The time has come to see if I have been able to reduce my Eco -footprint over the duration of this assignment.
My initial Ecological Footprint according to the EPA website:
If everyone lived like me, we would need 2.6 Planet Earths to provide enough resource!
Food makes up 46% of my ecological footprint (I eat a lot of meat).
And to support my lifestyle, it takes 4.7 global hectares of the Earth's productive area.
Current Ecological Footprint
If everyone lived like me, we would need 2 Planet Earths to provide enough resource! A reduction of .6 Planet Earths!
Food makes up 48% of my ecological footprint. I must admit I am surprised about this. I thought I had changed my diet enough to at least make a bit of difference here in a good way, instead the results show an increase of 2%. Maybe I did not accurately record my food breakdown in the initial footprint?
Goods 9%
Services 28%
Shelter 11%
Mobility 3%
And to support my lifestyle, it takes 3.5 global hectares of the Earth's productive area.
ELECTRICITY - ORIGIN
To come
GAS - ORIGIN
Account period: 27-8-2010 to 27-10-2010: 61 days
Usage: 2070MJ's
Average Daily usage: 33.9 MJ (2 people)
Amount: $46.73
Average cost per day: $ 0.92
Greenhouse gas emissions: 0.11 tonnes C02
WATER:
Unfortunately I have forgotten to bring my diary back to the farm so that I can type the water usage for most weeks in the blog. I know from memory that both Ben and I use below 155litres per day. I believe this has a lot to do with the following: we do not have a washing machine, we have a flushing policy which you would have already read about, we only fill the bucket in the kitchen sink half way when doing the dishes and we try (and succeed most of the time) to only have 3 minute showers. I will have to check my diary again to be positively sure but I think we only managed to reduce our water usage by a few litres as we have always been water wise even before this assignment.
