Eye-Opener Ecological Footprint

Ecological footprint is how much resources our lifestyle uses. I never heard about the this footprint before these readings and it is an eye opener to how much of resources you use. Both reading the wikipedia search of ecological footprint and redefining progress made me think of new ways to help our environment and global warming.

I took three different quizzes two with the out come of my ecological footprint as a whole and one with my travel calculator. The first quiz was at http://www.earthday.net/footprint/flash.html it said I would use 4.4 earths, 19.4 global areas with the most in energy and forest land. Then it broke up my footprint into different categories like services, goods, mobility, shelter and food, with my services being the highest of 45%. Looking at this footprint makes me re-think that I am not being very eco-friendly. The second quiz I took was at http://myfootprint.org/en/about_the_quiz/what_it_measures this one said that I would use only 1.50 earths. Also my per capita foot print is 23.47 total of food, housing, goods and services. The last quiz I took was my travel calculator, it asked what kind of car you drive, how many passengers and the places you go like work, school, home, etc. My total carbon dioxide was 1.45 less then average and it said overall that my travel was better than average! I do try to not use my car as much and always car pool with people for long distance travel.

Taking these quizzes defiantly makes me think of how I need to change my ways to help our earth and not hurt it!