1. Logo, how large is your footprint
A workshop about ecological footprints and
how You can make a difference!
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2. The Workshops Agenda
o Introduction to the NGO Svalorna Indien Bangladesh
o Introduction to the campaign Ecological Footprints
o Buzz-session: What is an ecological footprints?
o What are the facts?
o What are the environmental consequences?
o A global perspective
o What is climate injustice/justice?
o Group exercise: whom is responsible/what can be done?
o What is in our power to do?
o Evaluation
o Homework: write your own environmental vowl
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3. Svalorna Indien Bangladesh
About the Swallows IB
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4. What is an ecological footprint?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP1nzCqoT9g
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5. Buzz-session: What is an ecological footprint?
•Have you heard of this concept before?
•How is it tied to sustainable development?
•How it is related to humans? To the
environment?
•Do you & your neighbour next to you have an
ecological footprint?
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6. Ecological Footprints: the facts
• Indicator that measures how us humans influences the
environment
• By showing how large land and sea areal that is required for what
we consume and produce. Also, in order to take care of the waste
that we leave after us.
• The footprint is an indicator that can apply to a person, a city, a
country and/or the whole world.
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7. Ecological Footprints: the human strains
• Food – meat, plants, grown crops
• Clothes, cosmetics, jewelery, “stuff”
• Travelling – roads and transports
• Housing – heating, appliances, furniture
• Cities – buildings, roads, industries
• The energy we use
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8. Ecological Footprints – a global perspective
If everyone lived as the average…
...Swede, we would need 3 planets
...Indian, we would need half a planet
…American, we would need more than 5 planets
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9. Total ecological footprint for the whole of humanity
Bildreferens: http://www.sp.se/sv/index/services/environment/sidor/default.aspx
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10. Consequences for our climate:
• The earth’s biodiversity is threatened
• Extreme weather will become more frequent
• Shortage of water and draught of large areas
• Flooding
• Rise of sea level (1-1,6 m this century)
• Threat for coral reafes
• Tröskeleffekter (flera saker påverkar varandra, vi kommer över
en tröskel och det går inte att vända utvecklingen)
• Större osäkerhet och oförutsägbarhet
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11. Consequences for humanity – ongoing climate
injustice
•Climate justice vs. climate injustice
•Poor/marginalized people have smaller ecological footprints than richer
people
•This group of people are the ones usually influenced in a negative way by
climate changes that are a consequence of our big ecological footprints
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12. 4 corners exercise – let’s get moving!
Question 1: What are the gravest consequences of our
consumtion and production have for the environment and
our climate?
Question 2: Who bares the most responsibility to balance the
injustice that exists today for both humans and the
environment?
Question 3: What would environmental justice be? (Everyone with
equal sized footsteps that fits one earth)
Question 4: Now that we’ve clarified what eco-footprints are –
what do you want to do with yours? (increase, decrease, keep
stable, non of the three?
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13. Homework: write your own environmental vow
Good websites for more facts, knowledge & tools:
(links are in the back of the brochure)
Footprint calculators http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/
http://myfootprint.org/en/
Feel free to e-mail us for more info & if you have
questions/comments!
E mail adress
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14. Time for evaluation – thank you!
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