Tuesday, August 31, 2010

#6 Activiy: Your Ecological Footprint

Please report your result on the Ecological Footprint Calculators
(http://www.myfootprint.org/en/visitor_information/)

1. Please report your result of the ecological footprint on the following link
Result of Ecological Footprint

2. What does the Ecological Footprint mean?
Group discussion: group of 2-3, report your findings using the comment function below. Please also include the names of group members.

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  2. The ecological footprint is a broad measure of resource use which highlights where consumption is exceeding environmental limits.

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  4. An ecological footpring means a measure of how much biologically productive land and water area an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices

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  5. The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.

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  6. A representation of the effect human activities have on the climate in terms of the total amount of greenhouse gases produced (measured in units of carbon dioxide).

    Jannie Jackson

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  7. Ecological footprints are measures of how much biologically productive land and water area an individual, population or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices.

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  8. is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate. It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a human population consumes and to absorb and render harmless the corresponding waste

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  9. The ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the earth's ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet earth 's ecological capacity to regenerate.

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  10. The Ecological Footprint is defined as "the area of productive land and water ecosystems required to produce the resources that the population consumes and assimilate the wastes that the population produces, wherever on Earth the land and water is located."

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  11. An ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the earth's ecosystems. An ecological footprint compares human demands to an ecosystems capacity to regenerate. Methods to measure an ecological footprint vary. An ecological footprint is also a fairly new idea with the first publications about it being in the 1990's.

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  12. Jessica Hartline & Heather Baker:
    Ecological Footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. Its measures how much biologically productive land and water area and individual, population, or activity requires to produce all the resources it consumes and to aborb the waste it generates using prevailing technology and resource management practices.

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  13. Ecological footprint is the measure of human demand of the earth's ecosystems, and compares the those demands with the earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.

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  14. The Ecological Footprint is rooted in the fact that all renewable resources come from the earth.The Ecological Footprint is defined as "the area of productive land and water ecosystems required to produce the resources that the population consumes and assimilate the wastes that the population produces, wherever on Earth the land and water is located."

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  16. Means the number of plantes, where one equals the total biocapacity of the Earth in any one year.

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  17. Our ecological footprint is the measure of human demands on the Earth's ecosystems. I believe most people have no idea how much the actions of their daily lives have on the planet. If they did, some people would sincerely try to change. I realize that is currently happening but I believe it would be to a much greater degree.

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