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Ecological footprint

Around the middle of last year I checked out my ecological footprint, and discovered that at 3.9, if everyone lived like me we would need two and a half planets to sustain us. I was pretty shocked (thinking of myself as a fairly ecologically cool individual).

My son and I set about improving our record, by using the car less, eating less imported and processed food, turning the heating down, and a few other things. Eight months on, I find that my footprint has gone down - but only to 3.5, and we'd still need 1.9 planets to sustain a world full of people like me. More work required. 
What's your ecological footprint?

Comments

Thanks for the nudge! Checking, we've dropped our footprint very slightly since last year, but not much (probably within experimental error).

Keep up the good work :-)

pax et bonum

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