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
My footprint was surprisingly higher than I expected, mostly because of air travel to the east coast for college visits, which took up basically all of my transportation since I bike everywhere. Everything else was below my regions average. This made me realize that I need to cut down in these random expenditures and not my normal schedule