Personal Footprint and Sustainability Analysis

Running head: SUSTAINABLITY
Personal footprint, product and organisational sustainability analysis
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Question 1:
Figure 1: Results
Figure 1: results

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Question 2:
a) Ecological footprint can be described as the biological area that is required by an individual
for his or her survivability and sustenance. The ecological footprint can be measured in term of
the of the global hectares. The global hectares is actually the area that is required to biological
production and average world productivity. It is important to mention that 2.5 acres of land is
equal to one hectare of ecological footprint is equal to 10000 metre square. It is also important to
highlight that a total of 1.7 global hectare is area that a person requires for it sustenance and
survivability of a single person (Galli et al. 2014). It is important to mention that the calculation
has been done with the help of online calculator and this has resulted into providing a result that
highlighted that I will be requiring 4 earths equivalent area for my sustenance and survivability.
The ecological footprint that has been received and the score is 6.8 ecological footprint. Thus, it
is important to mention that the I will be requiring 54 times more space so that I can fulfil all my
consumption and survivability.
b) Carbon footprint can be defined as the quantity of the greenhouse gas that has been produced
by the human activities by both the indirect and direct activities. This is expressed in term of the
carbon dioxide (Mancini et al. 2016). After calculating from the online calculator, it has been
given a score of 9.7 tons of carbon dioxide and the per year. It is important to highlight that the
amount of carbon dioxide that is released by a typical source is calculated a specific time period.
One of the highlighting fact is that majority of the greenhouse gases are emitted from the
activities like brining fossil fuel. As per the data from the United Stes Forest survey a single tree
can sequester about 88 pounds of carbon dioxide for a period of one year. Thus, it can be said
that 220 trees will be required to sequester the amount of carbon dioxide that I am emitting due
to my activities.