The eco footprint exercise was created by Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, two professors of British Columbia. I believe this was an extremely impactful way to educate people on the state or world is in. I was personally shocked by the result I received from this process. I consider myself fairly resourceful and I imagined I would be the medium on the scale of wastefulness. To my surprise I was only .3 off of the actual norm 5 planet earths. Many of the options I selected were in the middle, and none were the extreme.
I admired the accuracy of this graph, because it removed the anonymous value of our global statistics. I myself viewed the worlds waste statistics as a problem distant from myself. I quickly learned I too was not only part of the problem, but I played a large role. Before when looking at the statistic its an average of the whole human race, you think more of corporations doing the damage. This quiz puts your face as part of the problem saying "look this is what you've contributed to the problem". Another strong point is earthday.net allows you to create a login to edit and update your footprint. This is extremely valuable due to the fact it encourages people to progress. If there was particular category I scored extremely low on I can do something about it and overtime work my way to becoming a more earth safe consumer.
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