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 >
Transportation Decrease
I travel a lot. I live around a half hour from my school and also do a lot of traveling by plane, and because of this my transportation footprint was pretty big and made up most of my overall footprint. While I can't really stop my family from going on trips, I can start carpooling more often. I live to far from my school to take the bus so this would really help, and while I have carpooled in the past, I haven't in around a year, so I think that it could really help my overall footprint. Even just a few times a week would be really great for my (and I assume others who live rurally) overall footprint.