Natalyn's Footprints

I'm really sorry for the late entries, and thanks Sam for posting it on the forum. I just got back on track with my assignments, because I was having a performance last week, and I totally forgot about all my assignments. =)


So this is my eco footprint..




I didn't know the extent of my consumption habits that will harm the earth. Obviously my consumption habits ain't environmentally friendly enough, despite my tendency to eat more vegetables rather than meat, or don't eat at all.

So time for some questions:
What can you do to reduce your own ecological footprint?
1. Reduce my meat intake
2. Making sure that I'm eating locally produced meat, rather than those with travel mileage.

What are some of the resource inputs and waste outputs of universities like the ANU and NUS and how do these contribute to their overall footprint?
1. Making sure that the temperature set in every lecture hall/tutorial room/seminar rooms are at 25 degrees cel.
2. 3Rs, Reduce Reuse Recycle.
3. Reducing energy consumption, switching off the electricity in every room after a lecture/tutorial, and not keeping it switched on for the whole day.


List some innovative strategies that the educational institutions like the ANU and NUS are doing to reduce their overall ecological footprint. Do any of these strategies challenge social or institutional "norms"? (That is, Change the way people behave or think?)
1. Creating awareness to ALL students about the harm caused by us as students.
2. Earth hour this coming Saturday.

Device 2 strategies that ANU or NUS could implement to reduce their footprint, and enhance sustainability. Who is responsible? Individuals changing their behaviour, the university changing the way it conducts business, or both? Why?
1. Decreased the printing of notes in NUS. One major plus point about NUS is the default printing of double pages, in which students can save paper and at the same time, have their notes printed.
2. Campaigns and Seminars regarding environmental sustainability should be taken more seriously and maybe universities should make it compulsory that students attend at least one of these campaigns, so to further promote sustainability

Who is Responsible?
This question is very controversial. Who can we blame? It is very hard to pinpoint on ourselves or at the school. But both sides are to be blamed for such issues at hand.