My Footprint

After taking the first footprint test, these were my results:
Category Global Hectares
-Food -3.3
-Mobility -0.7
-Shelter -1.2
-Goods/ Service -2.0
TOTAL FOOTPRINT -7.2
If everyone lived like me, we would need 4 planets.

Next, I took the future life-style footprint quiz and this was the result:
F4: Factor Four
As people reinvent a new kind of quality of life in local communities, true wealth spreads more evenly. The ecological footprint is reduced overall by a factor of four, by combining increased efficiency, better distribution, and zero-waste closed cycle production and consumption.

In order to reduce my footprint, I could do a couple of things. For food, I could choose local, and fresh foods instead of packaged and processed food. As for the mobility section, I could car pool with friends, choose to ride my bike more often, and in the future buy a fuel efficient vehicle. It is a little difficult to lessen my footprint when it comes to shelter. At this point, I cannot change the house I live in, or the number of people that inhabit it. In the future, perhaps in university, I could share a home with several room mates. The goods/ service section I could alter. I could choose to purchase less services like dry cleaning, mechanics etc.
In conclusion, I think this would lower my footprint by a large quantity. We all have to do our part in incorporating change, this could be somewhere to start.