Dear Franziska

Calculating individual ecological footprints, in my view, is very difficult, because of the cultural and contextual differences to which people are submitted to, or living through. I am not sure whther such type of caluclation would clarify your query: identify obstacles that prevent people to act ecofriendly. Sudies of sustainability in education, mainly in higher education, have highlighted that there is a huge gap between knowldedge about sustainability and action towards a sustainable society. People know and are aware of their own harmful behaviour as consumer that impact the environment, but it seems it does not change the way they act. There are Social Theories as Planned Behaviour Theory, for instance, that seem able to help to investigate this subject in details. I am sorry, but I do not believe that calculation, as first approach, will help to understand obstacles for people do not act in ecofriendly way. I think it is more valuable to try to investigate the reflective gap between knowing and acting when it relates to sustainable action. Please, see Azjen work (Attempt Theory, Azjen, you can find several papers in acaademic data bases, and in Google Scholar). Kind regards.

Dear Franziska,

just a few (because there are many):

http://de.myclimate.org/de/?gclid=CIOxwcyNx9ECFWEo0wodG40MlQ

http://klimaohnegrenzen.de/klimawissen/okologischer-fussabdruck

http://www.mein-fussabdruck.at/

best regards

Johannes

http://www.tuhuellaecologica.org/

http://huella-ecologica.ambiente.gob.ec/login.php

https://www.greencred.me/footprintcalculator/

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

Son algunas paginas que te puedes ayudar

Saludos

Here are a three online calculator's for the individual's ecological footprint. Notice that these calculators calculate the carbon-equivalent of the ecological footprint.

http://www.nature.org/greenliving/carboncalculator/

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/

I like the last one sponsored by EPA. However, you can benchmark the results from all of them.

Hope this helps answer your question.

Professor Yehia Khalil, Yale University, USA

Fellow of the University of Oxford, UK

One calculator not previously mentioned:

http://carbonindependent.org/

 Please see the link below

http://carbonindependent.org/

WWF has one: http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/questionnaires/show/1/1/1

Carbon footprint has another: http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx

dear Franziska,

I suggest:

http://www.coolcalifornia.org/calculator-households-individuals

https://www3.epa.gov/carbon-footprint-calculator/

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk/

good work

Dear Franziska

Interesting calculator:

http://footprint.wwf.org.uk

Regards

Paweł

Dear Franziska

Calculating individual ecological footprints, in my view, is very difficult, because of the cultural and contextual differences to which people are submitted to, or living through. I am not sure whther such type of caluclation would clarify your query: identify obstacles that prevent people to act ecofriendly. Sudies of sustainability in education, mainly in higher education, have highlighted that there is a huge gap between knowldedge about sustainability and action towards a sustainable society. People know and are aware of their own harmful behaviour as consumer that impact the environment, but it seems it does not change the way they act. There are Social Theories as Planned Behaviour Theory, for instance, that seem able to help to investigate this subject in details. I am sorry, but I do not believe that calculation, as first approach, will help to understand obstacles for people do not act in ecofriendly way. I think it is more valuable to try to investigate the reflective gap between knowing and acting when it relates to sustainable action. Please, see Azjen work (Attempt Theory, Azjen, you can find several papers in acaademic data bases, and in Google Scholar). Kind regards.

Many of these tools are for carbon footprints - not the same thing as an ecological footprint.  For example http://ecologicalfootprint.com/, which translate impacts into land area.

I sort of agree with Claudia in that calculators themselves are unlikely to change behaviour - but they can be useful in highlighting which areas for individuals to focus on as part of an engagement programme.

Dear Franziska, we are working on this topic in Germany. We are looking at cities from a bottom up perspective. Layer one, the user unit from the inside, layer two, the building plus piece of land, layer 3 if independent a village if not, a neigbourhood, layer 4 if independent, a town (up to 20.000 inhabitants) if not a civil parish , layer five a district etc.. Seen from this perspective, the layer four units are the highest that are understood bij the citizens from an emotional and intuitive perspective.

The higher the layer, the more abstract it becomes. You can not compare "cities", they are far too different and too small in number. But you can very well compare the layer three and four units.

We are setting up an approach to get the footprint for these layer four units, with the number of people doing a personal carbon footprint in those units as one parameter. Then we want to start a sustainability competition between comparable layer three and four units. That may seem far fetched, but people in Europe now their layer four units very well, know them by name and have for instance soccer-clubs there that perform a fierce competition with other towns and wards with very much fun.

Playfull competition is very deeply embedded in our genes. We should use that and start a sustainability competition between these basic units of man kind. I attach a brief of the most important thesis of my work in English that is the basis for this work.

Here is a footprint check that is connected to the civil parish "Blankenese" in Hamburg.

http://blankenese.co2-rechner.de/de_DE/

This is an adaptation of the footprint calculator from the federal government.

So the number of people that are doing this check in Blankenese is one parameter. The second is the footprint of Blankenese as a whole, then the third is comparing these parameters with comparable civil parishes and then stimulating these units to learn from each other und to compete with each other.

With kind regards

Harris Tiddens