Discovering my ecological footprint was very enlightening. I like to think I am relatively green person; I recycle and take the bus whenever I can but my footprint was still massive 4.9 global hectares! When I was playing around with the settings I noticed that by reducing my transportation, even though it was by bus, had a huge reduction on my footprint. The shows that the global hectares per person could be greatly reduced if people lived very close to there work and stores. I also noticed that by having a large amount of people living in a small space, about 2 people per bedroom also reduced my footprint a lot. However even when I reduced nearly all of factors in consideration of my ecological foot print, I noticed that it would still require 2 earths for everyone to live like me. I got an environmentally unfriendly friend of mine to take the test and he scored well above the Canadian average at 7.7 global hectares.  The reason why his footprint was so high I think was partially due to the amount of meat, dairy and processed foods he consumes. By reducing the number of meals you eat with meat and dairy a week also has a big impact on your footprint. Overall I’ve noticed that for everyone on the planet to have similar standards of living we would have to dramatically change our lives and our standards we have come accustomed to such as having our own bedroom and eating meat with at least 1 meal a day.