Further things to do (activity 8)
- Calculate your personal Ecological Footprint.
- Calculate your household's Ecological Footprint.
- Calculate your school's Ecological Footprint.
- Brainstorm ways we could reduce our personal, family, community Ecological Footprint
- Develop an action plan to reduce Ecological Footprint through energy conservation, waste minimisation, etc.
- Watch the Al Gore film, An Inconvenient Truth.
- Audit your family possessions.
Using a digital camera, photograph all of the items in your house/ bedroom. Using the digital photos create a collage/poster showing all of the stuff you have. Alternatively cut out pictures from magazines to represent your possessions.
How might your family possessions compare to those of a typical family in say Nepal? (In terms of eg. quantity, type, resources used)
More activities
Check the student activities about Ecological Footprint, life cycle thinking and water, energy and greenhouse gases.