Earth Day Network Footprint Calculator
Questions: 1) How often do you eat animal based products? I almost never eat animal based products because my family are not fans of meat because we think its a bad idea to always eat meat. 2) why do you think its affects your footprint? I think this affects our human footprint because the products are always put in plastic and it takes longer than 500 years for plastic to biodegrade. 3) How much trash do you generate? In my family generates a lot of trash because we have to separate trash cans and one recycle bin. We do produce a lot of trash. 4)What affect does this have on your human foot print? The effect it has on my human footptint is that we tend to throw everything away, and the trash produces methane in the air. 5) Which housing best describes your home? My house is shared between another family because itis a duplex. 6)Why would this make a difference in your impact? This would make a difference in my impact because it will help having a small home because we need less energy and it depends on how much trash we produce with the number of people we have in our home. |
7) Do you have electricity in your home?
YES I have electricity in my home. 8) What are the environmental impacts of electricity? Explain the environmental impacts are that to produce energy you need to burn coal which is bad for the environment. 9) How many people are in your home? 6 people. 10) what is your house made of? My house is made of wood. 11) Which building material is the most energy efficient? The building material that is the most energy efficient is brick and clay. 12)Does anyone of your home's electricity come from renewable sources? Not at all, my family sometime runs their own generator but not all the time. 13)How far do you travel by car each week? I travel by car each week at least one to fifty miles. 14) do you carpool or do anything to reduce your impact? Most of the time everyone goes to very similar places so we try to use one car at the most but when its necessary we all use our cars but most of the time we just use the van and do carpool. 15)do you ride a motorcycle? No i don't use a motorcycle my parents don't allow it. |
16) What is the gas milage in your car/motorcycle?
i dont usually look at that and i don't ride a motorbike.
17)How often do you drive with someone else?
I always drive with someone else most of my siblings can drive but we all go in the same car to school every morning.
18) How far do you travel by bus/train each week?
I never try to ride the bus and i always try my best to walk very where but if i have to it will be once or twice a week.
19) How many hours do you fly each year?
Never, i have never been on a airplane.
i dont usually look at that and i don't ride a motorbike.
17)How often do you drive with someone else?
I always drive with someone else most of my siblings can drive but we all go in the same car to school every morning.
18) How far do you travel by bus/train each week?
I never try to ride the bus and i always try my best to walk very where but if i have to it will be once or twice a week.
19) How many hours do you fly each year?
Never, i have never been on a airplane.
Edit your Footprint by making CHANGES to your lifestyle. List the changes you have made to your lifestyle below and the impact it had on your ecological footprint.
changes made:
1) Reduce the amount of animal products i eat by half
2) Buy products that use less packaging >>>>>> recycled material
3) use solar panels instead
4) all my appliances energy efficient
5) use public transportation >>>>>> one more day each week
changes made:
1) Reduce the amount of animal products i eat by half
2) Buy products that use less packaging >>>>>> recycled material
3) use solar panels instead
4) all my appliances energy efficient
5) use public transportation >>>>>> one more day each week
Impact on my ecological Footprint : ( draw out new results based on the changes made)
Reflect on what you learned by doing this activity
I think from this i learned that we need to pay attention to our food products what we do everyday what we eat because they all have an impact on the world. We need to learn that changes are not just made if someone does not act upon it we are all her for some times and we need to strive to make this time a very environmental time of change.
I think from this i learned that we need to pay attention to our food products what we do everyday what we eat because they all have an impact on the world. We need to learn that changes are not just made if someone does not act upon it we are all her for some times and we need to strive to make this time a very environmental time of change.