Tuesday, February 9, 2010

How big's your footprint?

(picture taken from google images)
You often hear about people saying that as we leave the earth, we put our imprints on it. It is like the process of stamping so to know that you've been there. In its essence, you leave behind something to the earth by the lives you have touched, the things you have accomplished, etc.

In the world of environmental science, our imprints are our so-called ecological footprints. The Global Footprint Network indicates that the national per person Footprint can be allocated to different 


end-use categories (food, shelter, mobility, goods and services), and land types (forest, cropland, energy, fish, grazing land).

There's a personal footprint calculator that actually tells you how much you've used in terms of the conditions mentioned above. The Footprint Calculator works like a survey questionnaire where all your answers will have corresponding numeric values that would affect how much footprint you have.

If you want to know your personal ecological footprint, click on this.

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