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Our ecological footprint measures how fast we consume resources and generate waste. It is usually focused on five or six factors:
- Water
- Energy
- Transport and Air
- Bio-diversity
- Purchasing and Waste.
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- Energy
- Settlement
- Timber and paper
- Food and fibre
- Seafood.
or
- Cropland
- Pasture
- Forests
- Carbon Footprint
- Built Land
- Fishing Grounds.
There are several factors to consider that can affect your ecological footprint. Most have to do with how we live our lives such as: walking vs. taking a car, buying food from the store vs. growing it in a garden.
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∙ 9y ago
Wiki User
∙ 7y agoEcological Footprint measures the amount of biologically productive land and water area an individual, a city, a country, a region, or all of humanity uses to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb the waste it generates with today's technology and resource management practices.
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∙ 11y agofood consumption, electricity, people per family, hydro, gas, natural gas, non efficient items
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∙ 10y agoUsing too many non-renewable resources, because ecological footprint is a measurement of sustainability.
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Factors contributing to communication apprehension?
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