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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Throwing food away at school
We produce so much waste at school people don’t eat their food and they just throw it away. Sometimes they don’t even composter which is bad for the environment because it just goes to waste and created CO2 emissions.
I certainly agree with your statement. A lot of times, school lunches are thrown away, simply because students don't finish them. That could happen for a lot of reasons. For example, portions might be overly large. Another reason might be because the food isn't appetizing. We could help with this problem by introducing petitions which question what students would eat. If food gets thrown away even after all of that, I'd recommend that schools introduce composters.