How Does Lifestyle Affect Sustainability?

There is a fancy way to measure how your lifestyle affects environment. Its name is Eco Footprint. From this tool, you can know how much your life style affects the environment and how non-sustainable your lifestyle is! In modern life, people eat too much, use too much and travel too much. There is a balance that we need to think of keeping our lifestyle sustainable and relative comfortable.

Here are the health ways in my mind to minimise ecological footprint:

1. Eat more vegetables and eat less meats

2. buy local foods rather than imported foods

3. choose walking and cycling as transport modes rather than driving

4. live in relative small house/apartment

5. use solar energy

6. print less

7. buy less

8. reduce long-distance travel

Eco Footprint Calculator:

http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/gfn/page/calculators