RE: [pf] the Wackernagel Ecological Footprint calculation.

At 12:05 8/10/2000 -0700, I (David Mac) wrote:
>· ... my main web-page, shorter now,
>using links to my earlier ones, is:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
>
>· It now starts:
>
>    “I am living sustainably at a very low level, and have done so for
>nearly eight years. 
>     I have independent "proof" that my very frugal living is sustainable.”
>
>· then reference to Mathis Wackernagel's Ecological Footprint calculation;
>basically picking the highlights out of my post to Positive Futures back on
>June 21 this year.
>
>

· A few days ago my daughter Ruth tried out the Ecological Footprint
calculation (starting with the link on my webpage), and said she was living
at 60% to 80% of the American average level. She also said that, from
memory, she used 3000 calories a day - she'd labelled her physical life as
"active".

· Although that's about 4 times my ascetic level/footprint-size, I think
for a car-driving-person her footprint is not bad, for a start.

· Have Nan (with no car) and others tried calculating their Ecological
Footprint in the last few months? and how did the numbers work out? So I
can let Ruth know how actual Americans on this list rate.

· Which reminds me; it's been well over a year since anyone posted here
saying they were /not/ from the USA or Canada. Perhaps there aren't any now.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.geocities.com/davdd.geo/index.html#top
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