Ecofootprint
The Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) is an awareness tool, which allows individuals, governments, and businesses to understand in a representative way, their ecological impact on Earth. The concept, developed in 1966, aims to represent all the natural resources that is consumed by human activity. Although EFA has its limitations, it is an effective method for a person or institution to determine its current footprint and then make appropriate decisions and actions towards it (Bunker, n.d., paras. 1-4).
My personal Ecofootprint
The purpose of this paper is to allow me to identify my personal sustainability value position, my beliefs, and my opinions towards sustainability. More importantly, it is for me to understand how my habits …show more content…
Source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
Even though my result was slightly better than the average Ontario resident, it is still a shocking result. I expected that my ecological footprint were negatively significant, but I was surprised to realize it actually takes almost three Earths to support my living.
There are many possible changes that I can make, but I understand they will happen in different times, mainly because of my financial and Canada newcomer situation. In this paper, I present my action plan in short term period, divided in three different areas, as follows:
Short term actions
1. Food: Reduce the frequency of meat eaten. Currently, we eat meat, mostly chicken, in a highly frequency, almost every day. As our first step, we can commit ourselves to eat meat 4 days a week, chicken, red meat, and pork included. We will add fish twice a week and once a week we will not eat any meat. Also, we will reduce our daily consumption of dairy and milk. Moreover, we will look for local growers and buy fresh products produced near us, reducing the need of transportations, packaging and aiming for more fresh food, especially fruits and …show more content…
Its applications aim to promote changes in behaviours in deportments to reduce negative impacts on the environment.
Carbon taxes policies or cap and trade systems are examples of weak sustainable instruments, implemented by governments (Neumayer, 2010, p.163). Recently, Ontario announced its cap and trade program “designed to help fight climate change, and reward businesses that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions” (Ontario, 2016, para. 1).
On the contrary, strong sustainability asserts that natural resources are not capable of being substituted, that the hunt for economic growth is the essential problem, and propound that wide-ranging ecological solutions should be developed to address environmental issues (Neumayer, 2010, p.163).
John Barry (2011) illustrates one particular example of strong sustainability, saying that “compensatory afforestation schemes, especially if such schemes replace like with like (in terms of the type of trees and quantity) (p. 378). Another relevant example of strong sustainability is related to peat moss harvesting and it is occurring in
The Ecological Footprint Analysis (EFA) is an awareness tool, which allows individuals, governments, and businesses to understand in a representative way, their ecological impact on Earth. The concept, developed in 1966, aims to represent all the natural resources that is consumed by human activity. Although EFA has its limitations, it is an effective method for a person or institution to determine its current footprint and then make appropriate decisions and actions towards it (Bunker, n.d., paras. 1-4).
My personal Ecofootprint
The purpose of this paper is to allow me to identify my personal sustainability value position, my beliefs, and my opinions towards sustainability. More importantly, it is for me to understand how my habits …show more content…
Source: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
Even though my result was slightly better than the average Ontario resident, it is still a shocking result. I expected that my ecological footprint were negatively significant, but I was surprised to realize it actually takes almost three Earths to support my living.
There are many possible changes that I can make, but I understand they will happen in different times, mainly because of my financial and Canada newcomer situation. In this paper, I present my action plan in short term period, divided in three different areas, as follows:
Short term actions
1. Food: Reduce the frequency of meat eaten. Currently, we eat meat, mostly chicken, in a highly frequency, almost every day. As our first step, we can commit ourselves to eat meat 4 days a week, chicken, red meat, and pork included. We will add fish twice a week and once a week we will not eat any meat. Also, we will reduce our daily consumption of dairy and milk. Moreover, we will look for local growers and buy fresh products produced near us, reducing the need of transportations, packaging and aiming for more fresh food, especially fruits and …show more content…
Its applications aim to promote changes in behaviours in deportments to reduce negative impacts on the environment.
Carbon taxes policies or cap and trade systems are examples of weak sustainable instruments, implemented by governments (Neumayer, 2010, p.163). Recently, Ontario announced its cap and trade program “designed to help fight climate change, and reward businesses that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions” (Ontario, 2016, para. 1).
On the contrary, strong sustainability asserts that natural resources are not capable of being substituted, that the hunt for economic growth is the essential problem, and propound that wide-ranging ecological solutions should be developed to address environmental issues (Neumayer, 2010, p.163).
John Barry (2011) illustrates one particular example of strong sustainability, saying that “compensatory afforestation schemes, especially if such schemes replace like with like (in terms of the type of trees and quantity) (p. 378). Another relevant example of strong sustainability is related to peat moss harvesting and it is occurring in