Using the link, http://www.myfootprint.org/, calculate your total Ecological Footprint, and the component parts for Food, Mobility, Shelter and Goods/Services.

 

Note the reading "Ecological Footprints Accounts".

 

	Ecol_Footprint.pdf Ecological Footprint Accounts: "Moving Sustainability from Concept to Measurable Goal"	198 K
	GallowayCowling.pdf Galloway, J. N.; Cowling, E. B. “Reactive Nitrogen and World: Two Hundred Years of Change” Ambio 2002, 31, 64-71	443 K
	SmilDetonator.pdf Smil, V. “Detonator of the Population Explosion” Nature 1999, 400, 415.	125 K
	SmilEnergy.pdf Smil, V. “Energy in the Twentieth Century: Resources, Conversions, Costs, Uses, and Consequences” Annu. Rev. Energy Environ. 2000, 25, 21-51	141 K

• How does your Ecological Footprint compare to the average USA Ecological Footprint?
• How many planets would be needed if everyone had your lifestyle?

"The expansion of the global population from 1.6 billion in 1900 to today's 6 billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia for fertilizer." (V. Smil, 2001)

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