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https://www.footprintnetwork.org/our-work/ecological-footprint/

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Begin by familiarizing yourself with the concept of ecological footprinting analysis. After you have read the document on ecological footprinting, take a brief ecological footprint quiz. Select the country and language of your choice then take the short quiz. This will give you an idea of how much land and water is needed to support your lifestyle.

Journal Assignment

Write (at least 250 words) about your experience with the ecological footprint quiz. Describe your results and what you learned, how it affected you, and how you believe this information will help you with your ideas on a class project. Remember to cite your essay in APA format and include information from an outside resource of your choice for maximum points.

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With increasing carbon need of individuals and thus for economy, there is an urgent need for carbon footprint calculation on personal, products, organizations, cities and countries level. Thus a personal carbon footprint will measure the carbon dioxide emissions caused by each person's needs of clothing, food, housing and traffic of daily life. Similarly a product carbon footprint will measures the greenhouse gas and chloro-flouro carbo emissions over the entire life of a product which can also be a good or a service. In this way an organizational carbon footprint measures the Green house gas emissions from all the activities across the organization, including energy used in buildings, industrial processes and company vehicles. If we'll cummulate all of this a country carbon footprint can be calculated which will focuses on carbon dioxide emissions in the entire country generated by the overall consumption of materials and energy, vegetation and other carbon sequestrations, as well as the indirect and direct emissions caused by import and export activities and hence this can be used to analyse the carbon dioxide emissions of the entire country. This will thus increase our cautiousness towards the use of goods and services which emits green house gas and thus will increase the carbon foot print of the country apart from this, it will promote the 3R's of various goods which are Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. All this will thus help to promote sustainable development of countries.

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