Wanted: bigger planet - Letters

Sierra, May-June, 2003 by Mike Weinberg

I was stunned by the results of your quiz "Are You Big Foot?" (January/February). Although I'm a carless vegan living in a green-redesigned home with my wife and daughter, my footprint was 6.5 acres, 2 acres more than the world's 4.5 biologically productive acres per person. Although my score was just 27 percent of the average U.S.

footprint of 24 acres, if everyone on Earth had my footprint, we would still need 1.44 planets!

Mike Weinberg
La Mesa, California