Human ecological footprint

Ecological footprint

The ecological footprint is a measure of ecological human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems.

Humanity needs what nature provides, but how do we know how much we’re using and how much we have to use?

The Ecological Footprint has emerged as the world’s premier measure of humanity’s demand on nature. It measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resource it consumes and to absorb its wastes, using prevailing technology.

By the years pass, the human have influenced all World’s ecosystems, and even the weather. We use petrol to produce gasoline or plastic. We take out coal to produce energy, and aluminium to take cans; and water to drink… but the most important is Co2 that we send to the air, it is caused by the burning of coal, petrol and gas. Another important influence in the Earth is the throwing of waste to the ground, it is also important to recycle. The cutting of trees is also another type to damage the different ecosystems.

Canadian ecological footprint

Canada is one of the countries with the largest ecological footprint per person:

	Year 2003	Year 2005
Canadian footprint	7.6	7.1
Classification	4th	7th

Personal opinion

People depend on the nature to survive.

If we are going to continue having good living conditions, we must be sure that nature’s productivity isn’t used more quickly than it can be renewed, and that waste isn't discharged more quickly than nature can absorb it.

Canada

English and French are the two oficials languages in Canada and the   currency  is the “Canadian dollar”.  

Size: 9,984,000 square kilometers; population: 34,984,000 inhabitants. 

Canada borders EE.UU and  Alaska. Among the riversthe ST.Lawrence and the Mackencie stand up. The Mackencie empties in the Arctic Ocean. Western Canada has many volcanoes most of them are in the Pacific Ocean.The Appalachian mountain range extends from Georgia in the southern United States through the Gaspé Peninsula and the Atlantic Provinces.

Pueyo de Jaca

·         El Pueyo de Jaca, is situated at an altitude of 1091 meters to the left of the river Gallego, tail Bubal Marsh, belongs to the region of Alto Gallego and the municipality of Panticosa.
Pueyo means a place at the top, hill or tower. For many centuries it was known as the Pueyo, in 1857 acquired an official place name "El Pueyo de Jaca"
Of note is the parish church of San Miguel (sixteenth century) which was later absorbed by another eighteenth century church, it has a single nave with side chapels. Concello mention the bridge over the river Caldara, along which the road was built in 1550, but has been rebuilt several times.

Lucia Martin, Sergio Muñoz y Blanca Urias

SAVE WATER

Water is a finite resource that must be preserved; it is a scarce and limited resource in many places and, even if you live in an area with an adequate amount of rainfall, energy is needed to process the water, to pump it, to heat it and to process it again.

Learn how to save water in six easy ways

Ávila

We live in Ávila, a city in Castilla y León. These are the most famous monuments of our city:
These are the walls, they are 9 kilometers long.

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San Vicente: it is a Romanesque basilica.






The cathedral is the first Gothic cathedral built in Spain.

Lara Sánchez, Diego Rodríguez and Aitor Villa.

Canada, human geography and a bit of history

Canada is a country with more than 33 million of inhabitants. It is located in   North America and it’s the second largest country in the world. The first inhabitants were people from Siberia who came across the Bering Strait, and later other people who arrived from Asia.  After the discovery of America, other European   explorers arrived to seek new lands. British and  French settlers arrived in North America and fought  to stay there. France established two colonies around 1600 BCE. Canada is to the north of the USA.  After several battles between France and England, the colonies were conquered by the British in the 18^th century CE. Canada fought peacefully for their freedom and thanks to a treaty signed by Queen Victoria, Canada became an independent, self-governing federation in 1867.

 

76% of the population lives in cities

Industries represent the 61% of the annual wealth, and the main economical activities are the transformation of raw materials, manufacturing of vehicles, petroleum products, pulp and nourishment. The most industrialized area is located at the East of the country. Canada has also very important forestry resources.

Javier Herrero y Sara Fernández