ecological footprint betydelse and definition

Exempel på ecological footprint

• A nation's ecological footprint refers to the area of productive land required to sustain its resource throughput requirements.

• It remains to be seen what effect worldwide consolidation in food retailing is having on the ecological footprint of farming.

• As demonstrated above, restaurants have a large ecological footprint.

• Decreased meat consumption is also better for the environment, as a vegetarian diet has a much lighter ecological footprint than its omnivorous counterpart22.

• The 'ecological footprint' is another model incorporating similar concepts into a calculation of the land area necessary for communities to self-reliantly produce food and fiber, and to cycle wastes8.

• Ambitious, firstly, as regards the reduction of our ecological footprint.

• I believe we really must reduce our ecological footprint.

• We also need to consider the whole ecological footprint of the industry, to see whether such cuts are, in the end, justified.