Comments on: Global Footprint

By: Dino Delellis

Dino Delellis — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:49:30 +0000

This is very interesting , I'll calculate my own footprint and see how large mine is ^^

By: tortdog

tortdog — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 13:54:33 +0000

21 hectacres. We need more than four planets.

Life is good.

By: Hanna

Hanna — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:50:31 +0000

Here’s mine –

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.3
MOBILITY 0.1
SHELTER 0.4
GOODS/SERVICES 0.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.2

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

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

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.2 PLANETS.

Of course, I live in student housing in the Netherlands and take my bike everywhere – once I graduate, and move back to Canada, I can see my footprint getting much larger…

By: mtnnomad

mtnnomad — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:44:36 +0000

I don’t own a car, but I do use the co-op car quite often. I could be more local in my eating habits and shopping(the survey didn’t seem to factor in goods very well, IMO.)

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:30:00 +0000

You’re telling me. Of course chocolate ice cream falls into the major food group because of it’s anti-oxidant qualities. I am such a good nutritionist. :>)

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:08:12 +0000

You eat too much, Larry. :)

By: Larry

Larry — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:25:59 +0000

How are these figures arrived at?

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES

FOOD 4.2

MOBILITY 0.4

SHELTER 1.1

GOODS/SERVICES 1.5

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 7.2

There is so much scaremongering going on these days, I’m surprised the earth hasn’t tilted off it’s axis and everything destroyed. With global warming destroying glaciers…oh wait some glaciers are increasing in size; with temperatures actually falling within the norm over long periods of time;with the world actually behaving like it always has;…we’re doomed.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:12:20 +0000

5.2? You don’t even have a car, and you live in medium-density housing. That’s really weird.

By: mtnnomad

mtnnomad — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:58:50 +0000

CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 1.6
MOBILITY 1.3
SHELTER 0.5
GOODS/SERVICES 1.8

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 5.2

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:46:03 +0000

Must be. Your food rating is more than half of mine. You also walk more places than I do.