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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Reducing Carbon Footprint
I believe that if we reduce the amount of transportation around the world then we can greatly reduce the our carbon footprint. Where I live, the average carbon footprint is 9,727 kgs per capita and if we just half the transportation we would have 8,444 kgs per capita, reducing the average by over 1000. Can you list some ideas as to how we could do that?