Here’s an interesting exercise to measure your ecological footprint. I did a similar but more professional quiz for my class on Environment Assessment last fall.
The world has only 4.5 biologically productive acres/person. This particular quiz reports my footprint to be 18 acres/person, mainly because I reported the average distance I drive every week to be [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Environment’
October 2, 2006
Footprints in the sands of time
August 13, 2006
What’s Nature worth ?
When I took the ‘Environment & Population Assement’ class last year, we had an economic professor from Rice University come in and give a guest lecture on the economics of environmental policy-making. To be honest, he went a little too in-depth into economic theories for a public health class. But I did learn about the [...]
August 6, 2006
A green future
The School of Nursing at the UT Health Science Center here in Houston is a wonderful example of green architecture, and has been selected as one of the top 10 green projects for 2006.
The building happens to be adjacent to my school, and one of my first public health courses was taught there. It was [...]
August 6, 2006
Bottled blues
There are two remarkable facts regarding drinking water that I have observed as a newcomer to the US.
One is that tap water is perfectly drinkable. This may seem unremarkable to all Americans, but it is an abolute marvel to folks from developing countries where safe drinking water is a precious commodity. Certainly, all Indian households [...]
