Ecological footprint

For every kind of energy or matter we consume to maintain our lifestyles, some natural resource, somewhere, gets used up, and waste is produced. The city is an ecosystem, with inputs in the form of land, water, energy, food and materials from the hinterland which, after being utilised, become waste, the output.

The Ecological Footprint is a measure of the load imposed by a particular population or economy on nature. It represents the land (and water) area necessary to sustain current levels of resource consumption and waste discharge by that population. It is an accounting tool that allows us to estimate the resource consumption and waste assimilation requirements of a particular human population or economy in terms of corresponding productive land area.

My Ecological Footprint was:

Food 0.3
Mobility 0.3
Shelter 0.6
Goods/Services 0.2
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Total footprint 1.5

Please make a visit at www.myfootprint.org.. to calculate ur ecological footprints and read the comments!!
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