One for James

    http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index_reset.asp?pid=379818142458096

Assesses (or attempts to) the amount of viable area in hectares 
required to sustain you.

Available world hectares of biologically productive land is 1.8 per 
person.
My score was 4.8 hectares.
My country's average was said to be 7.6.
I was surprised to be rated so low wrt my country average and not at 
all surprised wrt world average.

I've never attempted to assess my "carbon footprint".
I'm not at all convinced, as you might expect, that such measures are 
meaningful or useful, although I'm happy with the idea of attempting 
to reduce resource utilisation.
My hope long term is to have a large and negative one, regardless of 
the usefulness of the measure.

If things work out as I hope they may in the near future then I should 
be on the way to producing a personal extremely large negative carbon 
footprint. Probably arguably a large negative ecological one too. 
Working on the theory that if one aids a large number of people in 
reducing theirs then one is due a percentage of the "spoils". I'll 
tell you about it if it comes to pass.



        Russell



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