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 >
Carbon footprint from California
My carbon footprint is well above my state wide (California) and nationwide average. I produce around 2500 kg per year, I think my footprint is so high because of all the air travel I do. All of the other sections of my footprint are at average or a little bit above but transportation is extremely high for me. Some things that I can do to change this are to try and travel less or try to ride buses and trains instead of air travel. I can also change how much food I eat and how much meat I consume. Overall, there are many things I can do to lower my carbon footprint and the one I should work on the most would be transportation and air travel.