Reference no: EM133192569 , Length: Word count: 350 words
Assignment Problem: Calculating Your Ecological Footprint
Ecological Footprint:
As a way to understand our individual roles in affecting the environment, it is important to reflect on our daily life practices and usages, so please go to the following site and take the quiz to calculate your personal footprint.
Also there would be options to add details to improve your answer accuracy, so I would suggest answering them to have a clearer picture. When you take the quiz note down your answers, or if you have thoughts about any particular questions. After you finish the quiz, you are given a variety of options to decrease your footprint. I encourage you to follow one or more scenarios and also record those figures. After completing the quiz, please make sure that your essay has these following points.
Q1. What was your overall footprint (i.e. how many worlds) for your original calculation? Did this surprise you? Why or why not?
Q2. What was the top economic sector impacting your footprint (i.e. the graph to the right of the world number)? What was the bottom (the least)? From the figures given in these graphs, what do you think are one or two habits/practices of yours that had the greatest impact on your footprint?
Q3. Did you follow any scenarios for lessening your footprint? If so, what were they and how much did it decrease? Did this figure surprise you?