To begin this blog, we would like to see how we are impacting our environment. Once we have found out the negative effects of our actions on the environment, we can better position our efforts to optimally improve our footprints. As a fun, interactive way to calculate this I have visited a website called http://www.myfootprint.org/ .
This website asks you a series of questions and proceeds to calculate your footprint. In the end you are shown how many earths the population would require is everyone lived like you.
I took this test, and unfortunately found that according to my results we would need about 4 earths to sustain this population!
It also compares your footprint to the average for your country. The areas which I was above, or close to the countries average included housing footprint and food footprint. These areas are where I plan to focus the bulk of my attention. Unfortunately, many aspects of sustainable housing are out of reach for me, as I do live with 5 other people and cannot change many aspects of the house, as well I do not have the ability to purchase things like sustainably made furnishings or water saving appliances.
I look forward to creating challenges to reduce my footprint and hopefully in the end of this, I will re-take the test and find that I have lowered my footprint!
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