What's YOUR footprint?

• pofi_pasquale Posted : 3/2/2007 8:22:37 PM Bevo - I got a 36 so I'm nearly as big a planet destroyer as you.   But.  It's mostly my big house and too much processed food. My house is large, but not on a large amount of land - I'm URBAN. And I live 2.5 miles from work and only drive about 50 miles a week. And even though my house is big, I invested heavily in making this behemoth wildly more energy efficient - I put a new roof on, removed and properly disposed of the asbestos siding, wrapped and put foam backed siding on, wrapped all trim instead of replacing, and replaced all 49 windows with double paned, low e, argon filled replacements while filling all cavities with insulation, installed a programmable thermostat and I have reduced this house's energy consumption by....drum roll please....approximately 80%.    To some extent we have to work with what we have and I'm trying!!   I've recycled everything my city will take for 20 years, I made my toilets low flow decades ago by displacing water in the tank with weighted down, water filled juice bottles.  I have used compact flourescents since the days when you had to special order them and they were really not at all compact....I compost. I NEVER water my grass nor have I used any fertilizers other than our compost for years.  I don't fight weeds - what grows in my yard is allowed to grow. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• snownose Posted : 3/2/2007 8:47:24 PM 19 for me, and 4.5 planets........what can I say, I live in the boonies, and I have to drive where ever I go...........   Public transportation would be a laugh out here, the bus would be nearly empty........[8D] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Benedict Posted : 3/3/2007 4:17:18 AM My footprint is 5.  Planets: 2.8.   Kate 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• jeano Posted : 3/3/2007 3:29:59 PM This quiz doesn't address important issues relating to eco-footprint for people in my area. It's for continental US'ers. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• willowchow Posted : 3/3/2007 10:37:39 PM We'd need 12.5 planets if everyone lived like me [&:] I didn't think I was that bad. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• badrap Posted : 3/3/2007 11:30:30 PM i am totally shocked that i got a 17.  i walk absolutely EVERYWHERE.    it's a tradeoff, i think:  i do not drive because i purposely chose to live close to work.  because of this, my envionment is too urban for me to plant my own food.   and, dang it, i LIKE meat[] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• cyclefiend2000 Posted : 3/5/2007 8:37:55 AM this quiz did not take into account the fact that we recycle or whether or not you have a compost heap or any similar things to that. add to that the fact that public transportation is all but non existent where i live, that doesnt really make it an option to use. i got a 20. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Ihearthuskybutts Posted : 3/5/2007 10:02:15 AM This is what i got, assuming that I filled it out right! CATEGORY GLOBAL HECTARES FOOD 1.1 MOBILITY 0.1 SHELTER 0.5 GOODS/SERVICES 0.5 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 2.2 IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 8.8 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. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• fuzzy_dogs_mom Posted : 3/5/2007 3:00:05 PM ORIGINAL: jones I think house size is a big factor - it's the most literal expression of how many acres you use. In fact, I'm surprised there wasn't a question on there about how many acres, besides your house, you own.   Here in the newer (much more expensive) developments, the tendency is to put a huge mansion on a comparatively small lot.  Our lot isn't huge - neither is our house - but some of these very big houses are really close together because the lot is so small. Personally, I'd rather be able to walk between my house and the one next door without turning sideways [] or hearing everything going on in my neighbors' house.   Joyce 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login