A creative new tool ... a bookend to complement the ecological footprint.  The Ecological footprint has been a fantastic tool, allowing us to observe, no holds barred, the effect that our consumption choices have on this fragile, beautiful orb in space. The ecological footprint program, like the marks we leave behind in the sand, tells us where we have been. This is very useful. If we forget our history, we risk repeating it.

But more important is the future.

We can just let the future happen or we can take steps to shape it.  Once we realise, the impact we are having as individuals, groups and nations, it is time to start planning just how to begin reducing that impact.  Having made a decision to repair our footprint - the ecological fingerprint tool will help us map out a plan for our future.

Apparently, in Australia, we spend more time thinking about and planning our footy tips for the weekend, than we do thinking about our long term financial survival such as through planning superannuation.

However, you can be sure we do spend way more time planning super than we do thinking about and planning our long term relationship with the Earth and how to make our lives increasingly sustainable!

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Four pillars of the fingerprint

• That there is such a bevy of waste built into our lifestyle. For more information, see Footprint Flab.
• Alongside that, UNEP and empirical information indicates that up to 30% reductions in consumption are readily available simply through a mindset/behaviour shift.
  
• Sustainable Living Is Not Rocket Surgery - we all know what pollution and waste looks like. There is so much that can be achieved through the so called "little things", the easy wins on the 'low -hanging fruit tree'. All the information is out there, just ask google.
  
• If not now when?  Clearly this is the time in history to drop everything and do a bit of work every day to live differently.  What further signals do we need from nature?  And, with so much "sustainability" in the air these days it is only going to get easier and easier, while each day that goes by without action it becomes more and more urgent.

With thanks...
Dr David Suzuki has endorsed the ecological fingerprint
The eco fingerprint has been made possible through the support of the Randwick City Council.