Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
Student Footprints >
What we eat
People should examine the most important factor
of our personal ecological footprint: what we eat.
I haven't eaten meat,eggs or milk for 3 months now.
I drink only water and haven't had sodas for over 10 months.
Animal agriculture is messing over our world.
The animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of all
greenhouse gas emissions.
Only in the United States alone 7 milion pounds of
excrement are produced by animals every minute.
The excrement contains nitrous oxide, which is 296 times more
destructive than carbon dioxide.
Next, water.
Again,in the United States 5% of all water use is domestic.
While 55% goes to the animal agriculture...
It takes 2,400 gallons of water to produce just a single pound of beef.
I think most people aren't aware of such facts but they need to know them.
We should be more informed about how what we eat effects our lives,lives
of other beings, our health and the enviroment.
With the intake of meat how much do you think the United States will have to cut down on the animal intake to have solid positive effect on how much green house gases we are producing? What can people really do to show the impact of the animal agriculture? It is very hard to show the poor effects of what it takes just to make a burger and to make people watch what they eat.