I celebrated earth day today cleaning up the cape cod canal with the lovely folks at AmeriCorps Cape Cod, and some very committed volunteers from the area. We cleaned up over 1000 pounds of trash and had a great time doing it. Lean more about the history of earth day here. As it happens every earth day people talk about their Eco Foot Print. That is the amount of land you use up in comparison to the amount of land that would be available to you if everyone got an equal share.

my foot print is as follows:

CATEGORY ACRES

FOOD 2.2

MOBILITY 0.2

SHELTER 4.9

GOODS/SERVICES 4.7

TOTAL FOOTPRINT 12

IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 24 ACRES PER PERSON.

WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 4.5 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE ACRES PER PERSON.

IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 2.7 PLANETS.

Not bad, but not good either, I need to drive less, conserve more energy, eat more local foods, maybe even grow more food on my own. Its horrible that I use half what a normal American uses and I still use 3 times what I should be. Its sad, but I am working on it.

Want to check your footprint? Try myfootprint.org