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 >
Carbon footprint
Reducing personal carbon footprint is difficult because sometimes there is not much you can do to reduce it like transportation because some people have no choice but to drive to their destination. For instance if a father has to drive his son to school in a different city and must meet a specific deadline. The average person typically spends just over 25 minutes in the car each way when traveling to work. This means that a typical commuter spends 50 minutes per day, 250 minutes per week, and around 12,000 minutes (or 200 hours) per year driving to and from work.
But you can use more transportation like bart, the bus, etc. which comments large amounts of people using less green house gasses