EcoFoot Footprint Calculator
The Global Footprint Network established a Ecological Footprint calculator at EcoFoot.com. This interesting calculator allows you to step through various aspects of your life to determine what your ecological footprint is.
A person’s footprint can be determined by several factors included food, shelter, mobility, goods and services and various land types. The calculator asks each person a variety of questions based on each of these factors. Based on the answer as compared to national averages, your footprint can be determine. Each question goes in depth to every aspect of life, ranging from your daily driving habits to how much renewable energy you use.
What separates this calculator from other footprint calculators is that it calculates your EcoLogical Footprint that is based off international standards established in 2006. It takes into account the land aspect of each item that goes into normally calculating our footprint. So it takes into the land that has to support the manufacturing plant, any waste that the plant produces and the energy to get it to you.
Give this calculator a try out. It’s not perfect, as with most calculators, but it’s interesting to see how many planets required if everybody on earth lived the same lifestyle as you.
Comments
This is pretty cool! Some of the questions were hard to answer though, as I just plain didn’t know.. Apparently if everyone lived like me they would need 3.6 Planet Earths to provide enough resources.
Till then,
Jean
I like the Ecological Footprint calculator that you reference because it is more sophisticated and let’s you “dive deep” to provide more detail. I’m sure there are lots of other calculators out there, but I haven’t run into any online yet.
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I want to take advantage of environmental calculator. For the first time I hear of such a calculator. Although I doubt that the result can be considered a 100% objective.
Its awesome!I have never came across such a calculator…its interesting to find out what will it be like if everybody on earth lived the same lifestyle as me.
Someone should make a calculator that calculates the footprint for non eco-friendly web hosting. I can’t imagine the amount of energy that needs to be utilized to power an entire datacenter filled with racks and racks of power-hungry servers.