Today a friend sent me a link to take a quiz on my personal footprint on the earth’s environment.

It turned out that I had a total footprint of 2.9 that what I though when my average for my country is 2.5.
I guess this turns out to be true for most of us and it makes me wonder f i thought i was aware and try to care, and yet its not enough, what kind of results would that give for a normal, unaware citizen.

anyways at the end o the quiz i got several links where i can get started to make a bigger effort:

• Eat less meat: A plant-based diet generally requires less land, energy, and other resources. Crop-based food requires an average of 0.78 global hectares per ton of food, compared to 2.1 global hectares required to produce one ton of animal-based food. See our Frequently Asked Questions for more information on this topic (and others!).
• Drive a fuel-efficient vehicle and reduce the amount that you drive-walk, cycle, carpool, or use public transportation instead.
• Avoid purchasing disposable items with lots of packaging. Re-use items when possible, and always recycle items that are recyclable.
• Compost kitchen waste: Garbage that is not contaminated with degradable (biological) waste can be more easily recycled and sorted, and doesn’t produce methane gases (a significant greenhouse gas contributor) when stored in a landfill.
• Plant native and drought-tolerant plants in dry regions to reduce water use.
• Be a conscientious consumer—learn about sustainability-friendly products here, courtesy of The Center for a New American Dream. Also, for a teenage perspective on “buying different,” click here.
• Visit the GreenMarketplace, an online green shopping center, for all sorts of environmentally friendly products.
• Share magazines and catalogs by donating them to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ offices or by creating an informal program in which you rotate magazines and catalogs among your neighbors.
• Save trees by freeing yourself from junk mail, in three basic steps! Also courtesy of The Center for a New American Dream.
• Reuse and recycle packing materials. You can recycle materials like packing “peanuts”—simply call 1-800-828-2214 for the Plastic Loose Fill Council’s “Peanut Hotline” and they’ll tell you the nearest recycling location.