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Personal Footprint
How much land area does it take to support your lifestyle? Take this quiz to find out your Ecological Footprint, discover your biggest areas of resource consumption, and learn what you can do to tread more lightly on the earth.
Ecological Footprint
The Ecological Footprint of an activity tries to measure its consumption of natural resources and the amount of biologically productive land and sea needed to regenerate those resources and to absorb and render harmless the waste that is produced.
Carbon Footprint
A Carbon Footprint, also called Carbon Profile, is an LCA with the analysis limited to emissions that have an effect on climate change (carbon dioxide, methane, etc.). This limitation makes it easier to apply the calculation to integrated systems, such as an entire house or automobile.
Grist.org
Want to know more about current environmental issues and how you can take action? Check out Grist.org, one of our favorite sources for enviro news. Grist.org is the country’s leading source for environmental news and commentary, served up with a touch of humor. Grist features in-depth reporting, feisty opinions, sage advice, cutting-edge arts and culture reviews, and more.
Sustainability
Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the ability to maintain a certain process or state. It is now most frequently used in connection with biological and human systems. In an ecological context, sustainability can be defined as the ability of an ecosystem to maintain ecological processes, functions, biodiversity and productivity into the future.
