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With more than six billion people living on the planet – and the number increasing by 215,000 a day – there is a growing need for everyone to understand how much of the Earth’s natural resources are available to share between us. Every individual, school, household, business and, ultimately, every country, consumes resources. At school, food is eaten and water drunk. Energy is used to heat the classrooms and travel to school. Clothes, classrooms and the building itself are all provided from nature’s resources. A school’s Global Footprint (or Ecological Footprint) is a measure of the amount of resources the school is using compared with what is available in the world. |
