Economy Blogpost

My starting ecological footprint was a 4.4 with 39% services, 13% food, 21% shelter, 13% mobility, and 14% goods. Most of this came from the fact that my house uses a lot of electricity. After my day of trying to reduce my ecological footprint, I was suprised to find out that changing my diet to becoming practically a vegitarian did absolutely nothing to help my footprint. A day wasted... But, i did not drive my car, which gets about 13mpg and that took my footprint all the way down to 3.9. I remembered to turn off the lights when I left a room and shut off the water when I was brushing my teeth, but I dont know what that will do to my monthly electricity bill so I did not change that part. I was suprised by the fact that changing my diet did not change my footprint, so I decided to mess around and make a perfect ecological man. That dude still used up 2.2 earths.... wtc? Anyways, it is cost effective to reduce my ecological footprint to a degree. It would be more cost effective to get a car with better gas mileage and to use less electricity because both of those would cut down on my bills i have to pay. But it is not always convenient. If I had to get up hours earlier than I already do to sit at the bus stop to get to school everyday I would not be a happy camper. I believe most people live their lifestyles the way they do because of the convenience of being able to do their own thing on their own time.