets to go around. As an American I actually use well below the average of 24 acres per person. Yeah me. I could probably decrease my result more if I wasn’t a meat eater, but it is just so damn tasty I can’t help myself. Check out the link above and see how you are doing. Hopefully we are not all using 24 acres.

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