The ecological footprint is a measure of the lood impose by a given population an nature. It represent the land are necessary to sustain current levels of resource consumption and waste disharge by that population.
My ecological footprint is 3.1 because i eat meat very often and i usually take the train to go to school and to go around the city. mostly when i get around i dont use much energy.
CATEGORY ACRES
FOOD 5.4
MOBILITY 1.5
SHELTER 3
GOODS/SERVICES 4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT 14
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 ME, WE WOULD NEED 3.1 PLANETS.
Our College Now workshop on the ecology of the City - Kingsborough Community College, Fall 2006
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Course description
The Nature of New York: healing our city’s ecology.
An intensive, 4 week introductory workshop in urban ecology, eco-design and sustainable entrepreneurship, College Now, Kbcc, October – November 2006
Includes field trips to Inwood Park, Downtown and NYC Harbor, East Village Community gardens, Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and Mt Loretto Sanctuary, Staten island.
Syllabus: http://nnyn.org/videos/videos/NONY%20syllabus.pdf