What is Ecological Footprinting?
Ecological Footprint analysis measures the impact of human activity upon nature. The Footprint expresses the land area that is required to feed, provide resources, produce energy, assimilate waste, and to re-absorb the greenhouse gases produced by our use of fossil fuels.
This approach uses land as its ‘currency’, and provides a notional figure for the land area required to support an individual, a community or a nation’s population at its present lifestyle.
Calculating our Ecological Footprint helps us to explore and understand our impact on the environment and the planet, and identify ways to reduce it.