Ecological Footprint Quiz

If you're interested in finding out the shape and size of your ecological footprint, visit Earth Day Footprint Quiz and you'll know whether or not you'll need to relocate to another planet in order to sustain human life.

As for me, I took the quiz and was warned that if everyone lived like me, we would need 3.9 planets. Either shape up and clean the planet, or start looking for 2.9 other planets, folks.

Connecting to TREES?

TREES: (student-led group at PSR) Theological Roundtable on Ecological Ethics and Spirituality.

TREES, a student-based, inter-religious organization at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, seeks to raise awareness of the issues that surround the ecological demise of the earth. We focus on raising awareness at the Educational/Philosophical, Institutional/Physical-Structural, and the Communal/Bioregional levels. By raising environmental awareness, we hope to provide a grassroots catalyst for change towards a more sustainable way of life for all life on the planet. We actively promote the concept that "the environment is not just an issue among issues, but the context for all issues."

Renowned theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether has been serving as faculty mentor, but she's not based in the Bay Area any longer. Note their "Communal/Bioregional" component, which outreaches to religious communities for collaborative educational efforts, and links to resources.

Connecting to APEN?

APEN: the Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN seeks to empower low-income Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities to achieve environmental and social justice. APEN believes that the environment includes everything around us: where we live, work and play. And we strive to build grassroots organizations that will improve the health, well-being and political strength of our communities.

APEN currently works on three levels: Direct Organizing in local communities, building a Network of API organizations and working in multiracial Alliances to affect regional and national social change.

The direct organizing is at the center of our vision of environmental and social justice. Our two local San Francisco Bay Area projects are the 5-year old Laotian Organizing Project (LOP) in Richmond, which also houses the Asian Youth Advocates program for young women, and the recently launched Power in Asians Organizing (PAO) that works with a pan-Asian immigrant community in Oakland.