Ecological Footprint Quiz

Daculling · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Apr 12, 2005 Posts: 1357

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.
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holmes · Fission Joined: Oct 12, 2004 Posts: 2412

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

TheTurtle · Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

rostov · Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 8:24 am Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

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 Smile

Gives me a thought : wars or painful events reducing population is going to have a chance to hurt the environment as well....
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MrBean · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Sep 26, 2004 Posts: 1144

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.

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OilBurner · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 03, 2004 Posts: 417 Location: UK

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... Shocked

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lateralus · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

I scored an 8 which is below the average of 8.8 for my neck of the woods. Razz

I'm going to go for a drive and throw my styrofoam cups out the window to celebrate. I've got 0.8 to use up.

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rwwff · Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

WooHoo!! Got me a 21!

CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.7
MOBILITY 4
SHELTER 4.2
GOODS/SERVICES 7.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 21

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 4.8 PLANETS.

Tyler_JC · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

I retook the test to factor in my new driving habits...and it got ugly.

I now use 44 acres (9.8 planets).

I honestly don't know why I use so much land.

Ok, I fly to visit my sister in California every now and then. And ok, I eat a lot of packaged foods (I live in Massaschusetts, it's not like we can grow anything over here). And yes, I do have a "big" house. But is 2500sq. ft. really that big?

Surely the quiz can't just end at 2,500sqft. The top third of American homes is over that limit. The quiz doesn't allow people with a 4,000sqft. house to be seperated from the 2500sqft. people.

Also, the quiz should factor in AC usage and # of children.

I consider myself a fairly green individual...but perhaps I should change the adjective...
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jato · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:20 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 5.9

MOBILITY 17.8

SHELTER 3.2

GOODS/SERVICES 19

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 46
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Loki · Expert Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 1079 Location: Cascadia

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 4
MOBILITY 0.7
SHELTER 2.5
GOODS/SERVICES 3

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 10

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 2.3 PLANETS.

Cool, so all we have to do is find 1.3 more planets and I'll be set.

For a more detailed EF test, check out this spreadsheet. You can get a breakdown of every little contribution to your EF. Using this spreadsheet my EF was 11.5 acres.

Tyler_JC · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

gg3 · Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:16 pm Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz

15 acres, compared to average of 24 for US.

3.4 planets.

Now if you take 6.5 billion humans and divide by 3.4 planets, you end up with 1.9 billion humans per planet-equivalent.

I've seen comparisons saying that for a European average standard of living, we would be sustainable at a population level of 2.5 billion. So these numbers are roughly convergent.

Assume powerdown slightly beyond that level, i.e. to an Eastern European average rather than Western European average, and perhaps one planet could support about 3 billion humans. (After all, people in Eastern Europe still manage to eat enough and stay clean...)

Nature's got the solution for us, in the form of a dieoff of about half the population. After that, the rest is easy.

Cran · Posted: Wed Aug 23, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: Re: Ecological Footprint Quiz