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Measure your ecological footprint with Earth Day Network’s new calculator
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The path to a sustainable future is filled with tiny (carbon) footprints, and Earth Day Network has just released its newest tool to help you shrink yours: the new, updated, and much more fun Ecological Footprint Calculator.

The Calculator, created by Global Footprint Network, provides users with a three-dimensional avatar of their choosing, and situates them on a block in a virtual neighborhood. The user is then taken through a series of questions about her food consumption, energy use, favorite mode of transportation, type of residence, recycling commitment, and spending habits. Using a scroll bar, users can approximate their usage with pithy sayings like, “I’m a farmer’s market friend but I really like potato chips,” indicating, in this case, that she eats local foods often-- but not always.

The Footprint Calculator will tell you how many “planets” would be necessary to sustain human life- if everyone lived just like you, in addition to how many acres of land and tons of carbon necessary to sustain your lifestyle.

Try-er beware: after analyzing your unique lifestyle, the Calculator gives great, constructive advice on easy ways to green up. Want a second chance? No worries: you can revisit your quiz to see where you “went wrong”, and find out how to reduce your carbon footprint. No need to tip-toe around environmental issues when starting to shrink your footprint is as easy as taking a quiz.

www.earthday.net/ecofootprint

August 26, 2008 | 11:53 AM Comments  0 comments

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