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 >
My Carbon Footprint - Vincent Imbrogno (Mooresville, NC, USA)
Hi, My name is Vincent Imbrogno and I am a Junior at Mooresville Senior High School. Before I started working on this project, I had no idea how much I contributed to the yearly output of pollution in the atmosphere. In fact, I didn't give it much thought at all. Discovering what my carbon footprint was turned out to be completely eye opening to me. Coming into this project, I thought I would be normal or below average in some areas for my carbon footprint. I found out that the opposite was true. Below is my total yearly output:
Transportation - 27,780 kgs.
Home - 11,531 kgs.
Food - 4,158 kgs.
Purchases - 140 kgs.
Total - 43,609 kgs.
These numbers are almost triple of what the average carbon footprint is in my region. (15,918 kgs.) The reason for my footprint being so high is the amount of traveling I have done in the past year. Calling this past year a busy one would be an understatement. Traveling for sports competitions across North Carolina and across the country make up the bulk of my footprint. My travels have brought me to South Florida; Washington D.C .; Buffalo, New York; and Detroit, Michigan. This year has been a true anomaly for me as I don't generally travel so much. I think, along with finding several smaller ways to reduce my footprint at home, my footprint will decrease tremendously in size next year.