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What's a global footprint?
The Earth has a limited number of resources and we're using them up more quickly than they can be replaced - if they can be replaced at all.
At school you use resources when you eat food and drink water. The school uses energy to make the lights and computers work and to keep the rooms warm. The clothes you wear and the building itself are made from nature's resources.
We all use these resources in different amounts. The amount we use is called our Ecological Footprint - that is the impact that we have on planet Earth.
The Schools' Global Footprint has a Global Footprint Calculator to help you to work out the quantity of resources that you and your school use, compared with what is available in the world. You can see if this is sustainable for the future and you'll get suggestions on how to reduce your impact on the planet.
What to do
The Global Footprint Calculator is has six sections which you can work through, filling in the calculator pages as you go.
If you use the login box at the bottom of each page of the Global Footprint Calculator you can store your details, see how many of the sections you have completed and come back to it later.
Downloadable workbook
To help with your research, you can download all the tables from the Global Footprint Calculator in this workbook. Either save it as an Excel spreadsheet file or print off the workbook in PDF format.
You can record your information in the workbook so when you go to the calculator pages in each section you will have the numbers already worked out.
Excel file: Schools' Global Footprint Workbook (291 KB)
PDF file: Schools' Global Footprint Workbook (141 KB)The workbook also includes Action Plan tables to help you work out ways to reduce your environmental impact.