0 the amount of the earth's energy that someone or something uses: --
1 → environmental footprint --
Global biocapacity of a population exceeding its ecological footprint on the other hand, is suspected as an ecological overshoot.
The goal of the greenhouse was to reduce the ecological footprint of the school and to be an example of sustainability.
Of course, we could have used concepts such as 'ecological footprint' or 'factor 4' or 'factor 10', but then the programme would have been slightly different.
Moreover, the exceedingly timid reference concerning the ecological footprint and the commitment to reduce our consumption of resources by 3% per year has been removed from the conclusions.
That is a very light ecological footprint.
However, it is regrettable that total ecological footprint labelling for products is not proposed anywhere, when we really should implement it as quickly as possible.
Our ecological footprint, in other words the environmental effect of our consumption, is much greater than what the earth can cope with.
We also need to consider the whole ecological footprint of the industry, to see whether such cuts are, in the end, justified.
