My Ecological Footprint

For my environmental biology class I was told to calculate my ecological footprint using this website: www.footprintnetwork.org/calculator. After logging onto the website, I followed some simple instructions and entered detailed information about my living style. After doing so, the following informational chart was then provided to me: 

Although somewhat depressing, I was inspired when I discovered that if everyone lived like me, we’d need 3-7 Planet Earths to provide enough resources. Also, services accounted for the largest part of my ecological footprint breakdown (54%). Through the “explore scenarios” option, I discovered that I could reduce my ecological footprint from 3-7 to 3-2 if I reduced the animal-products I ate by half, used less packaging products or purchased products that were made out of 100% post-consumer recycled content material, and if solar panels provided most of the electricity for my house. Although this isn’t a tremendous drop in resource uses, it’s definitely a good start! I look forward to trying to improve my environmental faults, and you too can look forward to improving your environmental friendly life by discovering your ecological footprint with the link above, just like I did. So here's the question: How can you reduce your ecological footprint?