Your Footprint -- Take the Quiz

Have you ever been interested in what your ecological footprint would look like? I'm sure that you have heard somewhere that we would need many "planet earths" to sustain our human footprint if we continue to go at this rate. Well, I took the quiz myself to see how I was doing. Wow.. I will tell you what it had to say about me with as honest answers as possible and then explain where I think some errors occur. They say that the average footprint in the United States is 24 acres per person (wow) and that there are 4.5 biologically productive acres per person. They also said that I am using about 18 acres (I'm a bit embarrassed) and that it would take 4.1 planets if everyone lived as I did. Dang. Here is where the problem with this quiz lies, at least with me. We are a rather small "city" with about 40,000 people (including the state university) residing. We have - in the last several weeks -- just started a public transportation service but it mainly services the college. They are not even pushing for people to use it! It is very cold during the winter (temps can be as low at -30) and riding my bicycle is tough as there is also snow on the ground. My other problem is that I have to drive an SUV (sorry guys) so that we can pull our catering trailer (If a hybrid could do the job and get around snowing streets, I would do it!) So, that is my defense. I have a long way to go to get down to down to 2 planets like Green LA Girl. Hey, I'm trying! But what would it take to be at 1 planet -- that is all we have you know.. ..be bold