Working together, we investigated our ecological footprint. We learnt that our ecological footprint is a measure of the amount of cropland, grazing land, forest and fishing grounds required to produce the food, fibre and timber we use and need to absorb the wastes we create. In Australia, we're consuming more than three times our fair share of the planet's natural resources, and that it would take three Earth's to maintain our current resource use! We estimated our own ecological footprint using handouts and found our lowest was 16 and highest 48, with most scoring around 26. We discussed ways we could reduce our impact on our Earth's resources by making better choices, reducing, reusing and recycling in our everyday lives.
Challenge: Ask your family to try the ecological footprint calculator and discuss ways you can Save Our Planet! as part of thinking day.
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