This is a cute test to find out the size of your ecological footprint.
I began the test thinking that my footprint would be pretty small. I'm not very much of a consumer, I carpool, and I'm not a world traveler, but still, it would take more than one planet to support a world full of people like me. I'm not proud of that.
So, I begin my journey to figure out how to decrease my ecological footprint so that the next generations can thrive on this big, blue ball.
I tried to do the test but little old UK isn't on there. I remember doing this test somewhere else though.
ReplyDeleteNow I feel bad because I shall be flying in a few weeks' time.
At home I try to walk as much as possible into town, etc, we compost a LOT and buy locally. My daughter works for an environmental charity so we get lots of useful tuition!
Hi Dancing,
ReplyDeleteI apologize for posting one that didn't also work for the U.K. I noticed that it only included the U.S. and Australia, but I was in a hurry at the time and it didn't enter my mind to do some more research.
Another U.S.-centric American...
but I do think that people in the U.K. are better stewards of the earth than we Americans.
My lifestyle requires 4.5 earths; I can reduce it by 2 earths.
ReplyDeleteHey Nick,
ReplyDeleteI think I was around 4, also. And I don't know how to reduce it very much. Okay, I can cancel the class that I'll be taking which will require me to fly three times over the next year (not sure I want to do that and not proud of that fact). I will have to think harder in order to find more ways to reduce. We don't live in a culture that makes it easy to function without cars. And food seems to generally come in some kind of container.