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Student Footprints

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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mariodaffern

Hello, I'm Mario, I live in Dénia and I'm going to show you my carbon footprint per year, first at home 4545kg per year, second food 2395kg per year, third, purchases 133kg per year and finally transportation 489kg per year. What do you think I could do to reduce that percentage?

Nicolas -sjrstate

Hi, I’m Nicolas. I suggest trying for your home footprint to unplug electronics before turning yourself in for the night. For food, Having more local or seasonal dishes or buy groceries in bulk with reusable containers that can reduces the packaging waste associated with individually packaged items. For purchases, You can try repairing it instead of getting something new to replace it like a jacket or a bicycle. Finally your transportation,you can try walking for a change for closer places that you need to go and only drive If you think it's really far.

Mgreen28-SJRState

Hello Mario, my name is Mekennah! I see you already got some recommendations, but I wanted to throw in a couple more! for your home footprint, it is very easy to walk out of a room without turning off the light or shower a little extra longer because of stressful days. Trying to reduce those could really help lower your footprint. My footprint for food was a big one for me as well. What I figured might help me is trying my local farmers market and finding fruits and vegetables that are grown without a bunch of pesticides that are harmful to our environment. Lastly, the hardest one yet is transportation. It is so convenient to get in the car or on a plane and vacation or commute to work/school- however, maybe carpooling or minimizing vacation travel might help with that! Bet of luck!

Naokiwads

I don't know if this could help you, but many of my friends grow vegetables and raise animals so I have started buying their produce, eggs and meat to reduce my carbon footprint.

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