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 >
School's Excess Waste
Many students are forced to create more waste than necessary, we have many paper assignments and also now we use the computer in most schools in the U.S. these computers need to be charged every day, and when each class has usually around 30 computers, a lot of energy is being used by these classes, and most of the energy plants are not good for the environment. Most schools use a lot of energy, which can pollute if the sources of energy aren't reliable.