How Big Is Yours? Mine Is Above Average :(

[Trent]

There is a cool tool for figuring your ecological footprint. Mine is bigger than average :( But I think that is because I live in a rural area and I have to commute by car for miles to go anywhere.

http://ecofoot.org/

If you click the link above it will tell you how many acres it takes to sustain your lifestyle. Mine is 30 (the avg. in the U.S. is 24).

Then take that figure and multiply it by the population of earth (currently about 6,446,131,400) and you'll likely discover most of our lifestyles aren't sustainable.

[moonieblue]

I was 10 acres, so 2.5 planets for everyone to live like me. They got me on the processed foods.

[foot_soldier]

7

If I make the 5,000-mile round trip via air transport to visit family this fall it'll be 8.

[Trent]

A 10 and a 7? Wow. How did I wind up with a 30?

This is really discouraging.

[dewey187]

I'm a 1.4, but I think it's mostly coz I walk, rather than drive a lot and rarely eat processed foods.

[moonieblue]

A 10 and a 7? Wow. How did I wind up with a 30?

This is really discouraging.

Well we always hear the right complaining liberals should live like they preach ,looks like some of us are trying.

[Hooligan]

I got a 21. Below average, but still pretty high compared to others here. Living alone and eating meat daily seems to have added a lot of points to my total, but my transportation accounts for just 0.5 of the total.

[Mr.88]

31

They say if everyone lived like me we would need 7 planets.

And yet there is still a ton of open space on this one.

Given that a large percentage of this world is always going to be sickeningly poor, crammed into digusting filth-holes such as India, I fail to see what the problem is.

[Boomer Chick]

Not a very well-devised questionaire.

They didn't include a question for well water. We have running water, but it's from a well. That should have been included.

A partially alternative energy-equipped home should have been offered as well. The choices were either a regular type of home, multi-complex, or totally green.

Nothing was mentioned in regard to gardening one's own food or recycling gray water.

Cars were mentioned as to gas consumption, but even my little driving which is less than 30 miles per week was not given credit. The categories were too broad.

Recycling waste wasn't even mentioned, just how much waste was, and ours was less than our neighbors but not zero. Because we have a leach field and on property household waste unit, we don't use the city human waste system, which saves energy, but that wasn't mentioned either.

It was a questionaire devised to shock you due to its overly general categories and surface kinds of questions.

We are a 25 in number -- too high to be accurate --- and in the winter we use our fireplace for heat and close off part of the house. Nothing was mentioned in regard to heating sources. Much depends on the climate of your area, too, whether you can live GREEN in the winter, meaning totally passive solar with minimal heating needs.

OH Well.

[dewey189]

Given that a large percentage of this world is always going to be sickeningly poor, crammed into digusting filth-holes such as India, I fail to see what the problem is.

It's self-absorption.

[Mr.88]

It's self-absorption.


We cant all be as saintly as you dewey

[Big D]

I'm a 29!
I think my gas guzzler has a lot to do with it. I'm in the market for something more economical.
Also my meat. I gotta have dead cow and pig...