Monday, October 09, 2006

How big is your ecological footprint?

I stumbled across this term surfing from an article about global over-consumption. An ecological footprint is a term used by U.K. organisation Best Foot Forward to indicate an individual's consumption of natural resources. They even put together a simple calculator showing how big your ecological footprint is--given that you live in the U.K. I found the calculator inspiring, and would like to see similar ones for other countries, followed by politicians taking measures to reduce the ecological footprints of their citizens.

The headline leading me onto this track had a link to NEF (New Economics Foundation), which in turn provides links to articles in The Guardian and The Independent.

If you lived in the U.K., would you have a small or large ecological footprint?

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