Ecological Footprints From Around The World Lesson Plan

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Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 2006Handout: Ecological Footprints From Around the World(Adapted from: “How big is your footprint,” Energy for a Sustainable Future — Education Project,www.esfep.org/)Ecological Footprints From Around the World:Where Do You Fit In?How Much Land Do You Need to Live?If you had to provide everything you use from your own land —how much land area would you need? This land would have toprovide you with all of your food, water, energy and everythingelse that you use. The amount of land you would need to supportyour lifestyle is called your Ecological Footprint. The ecologicalfootprint is one way of measuring the impact a person has on theenvironment.Is the World Big Enough for All of Our BIG Feet?The size of a person’s Ecological Footprint will depend on many factors. Do you growyour own food? Do you walk or drive? Do you use renewable or non-renewable energysources? Everyone has an ecological footprint because we all need to use the earth’sresources to survive. But we must make sure we don’t take more resources than theearth can provide.Different people in the same country will have different sized ecological footprints.Different countries also have different ecological footprints. For example, a person withthe average Canadian lifestyle has an ecological footprint of 8.56 hectares. A personliving in Ethiopia, Africa, has an average ecological footprint of 0.67 hectares.Examine Table 1 below to see Ecological Footprints for the average person from manydifferent countries of the world.Table 1: Global Ecological FootprintsCountryEcological Footprint(hectares per person)United States of AmericaCanadaFranceUnited KingdomEl 230.760.67Source: Ecological Footprint of Nations, 2004.-1-

Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 2006Table 2 compares some information for four countries. How would factors such aspopulation density, electricity use, and oil consumption affect the size of a person’secological footprint?Table 2: 2005 Country Comparison StatisticsCanadaGhanaVietnamEthiopia2Country Size (km )9,985,000239,000330,0001,127,000Population (million)32218373Population Density3.287.9251.564.82(people/ km )Yearly Electricity Use487.36.232.02.0(billion kilowatt-hours)Oil y)Highways (km)1,408,80046,20093,30033,300GDP* per capita 31,500 2,300 2,700 800Source: The World Factbook, 2005. www.cia.gov for all figures except those marked.*Gross Domestic Product: The value of current production of goods and services comingfrom within a country (doesn’t include all the goods and services being imported).-2-

Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 2006Student WorksheetCalculating Your Ecological FootprintOne method of calculating your ecological footprint is the Ecological Footprint Calculatorhosted by Earth Day Network. This calculator has some simple questions that are usedto calculate your ecological footprint.Go to www.earthday.org and click on Your Ecological Footprint (online survey).Complete the on-line survey for the ecological footprint calculations and then answer thequestions below.1. How does your footprint compare to the average Canadian?2. List three things you do currently that help to minimize your footprint.3. List three things you do that increase your ecological footprint.4. What are three things that you could do differently now to reduce the size of yourecological footprint?-3-

Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 2006Student Worksheet con’t.5. How does the size of your footprint compare to the average person living in Ghana?6. How many Ethiopians would use the same amount of resources as found in yourEcological Footprint?7. What are some of the factors that may contribute to Canadians having largerEcological Footprints than people in developing countries, such as Ghana or Vietnam?Explain how those factors would affect the size of the ecological footprint.-4-

Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 2006Teacher Answer SheetCalculating Your Ecological FootprintOne method of calculating your ecological footprint is the Ecological Footprint Calculatorhosted by Earth Day Network. This calculator has some simple questions that are usedto calculate your ecological footprint.Go to www.earthday.org and click on Your Ecological Footprint (online survey).Complete the on-line survey for the ecological footprint calculations and then answer thequestions below. (Note: You may choose to check this link ahead of time, sincewebsites do sometimes change over time.)Complete the on-line survey for the ecological footprint calculations and then answer thequestions below.1. How does your footprint compare to the average Canadian?Answers will vary based on student’s ecological footprint calculation. The averageCanadian ecological footprint is 8.56 hectares per person.2. List three things you do currently that help to minimize your footprint.Sample answers include: walking to school; eat fewer animal products (meat, cheese,eggs); eat locally grown food; eat unprocessed/unpackaged food; don’t travel onairplanes; use energy efficient products in the home such as energy efficient light bulbs;turn off lights, computers and electronics when not in the room; minimize wasted water(e.g., turn off the tap when brushing teeth, have short showers).3. List three things you do that increase your ecological footprint.Sample answers include: drive instead of walk to school; leave computers andelectronics turned on when not in use; eat meat products with most meals; eatprocessed foods or food not locally grown (e.g. fruit from Chile rather than Canada).4. What are three things that you could do differently now to reduce the size ofyour ecological footprint?Sample answers include: walk or take public transit more instead of driving; eat morelocally produced food; eat fewer animal products (e.g., meat, eggs, cheese); use energysaving products such as energy efficient light bulbs.-5-

Ecological Footprints From Around the World HandoutMap Your Eco-Footprint lesson plan support materialGreen Star! Newsletter May/June 20065. How does the size of your footprint compare to the average person living inGhana?The student’s ecological footprint will be larger than the average person living in Ghana.The exact difference (in hectares) can be calculated by each student by taking his/herecological footprint size and subtracting the average Ghanaian ecological footprint of1.23 hectares per person.6. How many Ethiopians would use the same amount of resources as found inyour individual Ecological Footprint?To find the answer, divide your ecological footprint by the average Ethiopian footprintsize (0.67 hectares/person). For example, the average Canadian ecological footprint of8.56 divided by 0.67 equals 12.77. Therefore, 12 people living in Ethiopia on an averagelifestyle for that country could/would use the same amount of resources as oneCanadian living an average Canadian lifestyle.7. What are some of the factors that may contribute to Canadians having largerEcological Footprints than people in developing countries, such as Ghana orVietnam? Explain how those factors would affect the size of the ecologicalfootprint. Resource consumption such as electricity, oil or water higher a person’s ecologicalfootprint. Therefore, electricity consumption, oil consumption and water consumptionare all factors that contribute to ecological footprint size. The amount of highways ina country may be a factor that contributes to ecological footprint size. It is likely that acountry with more highways will have more people driving or driving long distances inpersonal vehicles, rather than public transportation. Driving is one factor thatcontributes to a person’s ecological footprint. Canada has more length of highwaythan Ghana or Vietnam. Likely, more people in Canada own cars, drive daily (e.g.,commute to work) and drive on holidays, creating a demand for more highways andin the process creating relatively large ecological footprints. Population density can affect the size of the average ecological footprint of a person.A low population density means that there is a lot of land area per person in thatcountry. More land area and resources may be available for a person to use inhis/her lifestyle. However, if the land is very resource poor, a low population densitymay not increase ecological footprint size. Canada has a very low population densityand most Canadians have relatively large ecological footprints.-6-

the average Canadian lifestyle has an ecological footprint of 8.56 hectares. A person living in Ethiopia, Africa, has an average ecological footprint of 0.67 hectares. Examine Table 1 below to see Ecological Footprints for the average person from many different countries of

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