Discovering my carbon footprint was an eye-opening experience. I was shocked when I saw that the average carbon footprint for not only California but the U.S.A as a country is so high. It makes sense, seeing how rapidly and dramatically climate change is progressing, but it was still astounding to see. Few countries have a higher footprint than the US. I was honestly surprised by my own carbon footprint. I was worried it’d be higher, but I still hoped it’d be lower. Mine was 6,279kg. I’m hoping to bring that down one day. Does anyone have any advice on how to bring that footprint down, as a student? I'm thinking about trying to walk more places instead of being driven. I'm open to anything else that would make a bigger difference, all suggestions welcome!

I think that something everyone can do is cut down on spending money on unnecessary products, or they can buy locally. If you buy a lot of new things online, it can create a large carbon footprint from shipping across seas (because everything is made in China now). Also, you can eat less meat, because high protein diets require more livestock farming.

It is good that your carbon footprint is a lot lower than the U.S. average of about 9,500 kgs, but I have some ideas to lower your footprint even more. For one, you can make sure to always turn off the lights when you are not using them, since that probably is a big impact on your CO2 levels. Another thing you can do is unplugging your devices, like phones, tablets, etc, when they are fully charged, because it wastes electricity. A final thing you can do is recycling more things. Just throwing away recyclable things just wastes them, as they can be used again. Hope this helped