Week 6 Quiz

MAE 124/ESYS 103: Week 6 Quiz

How Green Are You? Computing Your Ecological Footprint

The week 6 quiz asks you to compute your ecological footprint using the Redefining Progress web site:

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.

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

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

WWF: http://www.panda.org/news_facts/publications/living_planet_report/index.cfm
WorldChanging: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/006904.html
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
other commentary: http://pthbb.org/natural/footprint/