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 >
Palo Alto Student Footprint
The main reason my carbon footprint (12,227) was so high was because of the large amount of travel I do. I think that from now on, I will take more public transport, but I don't see a reduction of air travel in the recent future, just because my family is very into travelling. An idea this gave me that I had never thought of was to bring my own tupperware to restaurants so that I don't waste materials on to-go. I'll probably try this, as it's easy and it makes sense.