MAE 124/ESYS 103:  Week 1 Assignment

How Green Are You?  Computing Your Ecological Footprint and Your Water Footprint


The week 1 homework asks you to compute your ecological footprint using the Redefining Progress web site and your water footprint using the H2O Conserve web site
For further perspective on ecological footprints, please also read the commentary Ecological Footprint 2.0 by Alex Lowe
For further perspective on water, please read about virtual water from the website of the International Year of Fresh Water

If you're curious, you may want to check out the alternate ecological footprint calculator provided by the Global Footprint Network or by Carbon Footprint.  An alternative water footprint calculator is available from the Water Footprint Network web site.

And if you hunt around, perhaps you'll find other ecological footprint and water footprint calculators as well.  Let us know....

There's also plenty of commentary about footprints on the web: