NSEE8300-EH.Environmental Footprints.Sp14.Hessler,Edward

It\u27s not just how many footprints mark our presence on Earth; it\u27s how big those footprints are. The typical American uses an estimated four times the resources of someone from other cultures. Create a personal environmental impact statement while investigating the math, science and social implications of how we live. The Ecological Footprint is a tool used to measure an entity\u27s impact on the Earth\u27s available resources- an individual, a school, a city, or a nation. As participants learn more about how much of Earth\u27s biologically productive land they use, they develop an awareness of how consumption patterns relate to environmental equity. If Americans are using more resources than we can produce, we are, in a sense, using up someone else\u27s stuff. Teachers can use the Environmental Footprint as an objective tool to measure the global consequences of our actions as individual consumers, and as members of a larger culture