Sharing Nature's Interest

Nicky Chambers * Craig Simmons * Mathis Wackernagel

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1. Redefining Progress
2. Indicating Progress
3. Footprinting Foundations
4. Footprinting Fundamentals
5. From Activities to Impacts
6. 20 Questions about Footprinting
7. Global  and National Footprints
8. Regional Footprinting
9. The Impacts of Organizations & Services
10. Footprinting for Product Assessment
11. Footprinting Lifestyles
12. Next Steps

Chapter 11:Links & Resources

Estimate your own footprint using this simple online calculator from Redefining Progress (based on US data)
Calculate your footprint (Imperial)
Calculate your footprint (metric)

Also from Redefining Progress, download this spreadsheet to more accurately calculate your footprint
zipped version (39k)
stuffed version (38k) (requires StuffIt Expander)
Excel 5.0 file (139k) (save as text)

Personal FootCalc - a visual lifestyle calculator from Best Foot Forward
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mail the authors with your own suggested useful links for Chapter 11

Chapter 11 Summary

This chapter deals more directly with the impacts of our day-to-day lifestyles. Starting with a description of the EcoCal software package - designed to allow households to measure the size of their footprint - the authors  go on to compare various lifestyle alternatives.