A person’s ecological footprint is the influence a person has on the environment. An ecological footprints size depends on how much Earth or land a person needs to maintain their use of Earth’s resources. There are many types of lifestyle factors that can impact the size of a person’s ecological footprint. Those factors can include what a person eats, they could be eating meat, poultry, veggies and seafood which would make the footprint bigger because land and sea creatures are being consumed. This can also include transportation, the way a person gets from place to place. A person would usually drive a car, take public transport, bike or walk. To lower the ecological footprint, biking and walking would be a better option, because less resources …show more content…
My food portion was 20% which meant that I ate more meat, veggie, fish products, and some packaged foods. My food portion effected my services portion, because with the packaged food, comes trash. With there being trash, that upped the percentage in services because waste management systems were being used. Since these things are being used, I think it would have more of a negative impact than a positive one. These two things had more of an impact than my living situation. The living situation according to my lifestyle would have less of an effect on the environment. I don’t think I would be using as much products for shelter. The shelter portion on my pie chart was 10%. I think that would have less of an effect on the environment compared to the rest of my pie chart because I wouldn’t be taking as much space. Food and services would definitely have bigger effects on the environment because, I am consuming animal meat, which are a part of the environment and nature. As I mentioned above, I would also be using services and would be using fossil fuels, for cars and public transportation, to get to the places I need to
Canada; known for peacekeeping, multiculturalism and having one the largest ecological footprints in the world. What is an ecological footprint? The ecological footprint is a measurement of the amount of greenhouse gases produced by the activities in a person's daily life. One main source of greenhouse gas is burning fossil fuels. That includes the gas in a person's car and the coal burned at the power plant. Scientists have concluded that humans are producing more greenhouse gases than ever before. These gases trap heat in our atmosphere, causing our planet to warm up and changing our climate. The ecological footprint, therefore, measures the amount of potential impact a person's daily life has on the environment. By reducing the amount of greenhouse gases produced by people's lifestyle, they can reduce the footprint and help slow climate change on Earth. Canadian's are starting to get accustomed to using a surplus amount of energy when it is never needed and throwing garbage on the ground because the trash can is too far away for them reach. Canadian's are also using up the little natural resources left on this planet for sustainability. Crops, oil, trees are being used so much, that there might not be enough for the future generations. Canada must realize that this is a situation that must be taken seriously and that must be executed properly by meeting the social, environmental and economical standpoints. To reduce the ecological footprint and to regain sustainability, there are many things Canadian's can do to change the current situation. Ecological footprints can be reduced by using alternative energy sources, reducing energy consumption and by using cleaner transport to reach destinations.
There is no hesitation when it comes to whether humans impact the global environment. However, it is questioned in whether human’s ecological footprint is either negatively or positively impacting. In clear perspective, humans share from both sides and their ecological footprint is noted towards whether it will benefit or harm the environment around them. Topics such as overpopulation, pollution, biomagnification, and deforestation are all human impacted and can harm the environment, but some include benefits into helping the world around us with solutions to their problems.
A personal ecological footprint, also known as an eco-footprint, is the demand that an individual person puts on the Earth’s natural resources; such as land, ocean, and the waste that the individual produces. A person’s consumption of the Earth’s resources and how that individual impacts the earth help to create a personal eco-footprint calculation. At http://myfootprint.org/, I calculated my personal ecological footprint and discovered my impact on the Earth’s resources and its ecosystem. The ecological footprint quiz results were that if everyone on the planet lived my lifestyle we would need 3.86 Earth’s to sustain the world’s population.
One of the biggest controversies with livestock production is that the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that get released into the atmosphere. Its assumed that cars produce most if not all the greenhouse gas emissions however livestock has a big say in air pollution. According to Cassandra Brooks, writer for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, 18 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions are due to livestock production. This is nearly 20% and can be greatly reduced if people reduced their demand for meat. The Environmental Working Group used a tangible variable for Americans stating “if everyone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese just one day a week, it would be like not driving 91 billion miles – or taking 7.6 million cars off the road” (Goffman 9). Instead of taking the bus to work, switching your diet around could make just as much of an impact on the environment.
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During the days we flew, we had a pattern. The airplane held a little over 50 gallons of gas and burned roughly 10 gallons per hour. When we filed flight plans, we structured our schedule and stops correspondingly. This accorded us four hours of flying time with the expectation that when we landed to re-fuel we would still have 10 gallons to spare. Throughout the trip, we consistently strove to maintain the 10 gallon/1 hour reserve to give us a margin of safety. We fell into a routine, making for exceedingly comfortable days. We each had different tasks and trusted one another to perform them without supervision or criticism. I genuinely enjoyed knowing we had a plan and executing it regularly. It was an arrangement which made it easier
Moreover, there is a good example of influences factor use in the case study of First Group. The Political elements mainly is that, the people should use the public transport more than their personal cars and vehicle to reduce CO2 emissions from
Every day the world around us is changing ever so slightly in many different ways. Humans can affect the environment through our day to day lifestyle without even noticing the change. An ecological footprint is a measurement of how much a person uses the environment around them to live their life. This given measurement can help one to see their impact on the earth. It is an important tool to understand what actually a human does to change the habitat near them. My ecological footprint results gave me a perspective of how my daily life can impact the world I live in, as well as, how I as an individual can change my actions to make less waste on earth. It is also useful for each person to know their own ecological footprint since no one live
An ecological footprint can be regarded as the amount of strain exerted by an individual on the environment. In general, the environment has a certain level that it can sustain living things through the regeneration of its resources. If at any instance the load exceeds the environment 's carrying capacity, then there will be an offshoot which can cause an environmental collapse. For this reason, there are measures that can be taken to reduce this offload such as growing the carrying capacity.
Kayla O’Connell Human Geography Ecological Footprint. An ecological footprint measures the resources you use and formulates a number of Earths the world would need if everybody lived by the same means as you. This equation incorporates many aspects of daily life, calculates how much we consume and how much waste we’re producing, and compares those numbers to how quickly the Earth can absorb our waste and regenerate those resources. All of these variables are considered and a total is given in a number of Earths, which represents how many Earths it would take to support humanity if everyone lived by the same standards as you.
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There exists various lifestyles and behaviours, ranging from amount of nutrition intake, mental well-being, to the amount of physical activity engaged individually. Weighing the abundance of factors, this essay primarily aims to focus on the aspect of physical activity in relevance to how it possibly affects one's lifestyle. By cross-referencing to other lifestyles and behaviours, this essay will also demonstrate the importance of physical activity in possibly alleviating the issues raised pertaining to other lifestyles as well. Throughout this essay, there will be frequent references to the socio-ecological framework in examining the aforementioned factors.
There is no doubt that human activity is having a significant impact on our environment. These environmental impacts include depleting our natural resources, air and water pollution, climate change, destruction of habitats, and loss of biodiversity. Because of these growing concerns, we need to learn how to live sustainably. Living sustainably will allow us to conserve our limited resources more wisely so they will be available for future generations (Withgott & Brennan, 2011, Chapter 1).
The idea of water is often overlooked as being something that we need to try ad sustain. We have the whole ocean and there seems to constantly be a storm dumping rain over the country at all times. But do we really have enough water to support all our needs including the irrigation for our crops and the water that we need to consume to stay healthy? Do the rivers and streams hold a quality of clean and healthy water? The project that I am about to discuss was set into play in order to try and tackle these questions as well as many other concerns such as flood protection, wildlife and recreation uses, and actively getting the people aware and supportive of change. This project is known as modernizing water management and building a national sustainable rivers program. The nature conservancy teams up with the Army Corps of Engineers in trying to find sustainable solutions to river health. Throughout the 20th century the United States built thousands of Dams and several other types of water projects to try and meet the growing need that was present from water, food, flood protection, hydropower and navigation. Of all the dams that were built some 40-80 years ago there is very few of them that have been fully reviewed to see if they meet the current needs. They have not been inspected to prepare for future circumstances or to observe any new updates that they may be in need of. With the idea of this sustainable project we can now attempt to modernize the operations and to improve the social, economic and environmental benefits that they can provide for us now as well as for the future generations that are still to come. The idea is to improve our current dams and try to build a better system to manage the waterways through our countr...
Environmental health explains the quality of your home, work, school, and social environment. Even the health of our planet plays a factor, air quality and availability of clean filtered water and healthy food. Also the weather and pollution, exposures to chemicals are factors playing against environment. I read an article by Lecia Bushak and she had made up many ways to help improve our environment. “Earth Day isn’t the only day you can take steps to make the environment better. In fact, it’s really easy to go green on a daily basis, and in doing so, you’ll be improving your own life” (Bushak, 2015). Following her step I will do my best to not use my car as much. I will be recycling more that’s for sure. I also will start being better about monitoring my electronics and water use in my home! These few changes will make the difference in my environmental health and I am willing to make these changes!