By Pam Moreside Do you know the size of your ecological footprint? There are many reasons to consider our lifestyle's effect on our environment both within our own homes and to our planet. One reason is that our rate of consumption is exceeding our earth's sustainability. In Oakland California an organization called Redefining Progress devised a method to calculate our ecological footprint by counting resources used with waste produced to determine the amount of land required to sustain each person. They found that 4.5 acres of biologically productive land is needed for each person. While some (1 comments)