Students from around the world calculated their class mean and standard deviations for their footprints and posted them on our world map.
Do you see differences across the globe? If so, why do you think those differences exist?
Did you use the calculator to try to reduce your footprint down to the average from a citizen of another country? What changes would you have to make to lower your footprint in this way? Are you going to try and take some of these actions in your daily life?
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Ways to reduce our carbon footprint by making smarter traveling decisions
One way that we can reduce our carbon footprint is to find new more resourceful ways to travel instead of using cars, which produce gasses that break down our ozone layer. If people began to use the Bart and AC transit more and possibly bike or walk to close destination instead of driving, than all together we can reduce our carbon footprint and save Earth and the ozone layer which protects us.