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 >
creative ways to reduce your carbon footprint 2.0
One thing that I didn't realize is really beneficial to the atmosphere is eating vegetarian or vegan. I knew that being vegetarian or vegan is really good for us as humans but I never considered it had benefits on the environment as well. Not eating meat decreases land use and our carbon emissions.
If we were to have everyone vegan or vegetarian, invasive and dangerous species could possibly take over. Plus, we would have way many more animals then needed if we just let them roam. Not saying we SHOULD eat them, but it's good for us to eat animals, that's just how the chain works.