Assess your Household's Ecological Footprint

First, choose whether you want to work with metric or US measurements.

by Mathis Wackernagel, Ritik Dholakia, Diana Deumling, and Dick Richardson, Redefining Progress, v 2.0, March 2000

: put "m" for metric, "s" for US standard

Second, register your monthly consumption in column D (or your yearly consumption in column E). Optional: put the dollar amounts into column F. Number of people in the household:
1 AMOUNT per month eqv. amount per year Dollars I) FOSSIL spent (mth) ENERGY II) ARABLE LAND (land and sea space in square meters) III) PASTURE IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP LAND VI) SEA

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD

Units

Enter percentage of food purchased that is wasted rather than eaten in your household. How much of the food that you buy is locally grown, unprocessed and in-season?

26% b

100% .Veggies, potatoes & fruit .Bread and bakery products .Flour, rice, noodles, cereal products .Beans and other dried pulses .Milk, cream, yogurt, sour cream .Ice cream, other frozen dairy .Cheese, butter .Eggs [assumed to be 50 g each] .Meat ..Pork ..Chicken, turkey ..Beef (grain fed) ..Beef (pasture fed) .Fish .Sugar .Vegetable oil & fat ..solid ..liquid .Coffee & tea .Juice & wine .Beer .Garden [area used for food] .Eating out SUB-TOTAL-1 2.-HOUSING [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [l] [l] [kg] [number] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [l] [kg] [l] [l] [m2] [$] 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

( 26 percent is the national average) a. Most food we buy is packaged, out of season and from far away. b. About a quarter c. About half d. About three quarters e. Most all the food we get is locally grown, unprocessed, and in-season. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0

.House [living area] ..wooden house (US standard) [m2] ..brick house [m2] .Yard [or total lot size incl. building] [m2] . Hotels, Motels [$] .Electricity (also check composition--see note) [kWh] enter as fraction. ex. 25% = 0.25 ..thermally produced (fossil and nuclear)

0 0 0 0 0 88%

0 0 0 0 0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0

0 0 0 0

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..lower course hydro ..high altitude hydro ..PV solar (on existing roof areas) ..solar ..PV [onsolar newly (on built-up newlyarea] built-up area) ..wind ..geothermal ..biomass .Fossil gas (natural gas) ..city gas [m3] ..bottled liquid petroleum gas (e.g. propane) [l] .Liquid fossil fuel (fuel oil, kerosene) [l] .Coal [kg] .Water (not included since it depends on local circumstances) [m3] .Water, sewer, garbage service [$] .Straw [kg] .Firewood [kg] .Constr. wood & furniture [kg] .Major appliances [kg] .Computers and electronic equipment [kg] .Small appliances [kg] SUB-TOTAL-2

9% 1% 0% 0.03% 0.1% 0.4% 1.5% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Footprint Calculation Matrix for Households

CATEGORIES 3.- TRANSPORTATION Units AMOUNT per month eqv. amount per year Dollars spent (mth) I) FOSSIL ENERGY II) ARABLE LAND III) PASTURE

.....CONTINUED page #2 of 3 (land and sea space in square meters) IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP LAND VI) SEA

.Bus, transit [pers.*km] .Bus, intercity [pers.*km] .Train, transit [pers.*km] .Train, intercity (Amtrak) [pers.*km] .Taxi / rental/ other's car [km] average fuel efficiency [liters] .Car (your own) [km] average fuel efficiency [liters] .Parts for repair [kg] .Airplane [pers.*hours] (e)conomy, (b)usiness or (f)irst class? SUB-TOTAL-3 4.-GOODS

0 0 0 0 0 20 0 20 0.0 0.0 e

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0

.Clothes and textiles (if bought used, count them at 1/3 of their weight) ..cotton [kg] 0.0 ..wool [kg] 0.0 ..fossil based (synthetic) [kg] 0.0 Durable paper products (books) and hygenic paper [kg] products (toilet/tissue 0 paper) .Metal items, tools [kg] 0 .Leather [kg] 0.0 .Plastic products and photos [kg] 0 .Porcelain, glass [kg] 0 .Medicine [kg] 0 .Hygiene products, cleaning stuff [kg] 0 .Cigarettes, other tobacco products [kg] 1.0 SUB-TOTAL-4

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 205 205

0 0 0 0

75 75

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 25 25

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5.-SERVICES .Postal services ..international [kg] 0.0 0 ..domestic [kg] 0 0 .Dry cleaning or external laundry service [$] 0 0 .Telephone [$] 0 0 .Medical insurance and services [$] 0 0 .Household insurance [$] 0 0 .Entertainment [$] 0 0 .Education [$] 0 0 SUB-TOTAL-5 6.- WASTE (assuming everything compostable is composted, and waste = packaging) .Household waste: ..paper and paperboard ..aluminum ..other metal ..glass ..plastic SUB-TOTAL-6

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

[kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg]

0 0 0 0 0 0.0

0 0 0 0 0 0

enter percentage recycled in your household: $0.00 0 42% $0.00 0 28% $0.00 0 35% $0.00 0 26% $0.00 0 5% $0.00 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Equivalence Unadjusted CORRECTION FACTORS FOR THE U.S. 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE U.S. average fossil fuel area of I) FOSSIL 1.13 0.84 0.91 3.70 6.53 3.70 1324 1.49 1.16 1.82 5.38 1.82 waste: II) ARABLE 0.91 III) PASTURE 1.11 1.42 1.73 1.94 IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP VI) SEA 3.53 I) FOSSIL II) ARABLE III) PASTURE IV) FOREST V) BUILT UP VI) SEA TOTAL Factors 1.8 3.5 0.4 1.8 3.5 0.1 Footprint 823 112 0 0 25 0 960

goods:

services:

807

1196

Ecological Footprint Assessment: The Results

Your per capita footprint is 0 hectares.

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The Ecological Footprint per household member

I) FOSSIL ENERGY LD. 0 0 0 1,443 0 0 1,443

(presented as a land-use consumption matrix) expressed in average land with world average productivity [in square meters]

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE

II) ARABLE III) PASTURE IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP LAND LAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 396 0 0 90 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 396 0 0 90

VI) SEA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

TOTAL
0 0 0 1,929 0 0

TOTAL

1,929

Ecological Footprint distribution

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE I) FOSSIL ENERGY LD. 0% 0% 0% 75% 0% 0% 75% II) ARABLE LAND 0% 0% 0% 21% 0% 0% 21% III) PASTURE 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% IV) FOREST 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% V) BUILT-UP LAND 0% 0% 0% 5% 0% 0% 5% VI) SEA 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

TOTAL
0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0%

TOTAL

100%

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Assess your Household's Ecological Footprint

First, choose whether you want to work with metric or US measurements.

Second, register your monthly consumption in column D (or your yearly consumption in colum Number of people in the household:

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD Enter percentage of food purchased that is wasted rather than eaten in your household. How much of the food that you buy is locally grown, unprocessed and in-season?

Units

.Veggies, potatoes & fruit .Bread and bakery products .Flour, rice, noodles, cereal products .Beans and other dried pulses .Milk, cream, yogurt, sour cream .Ice cream, other frozen dairy .Cheese, butter .Eggs [assumed to be 50 g each] .Meat ..Pork ..Chicken, turkey ..Beef (grain fed) ..Beef (pasture fed) .Fish .Sugar .Vegetable oil & fat ..solid ..liquid .Coffee & tea .Juice & wine .Beer .Garden [area used for food] .Eating out SUB-TOTAL-1 2.-HOUSING .House [living area] ..wooden house (US standard) ..brick house .Yard [or total lot size incl. building] . Hotels, Motels .Electricity (also check composition--see note)

[kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [l] [l] [kg] [number] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [l] [kg] [l] [l] [m2] [$]

[m2] [m2] [m2] [$] [kWh]

enter as fraction. ex. 25% = 0.25 ..thermally produced (fossil and nuclear) ..lower course hydro ..high altitude hydro ..PV solar (on existing roof areas) ..solar ..PV [onsolar newly (on built-up newlyarea] built-up area) ..wind ..geothermal ..biomass .Fossil gas (natural gas) ..city gas ..bottled liquid petroleum gas (e.g. propane) .Liquid fossil fuel (fuel oil, kerosene) .Coal .Water (not included since it depends on local circumstances) .Water, sewer, garbage service .Straw .Firewood .Constr. wood & furniture .Major appliances .Computers and electronic equipment .Small appliances SUB-TOTAL-2

[m3] [l] [l] [kg] [m3] [$] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg]

Footprint Calculation M
CATEGORIES 3.- TRANSPORTATION .Bus, transit .Bus, intercity .Train, transit .Train, intercity (Amtrak) .Taxi / rental/ other's car average fuel efficiency .Car (your own) average fuel efficiency .Parts for repair .Airplane (e)conomy, (b)usiness or (f)irst class? SUB-TOTAL-3 4.-GOODS .Clothes and textiles (if bought used, count them at 1/3 of their weight) ..cotton ..wool ..fossil based (synthetic) Durable paper products (books) and hygenic paper products (toilet/tissue paper) .Metal items, tools .Leather Units

[pers.*km] [pers.*km] [pers.*km] [pers.*km]

[km] [liters] [km] [liters] [kg]

[pers.*hours]

[kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg]

.Plastic products and photos .Porcelain, glass .Medicine .Hygiene products, cleaning stuff .Cigarettes, other tobacco products SUB-TOTAL-4 5.-SERVICES .Postal services ..international ..domestic .Dry cleaning or external laundry service .Telephone .Medical insurance and services .Household insurance .Entertainment .Education SUB-TOTAL-5 6.- WASTE (assuming everything compostable is composted, and waste = packaging) .Household waste: ..paper and paperboard ..aluminum ..other metal ..glass ..plastic SUB-TOTAL-6

[kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg]

[kg] [kg] [$] [$] [$] [$] [$] [$]

[kg] [kg] [kg] [kg] [kg]

CORRECTION FACTORS FOR THE U.S. 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE U.S. average fossil fuel area of

goods:

Ecological Footprint Assessment: The Results

Your per capita fo

The Ecological Footprint per household member

(presented as a land-use consumption matrix)

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE

TOTAL

Ecological Footprint distribution

CATEGORIES 1.-FOOD 2.-HOUSING 3.-TRANSPORTATION 4.-GOODS 5.-SERVICES 6.-WASTE

TOTAL

Note: The ecological footprint does not document our entire impact on nature. It only in words, it shows those resources that within given limits can be regenerated and those w contradiction with sustainability, however, there is no footprint, since nature cannot cop inorganic toxins, radioactive materials, or bio-hazardous waste. For a sustainable world assessed engages in none of these systematically unsustainable activities, be it for exa household chemicals.

by Mathis Wackernagel, Ritik Dholakia, Diana Deumling, and Dick Rich

: put "m" for metric, "s" for US stan

nsumption in column E). Optional: put the dollar amounts into column F.
1 AMOUNT per month eqv. amount per year Dollars I) FOSSIL spent (mth) ENERGY II) ARABLE LAND III) PASTURE

26% b

100% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

( 26 percent is the national average) a. Most food we buy is packaged, out of season and from b. About a quarter c. About half d. About three quarters e. Most all the food we get is locally grown, unprocessed, 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0

88% 9% 1% 0% 0.03% 0.1% 0.4% 1.5% 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

rint Calculation Matrix for Households

AMOUNT per month eqv. amount per year Dollars spent (mth) I) FOSSIL ENERGY II) ARABLE LAND III) PASTURE

0 0 0 0 0 20 0 20 0.0 0.0 e

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0.0 0.0 0.0 0 0 0.0

0 0 0 0 0 0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0

0 0 0 0 1.0

0 0 0 0 12

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 205 205

75 75

0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

$0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00 $0.00

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0.0

0 0 0 0 0 0

enter percentage recycled in your household: $0.00 0 42% $0.00 0 28% $0.00 0 35% $0.00 0 26% $0.00 0 5% $0.00 0 0 0

I) FOSSIL 1.13 0.84 0.91 3.70 6.53 3.70 1324

II) ARABLE 0.91

III) PASTURE 1.11

IV) FOREST 1.42

V) BUILT-UP 1.73 1.94

VI) SEA 3.53

1.49

1.16

services:

807

1.82 5.38 1.82 waste:

1196

e Results
0 hectares.

r per capita footprint is

use consumption matrix) expressed in average land with world average productivity [in square meters] I) FOSSIL ENERGY LD. 0 0 0 1,443 0 0 1,443 II) ARABLE LAND 0 0 0 396 0 0 396 III) PASTURE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IV) FOREST 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 V) BUILT-UP LAND 0 0 0 90 0 0 90 VI) SEA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

I) FOSSIL ENERGY LD. 0% 0% 0% 75% 0% 0% 75%

II) ARABLE LAND 0% 0% 0% 21% 0% 0% 21%

III) PASTURE 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

IV) FOREST 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

V) BUILT-UP LAND 0% 0% 0% 5% 0% 0% 5%

VI) SEA 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

on nature. It only includes those aspects of our waste production and resource consumption that cou erated and those wastes that at sufficiently low levels can be absorbed by the biosphere. For all act nature cannot cope with them. There is no sustainable regenerative rate for substances such as hea a sustainable world, their use needs to be phased out. In other words, the above footprint calculation ivities, be it for example the release of CFCs, the unsafe disposal of motor oil, or the purchase, use

kia, Diana Deumling, and Dick Richardson, Redefining Progress, v 2.0, March 2000

ut "m" for metric, "s" for US standard

(land and sea space in square meters) IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP LAND VI) SEA

packaged, out of season and from far away.

get is locally grown, unprocessed, and in-season.

sayuran, kentang, dan buah2an

kacang-kacangan kering lbs:pound qts: quarts

0 0 0 0

0 0

0 0

.....CONTINUED page #2 of 3 (land and sea space in square meters) IV) FOREST V) BUILT-UP LAND VI) SEA

0.0 0.0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 25 25

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Equivalence Unadjusted Factors I) FOSSIL II) ARABLE III) PASTURE IV) FOREST V) BUILT UP VI) SEA TOTAL 1.8 3.5 0.4 1.8 3.5 0.1 Footprint 823 112 0 0 25 0 960

Constants and Conversion Factors Carbon absorption factor (m^2/kj/yr) Pre-purchase food loss Structural consumption Weight conversion (kg/lb) Area conversion (acres/ha) Area conversion (m^2/ft^2) Volume conversion (l/qt)

oductivity [in square meters]

TOTAL
0 0 0 1,929 0 0

1,929

TOTAL
0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0%

100%

rce consumption that could potentially be sustainable. In other the biosphere. For all activities that are systematically in r substances such as heavy metals, persistent organic and bove footprint calculation assumes that the person being oil, or the purchase, use and disposal of other harmful

onversion Factors 10000/73000 1.1 1.0825 0.454 2.47 0.093 0.946