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 >
Science and the Enviroment
My footprint compared to other students appears to be overall average. My carbon footprint ended up being 12,005. The highest student footprint came in at a whopping 26,782. While the lowest was 3,628. This got me thinking about how our carbon footprints could all be so different if we appear to live the same type of lifestyle. Comparing this to Taylor Swift whose footprint was 8,293 I realized that my calculations are definitely off, considering I travel by car while she travels by jet. A car produces 192g of CO2 per mile while a jet produces 4.9 km per mile. Therefore I do not know my carbon footprint, but I can assure you that it is nowhere close to Taylor Swift's.