[meekoil]

FOOD 4.9

MOBILITY 0.5

SHELTER 7.4

GOODS/SERVICES 5.4

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 18

Got hit on Shelter cause me and the old lady share a 1600 Sq. ft. house.

And how is the GOODS/SERVICES number calculated anyway? From that one question and where you live? Dubious at best.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tinosorb', 'I')f you reproduced 4 times and share your house with your offspring, you get a lower score. You should have a much higher impact if you spawned.

[Tyler_JC]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tinosorb', 'N')ot if you made those kids. Any marginal gains in housing efficiency will be offset by the fact that you created new Westernized consumers, presumably with lifestyles as destructive as your own, or possibly even more destructive.

[turmoil]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('tinosorb', 'N')ot if you made those kids. Any marginal gains in housing efficiency will be offset by the fact that you created new Westernized consumers, presumably with lifestyles as destructive as your own, or possibly even more destructive.

[Blueberry]

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 3.2

MOBILITY 0.7

SHELTER 2.7

GOODS/SERVICES 4

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 11 acres

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

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.4 PLANETS.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('julianj', 'I') know we like this sort of thing here,

Da Da Da! Here's the Ecological Footprint Quiz.

http://www.myfootprint.org/

Find out how much of the earth's resources you are taking up!

I scored 2.1 Hectares, as opposed to the UK's average of 5.3.

I'd be smugly congratulating myself, If I still wasn't overshooting the Earth's capacity of 1.8 Hectares per person by about 20%.

You only need to know what area your dwelling covers, all the rest of the questions are straightforward.

[IslandCrow]

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.4
MOBILITY 0.5
SHELTER 2
GOODS/SERVICES 2.2
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 6.1



IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.4 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

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

Much work still to do! The page did not ask much about heating, which for the cold north is important (I know I have more work in this area). Also having just bought a place I have not yet had a crop from the garden. Feeling depressed --- thought I was further along than it seems I am.

[johnmarkos]

How do they define "biologically productive?" Is farm land biologically productive? Is a tree farm?

Is it possible to use acreage without subtracting from the world's supply of biologically productive land? For example, if they build an oil rig in an already existing parking lot, the land is effectively dual use and they're not removing any new area from the biosphere.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Redefining Progress', 'T')oday, the biosphere has 26.7 billion acres (or 10.8 billion hectares) of biologically productive space corresponding to less than one-quarter of the planet's surface.

[lonewolf]

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[skyemoor]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OilBurner', 'G')ot it down to one planet! :D

Trouble is...had to get a lodger in, everyone has to go vegan, everyone must travel using bicycles or on foot and we have to stop flying.
.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('johnmarkos', 'H')ow do they define "biologically productive?" Is farm land biologically productive? Is a tree farm?

Is it possible to use acreage without subtracting from the world's supply of biologically productive land? For example, if they build an oil rig in an already existing parking lot, the land is effectively dual use and they're not removing any new area from the biosphere.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Redefining Progress', 'T')oday, the biosphere has 26.7 billion acres (or 10.8 billion hectares) of biologically productive space corresponding to less than one-quarter of the planet's surface.

[holmes]

If we kept our fucking breeding rates down to an intelligent advanced level we could do almost anything we wanted and the earth would recycle the waste products and impacts.

I scored a 16.

[Daculling]

I require a lot of acres for my food, guess that's why I need to lose weight... but much better than most Americans.

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 6.9

MOBILITY 1.2

SHELTER 2.7

GOODS/SERVICES 2.7

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 14

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

[holmes]

what got me was my aprtment. I figured this hole i live in would be low. I need to move down to the fucking homeless shanty down by the river.

[TheTurtle]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('holmes', 'I')f we kept our fucking breeding rates down to an intelligent advanced level we could do almost anything we wanted and the earth would recycle the waste products and impacts.

[rostov]

FOOD 1.5
MOBILITY 1.1
SHELTER 0.5
GOODS/SERVICES 1.6
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.7

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.7 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.6 PLANETS.


Time to power down. I wonder what the algorithm for the test is like? Wanna do this with pen and paper in days when there's no longer connection or hosting

Gives me a thought : wars or painful events reducing population is going to have a chance to hurt the environment as well....

[MrBean]

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.1
MOBILITY 0.5
SHELTER 0.8
GOODS/SERVICES 1.5
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 3.9


IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.4 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.2 PLANETS.

[OilBurner]

Bummer. Did this again, and less than 2 years on, I've gotten more resource hungry:


CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.8
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 0.6
GOODS/SERVICES 1.6
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5.5

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 3.1 PLANETS.


Whoops! If the world is a worse place since 2004, it's all my fault...