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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Science and the Enviroment
Over that last 3 days I have learned how much I have been contributing to the Earth's global warming issue. I have learned that by traveling as much as I do, on busses and planes, I am producing mass amount of carbon. I learned this information when doing the assignment "Calculating Carbon Footprint". I have learned that when producing CO2 it fluctuates to obsorb infrared heat keeping heat inside the atmosphere and heating up the planet.