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 >
Reuse and Re-purpose.
There is a better way to not recycle something immediately. Before recycling something immediately, we can reuse the item/object. Yes, recycling is good to do, but some things can be reused over and over and over again. For example, water bottles. Before recycling them right after we are done with them, we can use them for another drink. Another example is paper. IF we think we are done with it, then we will probably recycle it because there isn’t anything else to use it for. But, we can still use the rest of the paper, because there is still a lot of it left. So, yes, there is a better way, like re-usage, before recycling immediately.