At the end of September, a continent away, nearly 80 students at the Uruguayan American School UAS in Montevideo, Uruguay, calculated their personal Ecological Footprints as part of their high school science curriculum.
Students reflected on the driving factors behind the wide range of personal footprints and Overshoot Dates among their peers. Department of Energy lesson plan. He was referring to Earth Overshoot Day , the date on the calendar when the global population has used all the resources our planet can regenerate in the whole year, and the idea that living in overshoot is akin to incurring credit card debt.
The new version of the calculator lets users calculate their own personal Overshoot Day in addition to their Ecological Footprint; a date before Earth Overshoot Day August 2 means a user demands more natural resources than the global average. But the key was putting our hands on the updated Earth Overshoot Day calendar of the past decades. From there, we were able to establish the progression pattern of the date, including the recent slowdown.
We also considered recent events like the drought in California. In the end, we concluded that moving the date one day earlier from felt about right. Rain Rain Go Away?
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Find Out Here. The Downstream Project is. This unfortunately meant I was 3,5 months ahead of the global average. I could not have been more wrong about my footprint behavior, thinking I was on the right track!
From the first of January of , I started taking steps everyday to reduce my ecological footprint. That lowered my footprint in and from 3.
It made me happy to see that little changes in my lifestyle already can have a big impact! I saved 1. However, I am still not there yet. The fun of the Global Footprint Calculator is that you can play around with the numbers. For example, if I would cut out the remaining meat and dairy, that would push my Personal Overshoot Day with 10 days. My biggest footprint challenge is… flying. My hubbie is from Argentina, which means that we have all his family and a lot of friends on the other side of the ocean.
With that in mind, if I fill out the calculator, my Personal Overshoot Day takes an impressive jump to November 26th, and we would need 1. Flying really is a pain-in-the-butt for the environment. I can easily give up stuff, as I already proved to myself by not buying any clothes for more than a year. But to never see my Argentinean friends and family in law again or my Dutch family and friends if we decide to live in Argentina? That would be too radical for me.
It is just something I cannot do. There are several initiatives that offset your carbon footprint for a flight, such as planting bamboo.
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