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Friday

Take the Eco-Footprint Quiz

Posted by vergelimbo On 4:50 AM 8 comments

Measure your current consumption habits and their demand on the environment.

The Eco-Footprint Quiz is a quick, private online test that will yield provocative and insightful results based on your responses to 15 questions. Your environmental impact [or eco-footprint] is calculated and expressed in terms of the number of acres that are required to sustain your current level of consumption.


The results will appear in a graphic table [my results below]

So, while my "Total Footprint" [17 acres] is below the US average of 24, neither score is anywhere near sustainable as worldwide there are only 4.5 biologically productive acres per person.



Please leave me a comment below with your results

8 comments:

Cool A very well written and smart blogpage saw it in the journal and checked it out
I took the quiz and got a figgin 21!
what up with that? I'm green, sort of mostly lol

great pictures of the garden! you must have a big green thumb

Brian

I got a 19...ouch. However the arrival of the motorcycle and more bicycle brings me down to 14-15. The continued direction in green diet brings me down to 13. I was surprised to see that my footprint was comprised almost entirely of housing.

This quiz is super neat!

I got a 6, but that may also be because I am poor and hungry :). It also helps when you've got everything you need within 1 mile of your residence and you're in a bicycle gang.

Hi Phil,

I scored a 10 but that seems easy when one considers that I live alone and live within a mile from work. I look forward to seeing your garden later this morning.

wow, I got a 22. Most of my points came from the fact that I live alone in a freestanding (and sort of enormous, for one person) house with indoor plumbing and electricity. Never mind that I have no car and all that.

12
And I can't BELIEVE I don't get extra points for bringing my own mug to Starbucks.

stinky jose'exclaimed, "16! I beat you, and that's all that really matters.ha!"

Okay, I suck! My score was a whopping 39! Even though I live in a tiny house all by myself and recycle religously, it would take 8 planets to sustain me! So I guess the rest of you people better get off my rock and get busy finding 7 more just like it! Sheesh! Thank you for this shocking link....now I will slither away and try and remedy this situation!

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