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Calculate your personal Ecological Footprint by taking the quiz on the Web site www.myfootprint.org. After answering 15 easy questions (categories include food, transportation, goods and services, and housing), you’ll get an estimate of how much land and water you need to support your lifestyle. Then, you can compare your Ecological Footprint to what the planet can sustain.

Redefining Progress, a non-profit non-partisan scientifically-based organization, bases the personal footprint on national consumption averages. While not highly detailed or flexible enough to account for all lifestyles and circumstances, it should give you an idea of your Footprint relative to other people in the country where you live.

Adjusting your entries or playing with the “Reduce Your Footprint” calculator will show how lifestyle changes affect the Footprint size. Enter simple goals for your life on the Action Calculator (such as a pledge to eat less meat) and find out how many acres of land you could save just by implementing that goal.

Post your goals in a place where you can see and review them every day.

For more information about Linda Mason Hunter and her work, visit www.hunterink.com.