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?
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Student Footprints
I know that in Clarkstown High School North(New York, USA) is much lower carbon footprint than in the International School of Curitiba next to Sao Paulo,Brazil. CHS has 14052 kg of carbon and the average is 23189kg. In School of Curitiba the average carbon rate is 15779kg but ISC has 18748kg of carbon. For the Clarkstown school they had 133 people participate. For the school in Brazil only 35 people participate. These differences exist because looking though the data in transportation is much higher in numbers than Clarkstown High School. Clarsktown HS is located in NY so the buidlings aren't that far away from place to place, bit in Curitiba places are much farther away. Plus, most people in Curitiba use bus, car or train. Some other factors that can make the carbono rate go up in kg is food which is 3434 kg (average ±2358) in Curitiba. But in Clarkstown HS, the carbon rate is 2947 kg (average ±2118). Another thing is that for the Home section the carbon rate for Curitiba is 3225 kg (±3801) and in Clarkstown high it is 7067 kg (±14944). The difference for the Home section is 3851kg. For the Food section the difference is 487kg. And for the last and final difference is the average between the two schools is 1727kg.