CABE’s footprints
Following on from the Think conference on 3 May 2007, CABE have issued details of their various footprints. Good to see the old standard ecological footprint making an appearance again - carbon footprints had eclipsed them for a while then:
CABE’s carbon footprint is 503 tonnes a year, or 4.6 tonnes per person. CABE’s ecological footprint, measuring impacts on other people as well as on the planet, totals 227 global hectares a year, or 2.3 global hectares per person. A sustainable ‘earthshare’ is much lower, at between 1.7 and 1.8 hectares.
The full report is available as a pdf here (32 pages).
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A timely reminder Mel. In our rush to be carbon zero or neutral we are in danger on worst impact elsewhere. It is indeed good to see a measure of impact on other people again. Our approaches need to be balanced, as in the time proven triptych from Patrick Geddes - fit for planet, for people and for purpose.
It concerns me that our need (or greed) for bio-fuels for example is now devastating forests and food growing land around the world, as bio-fuel becomes the new cash crop.
Yesterdays Guardian article Full Steam Ahead illustrates the unbalanced direction we are taking in the UK.
(I will post this comment on my blog at http://fairsnape.wordpress.com/ with links.