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 >
Bad Habits
A student's carbon footprint is mostly comprised of actions caused by bad habits. These habits appear in daily life, and the most common are leaving the lights on, taking long showers, sitting in their car with the engine idling, leaving their devices turned on, and not recycling properly. All of these habits are commonplace in many students' daily lives and go unchecked unless someone close to them knows just how bad these habits are. We as a society should be warning these students about how harmful these things are on a larger scale.
So like, it's kinda true that what we do every day adds up for our carbon footprint, right? But it's not like it's « all » our fault cause we're just being « bad » or whatever. It's also about stuff like if there's even good bus or trains around or like how our houses get power, and even how the stuff we buy is made. It's more like, the whole system needs to make it easier for us to do good stuff for the planet, instead of just saying we're the bad guys for like forgetting to turn off a light.





