Ecological Footprint
If you want to calculate your personal ecological footprint, here are two websites to visit:
After investigating my personal ecological footprint I found that I could be better but could be much worse. Below I have my results from the two quizzes, depicting my carbon footprint, food footprint, housing footprint, and goods & services footprint. Amplify your impact by encouraging others to follow your lead. Engage your friends and community with local and global movements for social change, or start your own movement! We can reduce our ecological footprints by:
Reduce your Carbon Footprint
- Use cleaner transport
- Add energy-saving features to your home
- Adopt energy-saving habits
- Reduce your Food Footprint
Reduce your Food Footprint
- Eat more local, organic, in-season foods.
- Plant a garden-it doesn't get more local than that.
- Shop at your local farmer's market or natural foods store. Look for local, in-season foods that haven't traveled long distances to reach you.
- Choose foods with less packaging to reduce waste.
- Eat lower on the food chain-going meatless for just one meal a week can make a difference. Globally, it has been estimated that 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions are associated with meat consumption
Reduce your Housing Footprint
- Choose sustainable building materials, furnishings, and cleaning products
- Adopt water-saving habits
Reduce your Goods and Services Footprint
- Buy less! Replace items only when you really need to.
- Recycle all your paper, glass, aluminum, and plastic. Don't forget electronics!
- Compost food waste for the garden. Garbage that is not contaminated with degradable (biological) waste can be more easily recycled and sorted, and doesn't produce methane gases (a significant greenhouse gas contributor) when stored in a landfill.
- Buy recycled products, particularly those labeled "post-consumer waste."
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