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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Wants or Needs
We all have something that we are interested in or wanted to have, but before you buy it, have you ever actually think though whether is this what you needs or is this just something that you want? Is this really one of your requirements in your life? Almost every product you by involves a huge amount of carbon footprint and it is a huge damage to the environment. So before you really spend your money on buying this product, think thought and really consider whether this is what you need? Instead of buying new products you can consider the 3ps (repair, reuse, and recycle) to reduce the amount of products you buy.