EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Which is NOT a way to decrease your ecological footprint? Turning off electricity and water when you’re not using it.

Detailed explanation-2: -Reduce packaging waste in the kitchen by buying in bulk, eating a veggie-based diet, and composting. Reduce your bathroom product waste by concocting your own formulas, buying reusables, and forgoing unnecessary products. Be sure to recycle plastic bottles, toilet paper rolls, and other recyclable bathroom materials.

Detailed explanation-3: -3. List three things you do that increase your ecological footprint. Sample answers include: drive instead of walk to school; leave computers and electronics turned on when not in use; eat meat products with most meals; eat processed foods or food not locally grown (e.g. fruit from Chile rather than Canada).

Detailed explanation-4: -As previously mentioned, ecological footprint is often expressed as global hectares. For example, in order to live within the means of what the earth can sustain, the world’s ecological footprint would have to be equal to the biocapacity available per person which is 1.7 global hectares on average.

Detailed explanation-5: -Your ecological footprint refers to how much of planet earth’s limited resources that can be attributed to your lifestyle. With ClimateHero ecological footprint calculator you can test and check how large your eco footprint is, when it comes to climate impact, i.e. how much carbon emissions (CO2) you generate.