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 >
My carbon footprint
Before calculating, I was expecting to have a bigger footprint in the home section, considering that's where I spend most of the time, but what blew me away was the fact that transportation accounted for over a third of my total carbon footprint, since I mostly go around the city on foot or by bicycle and only get in a car for longer distances. What I'm trying to get at is that even though we keep hearing about ways to reduce our home carbon footprint, we don't realize or hear about how big of a factor transportation is as well, and we should change that.