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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Unplug your Devices
A lot of extra energy is being used everyday because of chargers and other devices that are plugged into outlets even when they're not in use. This causes a lot of extra energy and carbon dioxide to be released into our atmosphere and is a huge factor to our increase in greenhouse gasses and global warming. An easy and efficient way to slow down and stop global warming is to unplug all of your devices from outlets when they are not in use. If everyone did this, we could help to produce much less carbon dioxide and this could be the first step to saving our environment and all of Earth's species.