December 2013, Poland - Ecological footprint

A December meeting on the issue of ecological footprint was held by Mrs Bozena Bucwinska. Each participant accounted their own ecological footprint using a special calculator –

http://www.wwf.pl/mozesz_pomoc/dzialaj_teraz/slad_ekologiczny/

The participants of the Comenius meeting in Ulm told about their visit to Germany and work on the project.

Ecological footprint – the cost of our existence on the Earth

Ecological footprint represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area necessary to supply the resources a human population consumes, and to assimilate associated waste. Using this assessment, it is possible to estimate how much of the Earth (or how many planet Earths) it would take to support humanity if everybody followed a given lifestyle. It is accounted in global hectares per person.