Ecological Footprint

Have you ever considered your ecological footprint? If you're not sure what that is, it's basically the environmental impact of your life and the way you live. Here some interesting facts, taken from the Global Living Project:

• How much Earth is there?
  126 billion acres
• Amount of Earth covered by low bio-productive oceans, deserts, ice caps, and human settlement?
  97 billion acres
• How much bio-productive land and sea exists?
  29 billion acres
• Current human population?
  6.4 billion
• How much exists per person today?
  4.5 acres
• How much is available per person if we leave 75% wild for the 25 million other species on Earth?
  1 acre
• How much do humans on average use globally?
  5.8 acres     

Also interesting is the average ecological footprint around the world:

• United States - 24 acres
• Canada - 22 acres
• United Kingdom - 13 acres
• Russian Federation - 11 acres
• Mexico - 6 acres
• World Average - 5.6 acres
• Personal Planetoid - 4.5 acres
• China - 4 acres
• GLP - 3.2 acres (summer) and 4 acres (winter)
• Iraq – 3 acres
• India - 2 acres
• Bangladesh - 1 acre
• Inter-species equity (75 percent wild) - 1 acre
• Afghanistan – 0.75 acres

 Check out your ecological footprint.