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Measuring your Ecological Footprint Resources Measuring your Ecological Footprint National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

Ecological What is your Footprint? National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

Planet Can everyone on the Live like you do? National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

If everyone on the planet lived like a typical American, we would need 4½ Earths to support them all! National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

Not everyone has the same Ecological Footprint. India China Costa Rica United States France National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

What are the resources the Earth provides? Biocapacity: the ability of the environment to provide the resources we need to live What are the resources the Earth provides?

What happens if the Earth reached Ecological Overshoot? Ecological Overshoot: when a population uses more resources than the environment can provide What happens if the Earth reached Ecological Overshoot?

Is China in danger of Ecological Overshoot? Graph from footprintnetwork.org National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

How can we avoid Ecological Overshoot? Footprint Time

What can you do to reduce your Ecological Footprint? National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy

National Sustainability Teachers’ Academy