I took the test, and according to https://www.myfootprint.org/, of everyone lived like me, we'd need 8.2 planets "IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 7.6 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON." i'd be interested to hear what other people's results are... m.
I was almost as bad, we would need 7.2 planets if everyone lived like me. The scary part is that I'm one of the LEAST users in my neighborhood! Most of the people around here drive big SUVs, don't grow any of their own food, and are extreme buyers. And, public transportation doesn't exist here, this is basically a bedroom community/poorly-used farmland area. Using a motorscooter means you would probably die soon, as the people here don't know how to drive, but they do it at a high rate of speed! Sue
ok this is how it rated my lifestyle: 4.5 footprint and would need 2.5 planets. ok so now who wants to have the opportunity to live this lifestyle, make me an offer hey len 8) https://members.optusnet.com.au/~gardenlen1
hey! the crazy thing is that i don't think i live outrageously. i don't heat my house - i rug up instead. i ride my bike. i don't drive much at all. i don't eat fast food much at all. i think the factor that killed me was the 100,000 kms of flying i do each year. m.
It *must* be the flying thing Murray, cos i just scored a 4.2 and I buy all my food, packaged/from a great distance, eat meat/dairy/eggs every day, drive alone, in a car, never pushbike/public transport, heat my house which only houses 2 ppl, all the bad, bad things.....but I never fly! What on earth am I doing participating in this forum you ask????????!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: In my defence, I have just (three weeks ago) moved to 2 1/2 acres and am putting in the no-dig vegie gardens recycling the cartons from the move , 40 bags of sheepsh delivered yesterday, 35 bales of pea straw last weekend, collect rain water in tubs, planted and propagating lots and lots of succulents and am propagating native grasses, planted native tree tubestock on our fenceline mulched and watered with the collected water, have ordered my chooks/dairy goat, started a compost heap and continual (rest of my life I reckon) grubbing out of mongrel marshmallow, docks and stinging nettles. So, *when* I am producing my own food, I'll re-do the test and see what it has to say.
2.4 plants for my family. :? only if didn't have to drive to get to the other farm weekly 1000plus a week really adds up. that was a great quiz you found murry. very much enjoyed learning who much we really use up..
hey Len About your place, I'm working on it. Spoke to my real estate agent, showed the wife the photos and have nearly got her convinced. I'll call you in the next day or two to see if it is a realisic option for me. Hang in there mate. cheers derek
g'day derek, that's fine mate if she comes to see it she will like it, it is a very nice peice of dirt if i may say. very pretty block we reckon got lots of scenes and lots of potential. not too far from anything and everything. len
Thanks for the link to the quiz Murray. My total foot print was 4.1, needing 2.4 planets. My down fall is also the amount of traveling I do, public transport to and from a regional area to a major city 5 days a week...but I have an end goal of being locally employed, somewhere down the track in the not too distant future.
I went back a couple of times and changed my info. First, I said I was in America, and did everything as a minimalist product user. Then I said I was in Australia and repeated everything as best I could (the questions are somewhat different), and I still showed a bigger footprint as an American than I did as an Australian. Americans, the big wasters. :cry: Sue
Footprints Well Well Well I was scared at first to take the test then thought i needed a wake up so i took it..... Im 2.5 if only my eating habits were a tad better i might of been in credit
I've been in Tokyo for a while now so I did it according to my lifestyle here: no car, public transport everywhere, small apartment, etc. 1.5 planets and it would have been lower if I didn't factor in the flight here. I guess there's something to be said for compact living and a good public transport system.
2.2. The test's a little rough, though. For example, they ask the frequency we eat meat - it's once or twice a week. But we eat 100 gramme portions. A person who has a 100 gramme portion every day would eat less than someone who has a bistro-standard 350 gramme portion three times a week. A more detailed thing can be found at EPA Victoria's ecological footprint calculator. Or if you just want to download the 600k excel, click here. Even if you don't fill it out, it's interesting just for its default figures, how much the average household spends on booze and stuff :? This survery tells me I use 1.18 Earths. I think that's probably an overestimate, because I actually cook for many other people in my home. I make dinners for people to take for the week. So my food bill is for about 10 people, even though only 2 live here. Also, the survey asks about food consumption in dollar terms. It then figures out the physical amount from that. So it might assume (for example) that meat is $15/kg, so if you bought $30 of meat, that's 2kg. Well, we always buy on special, never more than $6/kg. So when I put in that we bought $30 of meat, it'll assume (for example) that we had 2kg, when in fact we had 6kg. So in this respect it'll underestimate our ecological footprint. Overall, the overestimates and underestimates will probably balance out I think of it more as a qualitative tool than a quantitative one. It's there to show relative positions, so that the bloke in Toorak tooling around alone in his 4WD will realise he consumes more than this bloke down in Oakleigh feeding 10 people. But whether I feed 10 people more efficiently than the old Greek lady next door when she has her family around, it's hard to say. In the grand scheme of things it probably doesn't matter too much; the point is to be aware of our impact on the world. My own impact is less than most, but greater than it could be.
Yeps, I think it's fair to say it's not going to be accurate...though tis still a good tool for helping people to realise the impact they have.
G'day Everyone FOOD 2.6 MOBILITY 0.2 SHELTER 0.9 GOODS/SERVICES 0.8 TOTAL FOOTPRINT 4.5 IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 7.6 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.5 PLANETS. Looking forward to the day when I become vegetarian again. That should knock a hole in the score! Cheerio, Mark.
Total footprint = 3.2 1.8 planets but there is still only ONE planet this'll be an interesting centuary ... when is this kind info (or any decent awareness) going to reech the education system ... some day real soon hopefully
2.8 planets, it's why we moved to Australia (flight). Shure the test is rough but it#s just a play if you want to find out exactly you would sit for hous - I prefer working in my gaarden instead!
