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:
- WWF: http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/living_planet_report/
- Best Foot Forward (professional ecological footprint accounting
tools): http://www.bestfootforward.com/
- Carbon Footprint, Ltd.: http://www.carbonfootprint.com/index.html
- Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_footprint
- web commentary:
http://pthbb.org/natural/footprint/
- Living
Planet Report 2008, from http://www.footprintnetwork.org
- Knudson,
2003, State of Denial, Sacramento Bee, 27 April 2003.
- Wackernagel et al,
2002, Tracking the ecological overshoot of the human economy, Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci., 99, 9266-9271.