about the app
Lighter Footprint is designed to help people build better habits—for themselves, and the planet.
How It Works
Whether it be how happy we feel or our impact on the planet, the things we do everyday matter. But sometimes, the better choice isn't clear. What's worse: having steak every night or driving to work every morning? What's better: buying local or being vegan?
The Lighter Footprint app helps you make changes that improve your life, and the planet. Backed by the latest scientific data, see how little habits can make a big difference.
“Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.”
—gretchen rubin, better than before
App Features
quiz
Complete a fun, ten minute quiz that helps set your baseline ecological footprint and target, as well as clarify what matters to you.
Plan
The app will prompt you to create a plan that will help you reduce your footprint and reach your ‘% lighter’ target.
Track
With your plan created you’ll be able to track your progress. We’ll also provide helpful tips to help you reach your target and celebrate your successes along the way.
Community
With the app’s group features, join groups with likeminded individuals and participate in challenges to reduce your footprint.
Who It’s For
BC residents
The Lighter Footprint app can help you live a healthy, happy life, in ways that are tailored to you, and where you live.
companies
The app helps companies that value sustainability to incorporate positive green habits into their workplace culture.
organizations
Groups passionate about the environment can use the app in their ecological footprint reduction programs.
schools
The Lighter Footprint app is designed to be fun, engaging, and easy to use, making it an ideal teaching tool.
Why It Matters
We know our habits have ripple effects, but those ripples aren’t always clear. By showing exactly how our actions ripple out, we can design our habits to benefit ourselves and the planet.
By taking a light-hearted yet evidence-based approach to ecological impact, the Lighter Footprint app helps people chose from a dizzying array of options, empowering communities across BC.
“Learning to choose is hard… Learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still.”
—Barry Schwartz, the paradox of choice
Background
The Lighter Footprint App draws on the ecoCity Footprint Tool data model. Created by Dr. Jennie Moore, Director, Institute Sustainability, BCIT, as part of her PhD, under the supervision of Dr. William Rees, founder of the ecological footprint concept, the Tool was used by the City of Vancouver to inform its ground-breaking Greenest City Action
Plan (2011 and 2020), and has since been tested in municipalities in Canada and internationally. The Lighter Footprint App was conceptualized by Anna Bohn of Etho Studio, and has been built for the public good in partnership with BCIT. It is generously supported by REFBC, BCIT, Vancity, and ECO Canada.
Thank You
This project is supported by PhD research undertaken by Dr. Jennie Moore and generous funding from BCIT, REFBC, Vancity, and ECO Canada.
This project is also made possible by the in-kind contributions of One Earth.
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