In one of the text we are supposed to read for the seminar the author mentions "Global Footprint Network". I looked it up online and found out that you can gather a lot of interesting information about different types of footprints we leave after us. You can look up footprints based on countries, cities, businesses etc. Sweden actually isn't in as bad trouble as a lot of other countries according to their information, which is encouraging for Swedes. But overall you can see that it's not looking good for a lot of countries.
They also have a footprint calculator where you can calculate your own personal footprint. Unfortunatly you can't do the calculations for Sweden, but you can still choose other countries and see what your footprint would have been if you lived there. It's pretty basic and you should take it with a grain of salt, but it is still fun (or disturbing) to see how big of an ecological footprint you leave behind.
Link to the calculator:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/calculators/
Link to the homepage:
http://www.footprintnetwork.org/
I found this similar site and all the calculations are from Sweden.
ReplyDelete"The average Swede Consumption leads to emissions of 10 tonnes CO2e per year, or 8 tonnes CO2e if public sector consumption is not included." and "The sustainable level of emissions lies in the interval 0.7 to 1.5 tonnes CO2e per capita and year, depending on which source you use." that's what Naturskyddföreningen writes on their own website "The climate account: calculate your own carbon footprint".
A website where you can calculate how much CO2e you emit a year and how you can reduce it, how much C02e would the entire world emit if everyone lived like me, and some other tips you can use to try to reduce your carbon footprint.
I hope your carbon foot print is not so high that mine! :(
( 5.6 tonnes CO2e)
link to the calculator:
http://www.naturskyddsforeningen.klimatkontot.se/Default.aspx
(you can do the test in swedish or english)
/connie
Ding
ReplyDeleteDing
Ecological footprints are interesting - perhaps it's a topic you could raise at this week's seminar(s)? Also, something to think about is the fraction that Media/ICT represents in relation to the larger whole...