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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My Carbon Footprint--The Impacts of Air Travel
I just measured my carbon footprint and was relieved that most of my results were below average in all categories. Something I noticed, however, was that while all of my other categories produced less that 700 kgs annually, my travel footprint was over 2000 kgs. My cars are electric and I hardly use anything else to travel, so I imagine most of this came from air travel--that is, the singular round trip flight I've taken in the past year. I knew air travel produced a lot of CO2, but that was even more than I thought. Are there cleaner ways to fly? Is that currently something that even exists?