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	Ecological Footprint
		Ecological Footprint looks at the total amount of global hectares that are required to support a particular population, regardless of whether those hectares are within the national borders where that population lives.
		Footprint analysis provides a means of assessing the impact of population, affluence (consumption) and technology identified in the The IPAT Equation.
		Footprint was used extensivly in last update of the Limits to Growth to give a summary report of human demand on nature.
	www.sustainablescale.org /ConceptualFramework/UnderstandingScale/MeasuringScale/EcologicalFootprint.aspx (1564 words)

	Ecological footprint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The phrase "ecological footprint" is a metaphor used to depict the amount of land and water area a human population would hypothetically need to provide the resources required to support itself and to absorb its wastes, given prevailing technology.
		Ecological footprint analysis approximates the amount of ecologically productive land and sea area required to sustain a population, manufacture a product, or undertake certain activities, by accounting the use of energy, food, water, building material and other consumables.
		Ecological footprints have been used to argue that current lifestyles are not sustainable.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ecological_footprint (774 words)

	How the Happy Planet Index is Calculated
		Ecological footprint accounting measures the extent to which the ecological demand of human economies stays within or exceeds the capacity of the biosphere to supply goods and services.
		The ecological footprint measures how much land area is required to sustain a given population at present levels of consumption, technological development and resource efficiency, and is expressed in global-average hectares (gha).
		The largest component elements of Footprint are the land used to grow food, trees and biofuels, areas of ocean used for fishing, and most importantly the land required to support the plant life needed to absorb and sequester CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.
	www.happyplanetindex.org /ecological-footprint.htm (346 words)

	Footprint Network News - Global Footprint Network - Advancing the Science of Sustainability
		Ecological Footprint accounts estimate how many Earths were needed to meet the resource requirements of humanity for each year since 1961, when complete UN statistics became available.
		Resource demand (Ecological Footprint) for the world as a whole is the product of population times per capita consumption, and reflects both the level of consumption and the efficiency with which resources are turned into consumption products.
		The global ecological deficit of 0.25 Earths is equal to the globe's ecological overshoot.
	www.footprintnetwork.org /gfn_sub.php?content=global_footprint (289 words)

	Stepping Forward [ Ecological Footprint Report - Regional Footprints Within the SW Region ]
		By equating the ecological footprint to an area twice the size of Central Park, it was possible to give the local people some idea of the impact they have on the planet in a very simple way.
		As a result a partial footprint was calculated, which reflects the average ecological footprint for a western city of the size and population of Plymouth.
		The aim of the ecological footprint was to make a rough estimate of the per person footprint for educational purposes in a relatively short period of time and at moderate cost.
	www.steppingforward.org.uk /ef/swfootprints.htm (972 words)

	City of Toronto: Environmental Assessment & Policy Development - Ecological Footprint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The "ecological footprint," a concept first created by William Rees, was further developed by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel and the Task Force on Healthy and Sustainable Communities at the University of British Columbia.
		The ecological footprint is the area of biologically productive land and water area needed to supply the resources and assimilate the wastes generated by that population, using the prevailing technology.
		The Ecological Footprint Questionnaire Pilot Study was developed by the Environmental Unit of Technical Services to test how effective the ecological footprint concept is at educating the residents of Toronto about the environmental impact of individual consumption.
	www.toronto.ca /eia/footprint (522 words)

	Expanding Ecological Footprint
		Ecological Footprint is a quantitative measure of how much ecologically productive land and water a defined population unit needs to support its current consumption and to take care of its wastes.
		The Ecological Footprint, measured in acres or hectares, calculates the amount of Earth's bio productive space needed to keep a certain population unit living and consuming at its current levels.
		Ecological Footprint analyses provide an important reminder of the implications of resource use at the global level and the differences between countries around the globe.
	www.worldcentric.org /stateworld/footprint.htm (462 words)

	William Rees Seminar
		Ecological holism presents an alternative to dualism and is the perspective adopted by 'ecological economics'.
		Ecologically speaking, even pre-agricultural humans were 'macro-consumers', in that they depended on other organisms which they consumed to satisfy their metabolic needs.
		The ecological footprint of a specified population is the area of land and water ecosystems required to produce the resources that the population consumes, and to assimilate the wastes that the population produces, wherever on Earth the relevant land and water may be located.
	www.ec.gc.ca /seminar/WR_e.html (2653 words)

	Ecological Footprint : Overview
		The Ecological Footprint is a resource management tool that measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes under prevailing technology.
		Ecological Footprints enable people to take personal and collective actions in support of a world where humanity lives within the means of one planet.
		The Ecological Footprint provides a systematic resource accounting tool that can help us plan for a world in which we all live well, within the means of our one planet.
	www.footprintnetwork.org /gfn_sub.php?content=footprint_overview (517 words)

	What is an Ecological Footprint?
		Based on this relationship between humanity and the biosphere, an ecological footprint is a measurement of the land area required to sustain a population of any size.
		Footprints can be measured at an individual level, or for cities, regions, countries, or the entire planet.
		Footprints indicate how much "nature" is available for a defined population to use, compared to how much it needs to maintain its current activities.
	www.gdrc.org /uem/footprints/what-is-ef.html (587 words)

	The Ecological Footprint: A resource accounting framework for measuring human demand on the biosphere — EEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Footprint of a population is the total amount of biologically productive land and water area that the population requires to produce the resources it consumes and absorb the waste it generates, using current technology.
		Since people consume resources and ecological services from all over the world, their Footprint is the sum of these areas, regardless of where they are located on the planet.
		The Footprint is used by governments, businesses, and organisations to measure and manage sustainability efforts, from communication and planning to implementation and evaluation of results.
	www.eea.europa.eu /highlights/Ann1132753060 (789 words)

	Ecological Footprint
		Ecological Footprint analysis can be used as a tool to raise awareness about the demands we make on the environment to supply our consumption needs and habits, and reabsorb the wastes generated from our activities.
		Once our Ecological Footprint is calculated, we will have a benchmark to set our personal footprint reduction goals and to measure our progress when we recalculate it at a later date.
		Footprint analysts have estimated that our fair earth share of resources amounts to two hectares per person, or a footprint that is 75% smaller than the average Canadian Ecological Footprint.
	www.buddycom.com /animal/envirimg/footprint/index.html (2010 words)

	SSC: Projects
		The Ecological Footprint Project was a community-based public awareness and action program that used the Ecological Footprint, a key tool for measuring the impact of human activity on the natural environment.
		For example, biologist E.O. Wilson, called "one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers," considers the Footprint to be one of the most significant recent ecological inventions because of its ability to communicate complex scientific information in relatively simple terms to explain the relationship between human consumption and the natural environment.
		In a similar vein, Dr.Mathis Wackernagel, co-creator of the Ecological Footprint considers Sustainable Sonoma County to be one of the most advanced groups in the nation for using the Ecological Footprint to create social change at the community level.
	www.sustainablesonoma.org /projects/scefootprint.html (429 words)

	Assessing Energy's Ecological Footprint and Carbon Emissions: A Free University Web Course Module
		This web-course is designed to teach university students and resource management professionals how to calculate the ecological footprint of energy use and the carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion, which constitute the single largest portion of human's planetary footprint.
		Though the calculated size of society's energy footprint varies by assessment method, the different methods agree that energy constitutes the largest component of society's ecological footprint.
		While there are obvious differences in the footprint assessment, the causes of which are discussed in the section on Ecological Footprint Modeling, in both assessments energy is the single largest component of the footprint.
	www.redefiningprogress.org /energyfootprint (717 words)

	bastish.net: ecological footprint Archives
		Tracking my ecological footprint is simply a took that I hope will help me to reduce my consumption by setting future goals and accounting for current consumption in relation to those goals.
		Since measuring one's ecological footprint is very much about consumption, a logical place to look for the current state of the world, is the WorldWatch State of the World Report for 2004 which centered on the consumer society.
		The Ecological Footprinting is an accounting process used to quantifiably measure the total area required to produce the food and fiber that a single person, family, or organization consumes, absorb its waste, and provide space for its infrastructure.
	www.bastish.net /ecological_footprint (4580 words)

	Our Ecological Footprint
		An ecological footprint is an analysis tool that lets us visualize the amount of waste a single person produces and the impact that it has on our environment.
		Most people interviewed were shocked about how big their footprint is. Brenda said that she cares about the size of her footprint and her impact on the planet, but is very busy with college and feels that she doesn't have time to focus on reducing her footprint.
		Everyone's footprint was reduced by at least one, except for Kam, (because she doesn't fly).
	web.pdx.edu /~martinan/our_ecological_footprint.htm (639 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : SUSTAINABLE CITY : ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Rees' ecological footprint analysis of his home city of Vancouver, Canada, indicates that city appropriates the productive output of an land area nearly 174 times larger that its political area to support its present consumer lifestyle.
		Global and regional-scale ecological change in the form of atmospheric change, ozone depletion, soil loss, ground water depletion, deforestation, fisheries collapse, loss of biodiversity, etc., is accelerating.
		By means of its GIS (Geographic Information Systems) mapping capacity, the Sustainable City computer simulation programme will make it possible to plot the ecological footprint of any town or city, analyse its impact on the surrounding environment, and identify latent opportunities for making the city more sustainable.
	www.global-vision.org /city/footprint.html (1562 words)

	WorldChanging: Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Europe’s Ecological Footprint
		Europe 2005: The Ecological Footprint is based on the Global Footprint Network's National Footprint Accounts and presents case study and time trend data for France, Germany, Greece, Poland, and the United Kingdom as well as a comparison of the footprint of 25 European nations.
		A country’s footprint is the total area required to produce the food and fiber that it consumers, absorb its waste, and provide space for its infrastructure.
		Ecological footprints often are expressed in terms of the "number of Earths" it would take to provide the capacity needed to support a given population.
	www.worldchanging.com /archives/002924.html (717 words)

	2005 Ecological Footprint @ Pthbb!!
		Some regions for which footprint data was unavailable (shown in blue on the map) were mistakenly scaled by population en lieu of area.
		The Ecological Footprint (EF) draws upon long line of theory, and was created by William Rees and Mathis Wackernagel in the mid 1990s as an indicator of the sustainability of the human economy.
		This is a map of the ecological footprint per capita, by nation.
	pthbb.org /natural/footprint (512 words)

	ecological footprint
		The Ecological Footprint of Nations' December 2001 Update lists the average human's Ecological Footprint to be 7.1 acres, just slightly over half of the total acres necessary to sustain my current lifestyle.
		It should also be mentioned that some of the nations with a higher Ecological Footprint than Canada have a skewed ratio due to the small size of the country, whereas Canada has a relatively small population for the size and large amount of resources that the country has to offer.
		When our national Ecological Footprint is compared to the global average, we are using nearly four times the biocapacity per capita that the Earth can sustain.
	members.shaw.ca /amn/portfolio/ecofoot.htm (1004 words)

	Evaluating Ecological Footprints (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The author will argue below that the fossil fuel (energy) footprint, which is an extremely important calculation, is a different kind of footprint and that to sum it with the food/wood products/degraded land footprint is misleading and compromises the power of Ecological Footprint Analysis.
		Ecological Footprint Analysis of these real demands can give us some measure of the degree to which Earth's surface can sustainably support humanity's patterns of consumption as population grows and standards of living in developing countries rise.
		Energy footprint analysis shows that the amount of new forest needed is unrealistically huge, and thus there seems to be no satisfactory mitigation available to limit the buildup of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
	egj.lib.uidaho.edu /egj09/palmer1.html (2873 words)

	Ecological Footprint -- Revisiting Carrying Capacity: Area-Based Indicators of Sustainability
		Ecological Footprint - The corresponding area of productive land and aquatic ecosystems required to produce the resources used, and to assimilate the wastes produced, by a defined population at a specified material standard of living, wherever on Earth that land may be located.
		Ecological deficits are a measure of the entropic load and resultant "disordering" being imposed on the ecosphere by so-called advanced countries as the unaccounted cost of maintaining and further expanding their wealthy consumer economies.
		Ecological footprint analysis supports the argument that to be sustainable, economic growth must be much less material and energy intensive than at present (see, for example, Pearce, 1994).
	dieoff.org /page110.htm (6312 words)

	Sustainable Measures - Indicator spotlight: ecological footprint
		However, the ecological footprint is not as much a reflection of a person's standard of living as much as it is a reflection of a person's of style of living.
		The average US ecological footprint is 50% larger than the average person in most European countries in part because the US has more suburban sprawl, less public transportation, and uses more energy and water per person than most other developed countries.
		The ecological footprint is a useful indicator for educating people about the extent to which human consumption is overtaking the ability of the earth to support life.
	www.sustainablemeasures.com /Indicators/IS_EcologicalFootprint.html (1005 words)

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