Ecological Footprint

1. 1. What are two things that could be improved about this calculator so it more accurately reflects your footprint? One thing would be to ask how much water you use on a daily basis, perhaps how many showers are taken, dishes, laundry, etc.  As well as asking about alternate modes of transportation such as walking or biking to work.  
   2. What surprised you about your footprint? Honestly I thought my results were much better than I thought they'd be.  I thought my global acres would be much larger!
   3. According to your text, the average American footprint is big! Why is this? Because we are consumers in the biggest way, we always want more.
   4. If you do everything you can to be "green" and still have a bigger footprint than you expected, what could be contributing to this?  My choice of employment has definitely hindered my footprint, I fly a lot for work, use tons of technology and energy for work, yet while at home I try to make up for it using locally made and grown items.  I'm in the process of having a house built(I'm renting right now), that will be a lot more energy efficient, with solar panels as well.