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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Taking More Than You Can Eat
Before I learned about my Carbon Footprint I would always waste food. Whether it was a third chicken wing or another bag of chips that I couldn't finish. Just this past year I started to become more aware of how much food I put on my plate. The way I look at it is if I'm still hungry after my first portion I can always go back for more. Now that I have learned about my Carbon Footprint I think that we should all start looking at our food this way. If people start to do this there will be a huge drop in the amount of perfectly good food that is wasted every day.