Ecological Footprint

What is an ecological footprint? Basically it is a tangible management and communications tool that quantifies. It combines the effect of multiple community’s initiatives into one comprehensive, yet easy-to-understand measurement of ecological impact. Next it simplifies clearly and visually communicates your community’s progress toward sustainability over time. And finally it unifies, acting as an “umbrella” metric that multiplies organizations and all individuals can rally around reducing. In essence it measures and reduces your community’s demands on nature.

“There is one measure and one measure only describing the capacity and relationship between human society and living systems: The Ecological Footprint. It is the only standard by which we may calibrate our collective impact upon the planet, and assess the viability of our future. It is “true north” when it comes to sustainability; no report about the environment is complete without it.” ~ Paul Hawkin, co-author, Natural Capitalism

For more details and how you can help please see the following links.

http://earthday.net/footprint/index.asp
http://bestfootforward.com/footprintlife.htm
http://www.regionalprogressorg/.

Fast Fact: Did you know that the average US footprint is 24 acres per person; there are only 4.6 productive acres available for each person on the planet.

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