Discover - Find your ecological footprint!

Did you know that many of the decisions you make each day affect the world?  Decisions about what food you eat, how you travel, the kind of house you live in, and the garbage you throw out all affect the world we live in.  The effect of our activities on nature is called an ecological footprint.  To keep the world healthy, keeping our ecological footprint as small as possible is important.

Question: How much land and water do you and your family need to live?


Instructions

  • Go to this Ecological Footprints website.

  • Answer the questions as best you can, and click on the arrow on the right hand side to go to the next question.

  • You may need to ask an adult to help with some of the questions help.

  • At the end you will see how many earths we would need if everybody left this same ecological footprint.