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(Message started by: sandie99 on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:25pm)

Title: Your footprint
Post by sandie99 on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:25pm

Check this out!

http://www.myfootprint.org/

How did you do?

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by guesst on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:28pm

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 5.7

MOBILITY 7.4

SHELTER 12.8

GOODS/SERVICES 18.3

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 44

edit to add, You know what they say about guys with big feet.......... ;;D

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Gena on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:33pm

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 5.2

MOBILITY 0.5

SHELTER 3

GOODS/SERVICES 3.2

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 12

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.7 PLANETS.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Sylvan on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:40pm

FOOD 3.5

MOBILITY 2.7

SHELTER 6.2

GOODS/SERVICES 5.9

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 18

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by seasonalboomer on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:40pm

Here's my score......
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.4
MOBILITY 3.7
SHELTER 13.6
GOODS/SERVICES 11.9
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 35

oops, sorry for taking everyone else's acreage.
the site seems kind of whiny to me, you do the whole scoring thing to find out, "you suck, you capitalist, suv driving, selfish, polluting, processed food eating, pig -- oh but would you like to donate to the cause of making other capitalist, suv driving, selfish, polluting, processed food eating, pigs feel worse."

Or did I just take it too personally?

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Hirvimaki on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:41pm

I'm so happy I live in a mud hut.

If everyone lived like me, at least the world would be funnier...

Hirvimaki-I-comsume-Isi

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by echo on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:41pm

Food 4.9
Mobility 4.4
Shelter 8.4
Goods / Services 11.6
Total 29

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Gator on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:52pm

Anybody got a spare planet I can borrow?

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 6.2
MOBILITY 4.9
SHELTER 5.2
GOODS/SERVICES 9.1
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 25

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 5.7 PLANETS.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by ExplodingEyeBall on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 3:56pm

Total acreage = as much as I need to piss off the tree huggers that created this web site and this test.

I think I'll go cruising around in my new gass guzzling SUV by myself tonight and see how much processed food I can find that will create the biggest amount of waste. I'll leave the water running and the lights on while I'm gone.

24 acres.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by don on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 4:52pm

We will need 6.8 planets

The .8 one is mine all mine!

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Donna_D. on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 5:59pm

Not TOO bad I guess....

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 6.9
MOBILITY 1
SHELTER 3.5
GOODS/SERVICES 4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 15

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.4 PLANETS.

Well, all I can say is I do my part to help the environment. I help produce lots of shade decreasing global warming!

[smiley=girlflash.gif]

DD

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Sylvan on Mar 22^nd, 2005, 7:25pm

Well .. if i lived in a tent with no water in the outback of Austrailia, was a vegan who grew all my own food, either walked or rode a bicycle everywhere, and had 7 people living in the tent with me i'd be in line with the 1 planet ideal:

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 0.4

MOBILITY 0

SHELTER 0.3

GOODS/SERVICES 0.2

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 0.9

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by sandie99 on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 12:25am

If everybody would live like me... we'd need 1.5 planets...

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Charlie on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 1:18am

Shit. I didn't write down everything. All I know is that if everybody lived like me, we'd need 6 planets.

My total footprint is 27

Okey dokey.

Charlie http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/eatturkey.gif

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by zrmulcahy on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 2:52am

hmmm...I don't know if I buy all their assumptions...
"
Ecological Footprint calculations are based on five assumptions:
1. It is possible to keep track of most of the resources people consume and many of the wastes people generate. Much of that information can be found in existing official statistics.
2. Most of these resource and waste flows can be converted into the biologically productive area that is required to maintain these flows.
3. These different areas can be expressed in the same unit (hectares or acres) once they are scaled proportionally to their biomass productivity. In other words, each particular acre can be translated to an equivalent area of world-average land productivity.
4. Since these areas stand for mutually exclusive uses, and each standardized acre represents the same amount of biomass productivity, they can be added up to a total—a total representing humanity's demand.
5. This area for total human demand can be compared with nature's supply of ecological services, since it is also possible to assess the area on the planet that is biologically productive.
"

Does it really take 5 acres of land to feed little Zach (and only Zach) for a year? I suppose it's possible. I'm not a very good farmer.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by totka2 on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 6:32am

1.2 / 0.2 / 1 / 1.8 // total 4.2

am I an outlaw ?

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Bethany1 on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 7:41am

Yikes:

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 4.2

MOBILITY 0.7

SHELTER 6.7

GOODS/SERVICES 6.7

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 18

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.1 PLANETS.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by PerryGR on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 8:12am

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.1

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.1 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.7 PLANETS.

PFDAN to all,
Perry.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by Hirvimaki on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 9:41am

Unlike you capitalist world oppressors, I decided to change my life. By moving my family (3 of us) into a 500 sq. ft. hut with no electricity, eating no meat or other animal products whatsoever and only consuming organically, locally grown grown food (the scurvy and near-starvation occasionally gets annoying at times), walking everywhere, never driving or flying, I was shocked to find that I still rate 1.1 planets.

Just for giggles, after I received the wonderful score of "IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.4 PLANETS.", I decided to enter the same info, but change my country from America to Nigeria and I got a score of "IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2 PLANETS." I guess I should feel bad for being an American...

Actually, I am proud of how many people I put to work through my consumption. It's my little part in the war on poverty.

I wonder how much of the earth's precious resources the eco-freak is using to keep that web site going?

Hirvimaki-I-still-consume-Isi

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by john_d on Mar 23^rd, 2005, 9:49pm

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 5.9

MOBILITY 14.3

SHELTER 20.3

GOODS/SERVICES 31.4

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 72

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

That sounds bad. Whatever, I live alone in a house, I have a long commute and I have to fly alot for work. ::) It's called being an engineer.

Fun quiz though.

Title: Re: Your footprint
Post by sandie99 on Mar 24^th, 2005, 1:32am

This is interesting... If I'd be American, living like me would need 1.3 planets!