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 >
Student Footprint
Over the past few days, we learned about our carbon footprints and what causes them, mine was a little above average because of traveling. We learned how to lower our footprints and the main thing I could do is take more public transportation and fly less.
We also learned how global warming takes place with the charges of atoms, enabling things like heat to escape the earth. Places like the moon have much more volatile temperatures since they don't have an ozone layer, places humans couldn't live without protection.
Overall our carbon footprint is very important to track, without tracking it we wouldn't have any idea the impact we are having on the earth, animals and humans.