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But simply doing what you mention (living near work, walk rather than using the gym, buy local produce, etc) doesn't tell you how much productive earth you personally are using...ie, your Eco-Footprint. Sure, doing all of those things will reduce your footprint, but by how much? How can you determine which changes will afford the greatest effect on your impact on the earth? That's the kind of stuff I hoped to find myself, but couldn't. I wanted to be able to spend an afternoon with a calculator and a big checklist or whatever and evaluate what my own personal impact was and what the greatest contributors were to its size.
--Michael J. Coffey--
-----Original Message-----
From: Nan Hildreth
Sent: Wednesday, 17 February, 1999 12:33 PM
To: positive-futures@igc.org
Cc: David MacClement
Subject: Re: reducing eco-footprint 600%
At 08:22 AM 2/17/99 , Tom wrote:
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>The main weakness of the book these guys (Wackernagel
>and Rees) wrote is that it does NOT tell how to do this--
We know how roughly. Live near work, or work at home. Have friends you can
walk to visit. Walk to visit them instead of driving to the gym. Look at the
trees along the way. Carpool for outings. Local food, not grapes from
Chile.
Grow some of your own. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Some folks here are dedicated
to all that. It's time we applauded them for it.
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