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?
Student Footprints >
Impacts on carbon footprint
My name is Louise King. I live in Seattle Washington and my carbon footprint was about 11,060 kilograms. For my region this is just below average. I found it interesting that for all of my categories I was below average except one, transportation. For that category I was double the average and the reason for that was plane trips. I never realized they had such a large impact.