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 >
Home energy
scary to think about how much carbon one person can put into the atmosphere.
Definitely, I think that if everyone could see their carbon footprint, it might inspire us to change our habits. It IS scary to see how much carbon we put out into the atmosphere, and we're the ones trying to be green! I think that if we showed more people this calculator they can see how much pollution they are causing and they might be inspired to be more conservative with their energy usage.