Environmental footprint calculator

[snivelingchild]

I scored 2.5 (mostly from housing because we live in my boyfriend's father's huge house, in a smaller residence we would live in once we move out, the score would be 1.7), but my boyfriend's father scored 9.2!!!!!!!!

...and he would complain to me how I was wasting energy because I cooked something once in a toaster oven instead of a microwave, because I refuse to use a microwave. (by the way, it costs about 3 cents more an hour to operate; I found that out incase he ever complained again, I was going to pay him the extra)

[l337_v3g4n_1]

omg! I should have died at 11!

[snivelingchild]

I should die at age 77.

[l337_v3g4n_1]

wait. I did someting, wrong, I should die at 32. Well damn.

[adam antichrist]

god... i should have died at 15...
that's like, 1988!

[Nivvie]

I've been dead for four years. Oh well, not missed much.

[l337_v3g4n_1]

I really need to live a more efficient life, eh?

[FR]

I scored over 200, unfortunately. I did not know how to score myslef on electricity and waste as I would be somewhere between those numbers. Driving a car really made my score higher than I'd like it to be.

[Rhiannon]

I Can live forever apparently My little pig floated up and told me.

[tipsy]

im embarrassed about how poorly i scored!!!

its probably cause i doubled the vacation one and gave myself 130 points....

i fly allot. i swear i try not to! i just go crazy staying in one place for too long!!

[StevieP]

Hi

I've been playing around doing some comparisons between different green lifestyle choices. Some of you might enjoy the results:

http://www.tvvvs.makessense.co.uk/articles/205.html

[foxytina_69]

mine was 2.7. if everyone lived like me, we'd need 1.5 planets.

[Tigerlily]

Some questions weren't fair.

I don't know how big my house is.

We only got public transport last month and it's useless for me to use it since I live close by to everything in my small town.

I don't know how many litres my car takes.

Anyway: 3.7

[foxytina_69]

cant u check none for transit? if u dont use it?

[Tigerlily]

cant u check none for transit? if u dont use it?

Nope, only 0. And that makes it seem like you use a car instead of transport. But I walk!

[foxytina_69]

if u check 0 for each of them, and then yes for walking then it evens out

[StevieP]

The sad thing is, even if you claimed to do nothing and sat in a box all day, every day, you would still consume more than a planet as the structure of the society around you uses up those resources on your behalf. If you are to live below the 1 planet mark you can not live in the West.

It shows that changes most come from government if we are to crack this problem, and the removal of government backing for the meat and dairy industry would be, perhaps, the most important step it could take.

[Lazuli Blue]

Here's mine...

CATEGORYGLOBAL HECTARES
FOOD 0.5
MOBILITY 0
SHELTER 0.7
GOODS/SERVICES 0.4
TOTAL FOOTPRINT1.6

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 5.3 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.


IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 1.0 PLANETS

Seems ok I guess...

[foxytina_69]

i redid it after figuring out the correct answers for some of the questions because before i just assumed. now its 1.9. if everyone lived like me we would need 1.1 planets.

well thats much better.

[foxytina_69]

thats great lazuli!

[Lazuli Blue]

thats great lazuli!

Thanks foxy! Yours is really good too

Oh yeah, I'm apparently going to die at 96!

[Tigerlily]

I did it again but as a crazy meat eater who never takes public transport and uses a gas-guzzling car. It said I would need 30 planets.

[foxytina_69]

[adam antichrist]

I'm also 1.1, down on last estimate now that I have a bike

[Seaside]

I got 137 on this one and the other one was 2.2:


There is also this one, which estimates at what age you should die in order to not use more than your fair share of our planets resources!

Wow, I get to live forever! Trouble is, I'm not sure I want to live on a houseboat when I'm 95.

[adam antichrist]

at least nobody could tell if you were incontinent

[adam antichrist]

I sent the links to my friends and this is one reply:

I got 4.8, which was 2.7 planets, personally I think we need a lot more planets

[Seaside]

at least nobody could tell if you were incontinent

Thppppppppppp!!!!

[eve]

I just did the quiz again, that resulted in total footprint of 2.3. That needs 1.3 planets, but can't think why! I thought I was conservationist.

[eve]

According to the other one which indicates at the age one should die - it indicated that I should have died 30 years ago! Should I put a or a for that?

[Seaside]

To think you've been living on borrowed emissions for the last 30 years eve!

[SpaceMonkey]

Mine's 9. Not too bad considering that the US average is 24.

[pavotrouge]

Mine is 4, all done by the fact that I commute about 30km to work every day... but at least I'm doing it by tram!

[tommytrauma]

i got a nine. but if everyone lived like me we would need 2.1 planets! id like to know what the point one would be. maybe a space colony?

[Melanie]

I got 2.4 Which means we'd need 1.3 planets
~xx

[aubergine]

I got 1.9, and we'd need 1.1 planets

[veganbikerboy]

mines 10.5, we would need 5.8 planets

mine is bad because i live on my own in a largish house, and i drive alot for my job

[antman]

I got 1.9, and we'd need 1.1 planets

Me too

[Enchantress]

I got 2.6. If everyone lived like me we would need 1.4 planets .

[sprite1986]

I got a total footprint of 1.3HA, and just need one planet! Hooraaay.


Although, I live in a house with 5 others, and don't have a car, walk everywherre (not far to walk anywhere..), and completely guessed the size of our house.. so this may have unfairly skewed my results.