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 - Jaca07
When I did the my carbon footprint test, the results said that I used 9200kgs, which is slightly below the average of around 9,700. Home, food, and purchases were all much lower than the averages as when I took the test I noticed that I actually don't make that much of an impact on my carbon footprint. But in the transportation section I exceeded the average by a lot. I was over 5,000 kg but this wasn't super surprising as I drive to school every day and I have flown in a few plane flights which emits large amounts of carbon dioxide. Looking at the average I noticed that I was slightly below which isn't super surprising as I don't do anything that takes up too much energy. When reading an article I saw that most people have transportation issues as just one plane flight took up more energy than all of my home carbon emmisions