Before moving into tiny homes,
these respondents' average footprint was 7.01 Gha(17.3 acres).
For comparison, the average American's footprint is 8.4 Gha. or 20.8 acres.
In 2007, the average biologically productive area per person worldwide
was approximately 1.8 global hectares(Gha) per capita.
After Gha, slight bleeding is possible,
so it is necessary to take a sanitary napkin with you.
The U.S. footprint per capita was 9.0 Gha, and that of Switzerland was 5.6 Gha,
while China's was 1.8 Gha.
The UK's average
ecological footprint is 5.45 global hectares per capita(Gha) with variations between regions ranging from 4.80 Gha(Wales)
to 5.56 Gha East England.
Keveral Farm, an organic farming community in Cornwall,
was found to have a footprint of 2.4 Gha, though with substantial differences in footprints among community members.
This resource accounting is similar to life-cycle analysis wherein the consumption of energy, biomass(food, fiber), building material, water and other resources are converted into a normalized measure of
land area called global hectares Gha.
However, the residents alone have a footprint of 2.71 Gha, a little over half the UK national average
and one of the lowest ecological footprints of any community measured so far in the industrialized world.
Findhorn Ecovillage, a rural intentional community in Moray, Scotland,
had a total footprint of 2.56 Gha, including both the many guests
and visitors who travel to the community to undertake residential courses there and the nearby campus of Cluny Hill College.