Living Planet Report 2010

[glenc]

The report measures the amount of natural resources needed to sustain each person's lifestyle, or ecological footprint, which is expressed in units called global hectares (gha).
For Australians, 6.8 gha per person is needed each year to sustain our lifestyles, thanks largely to our carbon emissions and grazing footprint.
This compares to 8 gha for those in the United States, 4.9 gha for United Kingdom residents and 2.2 gha for people living in China.
The nation with the largest ecological footprint is the United Arab Emirates at 10.7 gha per person.
[NZ is less than the UK]

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/aussies-live-beyond-sustainability-wwf-20101014-16l39.html

On average, the footprint of high-income countries is five times bigger than that of low-income countries. And carbon now accounts for more than half the global ecological footprint.

http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/about_us/living_planet_report_2010/

[Ric]

An interesting report Glen

Hopefully my ecological footprint is a lot lower as we practice permaculture and sustanable living on our farm. We grow most of our vegetables and fruit as well as keeping chickens.

Our latest addition are bee's which are quite prolific honey makers we are starting off with two hives and hope to build that up to four next year. The idea is to sell the excess honey at our local markets which will the pay for the setup cost of the hives as well as the upkeep of chickens and vegetable gardens.

cheers

[glenc]

Yes, it is easy to be more efficient and it saves money too.

[glenc]

Another report.
This table ranks 104 countries, according to their overall abilities to foster the nine drivers of prosperity. It also provides the breakdown of the sub-index performances that lead to the overall rank.
http://www.prosperity.com/rankings.aspx

For Australia
http://www.prosperity.com/country.aspx?id=AS