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 >
Plastic Water Bottles
According to the Pacific Institute in 2006, plastic water bottles produced more than 2.5 million tons of Carbon Dioxide during the manufacturing process! Earth as we know it is approaching a possible Global Warming Crisis and plastic water bottles are helping push our CO2 limit’s to uncharted territory. Having a personal water bottle will save around 167 plastic water bottles a year and if we all decided to make a small change in our life, think of the 2.5 millions tons of Carbon Dioxide we could be preventing. I encourage everyone to converse with their schools, family, and friends to help make this change towards the importance of personal water
bottles and help save our Earth.
http://pacinst.org/publication/bottled- … act-sheet/
https://www.banthebottle.net/bottled-water-facts/