Living green enough? Calculate your ecological footprint in acres |
Loading ...Do you live your life ecological friendly or unfriendly? Until this morning, I’d never taken any test to find out how green I am. Here is my eco footprint:
3 1/2 planets? That doesn’t seem good until reading: “THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.” 24 acres per person?
The test consists of roughly 15 short choose an answer questions and will take a few minutes to complete. How do you compare?
That’s pretty neat. Maybe a little overkill to worry about imo, but interesting to know just the same. Thanks.
Comment by Damien Riley — August 25, 2007 @ 12:13 pm PST
What was your score, Damien? More than 24 acres?
Comment by TDavid — August 25, 2007 @ 1:18 pm PST
CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 2
MOBILITY 0.3
SHELTER 2.7
GOODS/SERVICES 3.1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 8.1
IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.
IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.5 PLANETS.
I have less than half your footprint yet take more planets… but I’m happy to be below Canada’s average.
I took this quiz in May 2004 as well: http://blog.nietha.net/?p=797
Comment by Candice — August 25, 2007 @ 3:06 pm PST
I mean to include “almost” in that “less than half” statement. =P And feel free to edit out the all caps yelling, sorry.
Comment by Candice — August 25, 2007 @ 3:07 pm PST
15, dear God man . . . do you need so many letters in your captchya?
Comment by Damien Riley — August 25, 2007 @ 3:13 pm PST
[…] TD reminded me of the Earth Day Footprint Quiz… I took it back in May 2004, and, sadly, have more of a negative impact on the planet now than I did 3 years ago. I attribute my downslide to living on my own now and travelling ~14km per work day on the bus. […]
Pingback by Ecological Footprint Quiz take 2 - Nietha.net — August 25, 2007 @ 3:24 pm PST
Candice - Hectares?! That darn metric system
Damien - the CAPTCHA requirement goes away after more than 4 comments (you’re halfway there). Hint: you can click the cycle button and get an easier one to read. Also, you’re helping a good cause, see recaptcha, if that’s any consolation.
Comment by TDavid — August 25, 2007 @ 5:52 pm PST
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