Applying Sustainability to Personal Contexts: Describing and Critically Analyzing Your Ecological Fo

Part A: Describing your Ecological Footprint Analysis

Part A and Part B:  Applying Sustainability to Personal Contexts

Part A:  Describing your Ecological Footprint Analyse

Your personal impact on the environment by:

(a)Complete an Ecological Footprint calculator. Provide a screenshot of your results.

(b)Please provide a link to the website you used. 

(c)Identify and discuss the results of your Ecological Footprint that were shown to be higher than average usage when you finished the calculation.

Part B:  Critically Analyse your Ecological Footprint

Overview of the task:

Define a relevant sustainability theory and critically analyse your day to day activities discussing at least five (5) ways that you could reduce your Ecological Footprint. Please include the following in your answer:

Tasks:

1Briefly define a relevant sustainability theory that could be applied in this situation.

2Discuss how you would apply the sustainability theory to your own life. 

You must include in your discussion:

(a)From your use of the calculators (in Part A) identify at least five (5) specific activities that you are currently doing that increase your ecological footprint.

(b)Explain what you could do to reduce your ecological footprint for each of the five activities listed in 2 (a) above. Your explanation should also provide an alternative to the activity that shows both an understanding of sustainability theory and is practical, achievable and affordable for you at the moment.

Remember to use correct APA referencing when referring to any theories or other secondary material.